Sir Sean Connery at 85: Showbiz pals pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star
Sean Connery as James Bond AS Sir Sean Connery reaches his 85th birthday, friends, actors and directors have paid tribute to Scotland’s greatest movie star. Sir Jackie Stewart, Pierce Brosnan, Laurence Fishburne and George Lucas are among big names in a Scotland documentary on the ultimate James Bond’s life and career. The film features archive interviews with Connery spanning 50 years until his retirement from acting in 2003. Connery will turn 85 on August 25 but it was in 1962 that he redefined the action hero with a role that catapulted him to global superstardom. He almost didn’t get the part as Bond in Dr No because 007 author Ian Fleming was an Eton-educated snob. Connery – who starred in seven Bond films – said: “Fleming had the right of who would play the part or not. “A terrible snob, you know, but he went to Eton and I think that explains quite a bit of that side of him … “In the main, he wanted someon...