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From there, the story was picked up by a South African newspaper, then bounced over to Europe, where a French radio station began beaming the obit to half the continent. My wife told her, 'Dead? Oh, no. He's just out playing golf. In the immortal words of Ian Fleming, you only live twice — and Connery's making the most of it. Since his exaggerated demise more than a year ago, he's completed three films back- to-back, playing a medieval king, a fire-breathing terror, and-in the biggest stretch of the bunch — a pacifist Harvard Law School professor.

Opening nationwide this week is Just Cause , in which Connery stars as Paul Armstrong, an aging attorney who returns to the courtroom for the first time in 25 years to save a death-row inmate from the electric chair. Then, next year, he lends his voice to the big-budget Dragonheart , speaking for the Jurassic -style computer-generated featured creature, with Dennis Quaid costarring as the last dragon slayer. It was like pushing a quart into a pint bottle.

But when you find something you want to do, you do it. Unlike other British actors of similar vintage — Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole — Connery has managed to maintain his status as a top-dollar A-list movie star even as he approaches the brink of Social Security eligibility. Much more impressive, he's kept up his credentials as an international sex symbol.

God, yes," says Ormond. Then you meet him, and he has this very powerful presence. He's totally in command. But he's also very gentle. Connery's character in Just Cause is a long way from the martini-sipping secret agent of his youth. An anti-capital punishment intellectual, he doesn't even throw his first punch until the film's final reel. Instead, the movie gets its testosterone from Laurence Fishburne, who plays a semi-corrupt Southern cop, and Blair Underwood, who plays the accused killer Connery defends.

There's also Kate Capshaw as Connery's wife and Ed Harris as an imprisoned serial killer who's so over-the-top nutty he'd give Hannibal Lecter the heebie-jeebies. For an actor whose early career was so ferociously physical — Connery was once a Mr. Universe contestant — you'd think the transition to Man of a Certain Age would have been a bumpy one. His portrayal of Bond owed much to the tutelage of Young.

He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat. Dr No was a big hit and, although the following films became increasingly packed with technical wizardry, it immediately established the successful recipe of sex, violence and campy humour that remained virtually unchanged for decades to come. The ingredients were exotic Technicolored locations, beautiful mostly treacherous women, an evil genius who wants to control the world and spectacular stunts.

And so he was, and thereafter in a string of unstoppable box-office successes. However, it is doubtful whether the Bond pictures would have become so durable without the kickstart that Connery gave the series. For the first time throughout the world, mass audiences were exposed to a type of cinema that relates neither to life nor to any romantic tradition but only to other films and always by sending them up. In the last of these, Bond is given a book called Instant Japanese by Miss Moneypenny before being sent to the far east.

Connery refused to be typecast, taking roles in several non-Bond films during the same period. Though both stars of the latter film were good, they were in roles obviously tailor-made for Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. In complete contrast to anything he had done before, Connery played the mutinous inmate of a British military prison camp in north Africa in The Hill , the first of five films he made with Sidney Lumet.

He also gave a wonderfully eccentric performance as a bohemian poet in A Fine Madness Connery directed The Bowler and the Bunnet , a short documentary for STV about how Clydeside shipyard bosses attempted to create a closer relationship with the workers, and in The Molly Maguires , he played a rebellious coalminer in 19th-century Pennsylvania. Connery died on Oct. He was Earlier this month, it was reported that the actor's ashes were to be scattered in his home country of Scotland.

Roquebrune, who was with Connery when he died in his sleep at his home at Lyford Cay, Bahamas, also confirmed that the actor would be cremated at a private service in the Caribbean island.

ET Secure IT. Panache Tech and Gadgets. Panache People City Life. ET Magazine. Sean Connery's cause of death revealed, actor passed away in sleep due to respiratory failure.

Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. AP Sean Connery died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia as well as atrial fibrillation.