History Creator / SeanConnery

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* PrematurelyBald: Connery started losing his hair at age 21. He wore a toupee in his Film/JamesBond flicks.

* IAmNotSpock: He got swept up in Bond-mania and realized that the role was taking over his career (even though he did do other films while playing Bond) and that led to his decision to retire from that role. [[TenMinuteRetirement Even if he came back to it. Twice]]. He was successful in showing what else he could do for the rest of his long career in a number of very different roles.
** According to longtime friend Creator/MichaelCaine, James Bond was the one thing you learned to ''never'' talk about in his presence, as it upset him a great deal that many people only thought of him in that role.

* PlayingAgainstType: Often cast as tough cunning heroes (and later wise mentors), Connery goes in the opposite direction with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' where he plays a bumbling, tweedy, mildly absent minded professor not prepared for his son's more adventurous escapades. And he is absolutely '''HILARIOUS''' in the film.

Had a dishtinctive way of shpeaking that everyone on airth believed they can imitate, although Creator/EddieIzzard (and reportedly Creator/TonyCurran) ish particularly good at it.

* FakeNationality: Provides the trope image for a reason. Connery's list of foreign roles include [[Film/TheUntouchables American]] (particularly Irish-American), [[Film/TheHuntForRedOctober Soviet Lithuanian]], [[Film/JamesBond English]], [[Film/{{Highlander}} Egyptian-Spanish]], [[Film/TheWindAndTheLion Arab-Berber]], etc. In fact, the only explicitly Scottish role that he's played was Sir Billi in the animated film of the same name.

* ''Film/{{Outland}}'' (1981) - Marshal William T. O'Niel

* BadassBaritone: His commanding voice combined with his famous accent gave him one of the most famous and recognizable voices in pop culture, fitting for James Bond. He backed it up with experience in martial arts (he was a black belt in Kyokushin Karate) and doing action films even in his sixties.

His life took an iconic turn as the first actor to portray Franchise/JamesBond on the big screen, one of many in a long line of lead roles that he would play over the course of his career. A former milkman, brick layer, truck driver and [[UsefulNotes/{{Bodybuilding}} bodybuilder]] (back in the days when that meant 'big and athletic' rather than 'steroid-fuelled and vein-covered') notable for [[CarpetOfVirility his impressive body hair]], effortless masculinity and unique variation on the Scottish accent, Connery's [[EvenTheGuysWantHim sex-symbol]] status proved [[SilverFox surprisingly durable despite the ravages of time]], the early onset of baldness (he wore a toupee to play Bond - and reputedly wanted to go without for ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''), and occasional press stories of misogyny on his part notwithstanding.

** ''Film/{{TheHill}}'' (1965)

** He turned down both the roles of Gandalf in Creator/PeterJackson's adaptation of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the role of Albus Dumbledore in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series. Madnessh!
** He also turned down the role of the Architect in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. He said that both the Matrix and ''Lord of the Rings'' scripts made absolutely no sense to him when he read them. This gets weirder when you consider the film he did instead was ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''.

** Was considered for the voice of Professor Hale in the English dub of ''Anime/Pokemon3'', but turned it down (by which point the producers decided that celebrity voices would distract from the appeal of the franchise's world-building).
** Connery turned down an appearance in Indiana Jones 4 stating "Retirement is just too much damned fun."

* BadassBaritone: His commanding voice combined with his famous accent gave him one of the most famous and recognizable voices in pop culture. He backed it up with experience in martial arts (he was a black belt in Kyokushin Karate) and doing action films even in his sixties.

After starring as Allan Quartermain in the... [[BrokenBase some would say polarizing]] ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' movie, Connery retired from acting. Some suggest that these facts are related, that the film was so terrible that he just gave up. He steadfastly refused to come out of retirement, including refusing a cameo in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''. The only exceptions were a RoleReprise for the 2005 LicensedGame ''VideoGame/DoubleOhSevenFromRussiaWithLove'' and the voice of the title character in the low-budged Scottish animated film ''WesternAnimation/SirBilli'' (the [[UncannyValley less said of which]], the better). His final role was narrating the 2012 documentary ''Ever to Excel'' about the history of St Andrews University in Scotland.

* ''Film/TheAvengers1998'' (1998) - Sir August de Wynter

* ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' (1987) - Jimmy Malone; Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor

* ''Film/TheUntouchables'' (1987) - Jimmy Malone; Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor

Connery was married to the late Australian actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973, and had one son with her, actor Jason Connery. The marriage did not end well, to put it nicely. Following this failed marriage and her own faltering career as an actress, Cilento said some ''very nasty'' things about Connery in her later years, claims and accusations that Connery himself vehemently denied. Connery was married to Frenchwoman Micheline Roquebrune from 1975 until his death.

* {{Trope Namer|s}}: For SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou and SugarWiki/RuleOfSeanConnery.