Sean Connery - The Greatest Bond of Them All?

Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1930. After competing in the 1953 Mr. Universe competition, he was encouraged to go into acting, he landed parts in a BBC production of Anna Karenina and in the 1959 film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People. . After finishing with the Bond franchise he starred mainly in epic productions with ensemble casts with the exception of John Houston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He began acting in more serious roles following the successful In the Name of the Rose (1986), landing an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables (1987). During the late 1980s and 1990s he starred in blockbusters including Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Rock (1996) and Entrapment (1999). In more recent years he was involved in several critical and box-office disappointments such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) but he received very positive reviews for his role in Finding Forrester (2000). He is now retired from making movies, in 2008 he released his auto-biography called Being a Scot. He was married to Australian-born actress Diane Client o from 1962 to 1973, they have one son, Jason Connery.