Sean Connery turns 90: Why he was the greatest James Bond of all – 9TheFIX

Sean Connery helped redefine movie stardom thanks to his role as James Bond, an impossibly suave super-spy with a taste for martinis that were shaken, not stirred. In films like Dr. No, Goldfinger, and You Only Live Twice, the Scottish actor created a template for a fresh and exciting action hero, one whose womanising, hard-drinking ways and penchant to solve any dispute with the barrel of a Walther PPK presaged a new and more permissive era of on-screen sex and violence.
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