Sean Connery – a life in pictures

A portrait of Sir Sean Connery Photograph: Cynthia Gould/REX/Shutterstock

Connery as a young boy. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

As a teenager. Photograph: Rex Features

With wrestler Chopper Howlett. Photograph: David P Webster/Rex/Shutterstock

Van Johnson, Sean Connery and Martine Carol battle it out in a fight scene from Action of the Tiger (1957), directed by Terence Young. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

With Lana Turner in Another Time, Another Place (1958). Photograph: Cinetext/Paramount/Allstar

A scene from the film Hell Drivers in which Connery (‘Johnny’), Patrick McGoohan (‘Red’) and Sid James (‘Dusty’) laugh at Stanley Baker (‘Tom’) as he struggles on the floor. Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

As James Bond for Dr No (1962). Photograph: United Artists/Sportsphoto/Allstar

With Ursula Andress in Dr No. Photograph: Cinetext/United Artists/Allstar

Connery and Bond writer Ian Fleming on the set of Goldfinger in 1964. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

With Lois Maxwell in From Russia With Love (1963). Photograph: The Kobal Collection

Filming From Russia With Love with Daniela Bianchi in 1963. Photograph: Rex Features

Leaning on an Aston Martin DB5 as Bond in Goldfinger (1964). Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Connery And Honor Blackman during the filming of Goldfinger. Photograph: John Knoote/Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock

With Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger. Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Golfing in Goldfinger. Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Bantering with Gert Fröbe in Goldfinger. Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Connery with his then wife Diane Cilento and family. Photograph: Rex Features

Connery with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Marnie in 1964.
Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar

As James Bond again in Thunderball (1965). Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features

With an assortment of ‘Bond girls’ in Thunderball. Photograph: United Artists/Allstar

With Jill St John in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever (1971). Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

As James Bond in You Only Live Twice (1967). Photograph: United Artists/Allstar

Taking a dip in You Only Live Twice. Photograph: United Artists/Allstar

A more strenuous episode of You Only Live Twice. Photograph: United Artists/Allstar

With Brigitte Bardot in Shalako (1968). Photograph: Cinetext /Allstar

Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon and director Sidney Lumet on the set of The Anderson Tapes (1971). Photograph: Cannon\Everett / Rex Features

As James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

In Zardoz (1974). Photograph: 20 Century Fox/Allstar/Cinetext

Alongside Michael Caine in John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar Photograph: Columbia/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

Starring as Robin Hood, with Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, in Robin And Marian (1976).
Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features

With Gene Hackman, Dirk Bogarde and Ryan O’Neal in A Bridge Too Far (1977). Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar

Alongside Christian Slater in The Name of the Rose (1986).
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Looking into Christopher Lambert’s eyes in Highlander (1986). Photograph: EMI/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Making up a fearsome foursome with Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner and Charles Martin Smith in The Untouchables (1987).
Photograph: Everett / Rex Features Photograph: c.Paramount/Everett / Rex Features

With the Oscar for best supporting actor The Untouchables earned him.
Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features

With fellow Brits Michael Caine and Roger Moore at the Oscars in Los Angeles in 1989. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

Talking to Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery on the set of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
Photograph: Everett / Rex Features Photograph: Paramount/Everett / Rex Features

The Hunt For Red October (1990).
Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

With Michelle Pfeiffer in 1990’s The Russia House. Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features

Opposite Meg Ryan in The Presidio (1988).
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext

In Medicine Man (1992) with Lorraine Bracco. Photograph: Buena Vista/Allstar/Cinetext

Posing for photographers in a photocall for his film Entrapment at the Cannes film festival in 1999. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

With politician Alex Salmond for an SNP rally at the EICC, Edinburgh in 1999. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Connery’s face projected onto the rocks beneath Edinburgh castle to mark the opening of the Edinburgh film festival. Photograph: Simon Grosset/PA

Connery during a day that saw him campaign for the SNP and open a theatre – the Byre theatre, St Andrews – in 2001. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

With his wife, Micheline, at the Marrakech film festival in 2004. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features

As Allan Quatermain, alongside Tony Curran as The Invisible Man, Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray and Naseeruddin Shah as Captain Nemo, in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). Photograph: Twentieth Century Fox

Connery after receiving his lifetime achievement award during the European film awards 2005 in Berlin. Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images