However, the Australian actor’s tenure lasted only for a single film, and Connery was lured back for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971 with an enormous fee.Ĭlip: 007 makes his introduction in Dr NoĬonnery refused to return again – though he did participate in Never Say Never Again, the “unofficial” Bond film released in 1983 that resulted from a legal battle undertaken by the Thunderball co-writer Kevin McClory, again with a huge fee. However, his increasing disenchantment at playing 007 saw him drop out of the next Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and he was replaced by George Lazenby. His dramatically increased star status also allowed him to take films outside the series, notably the psychological thriller Marnie, for Alfred Hitchcock, and The Hill, a military-prison drama directed by Sidney Lumet. Released in 1962, it was a hit in Britain, but also did well commercially in the US.Ĭonnery went on to appear in four more Bond films in succession, between 19: From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. Despite initial misgivings, Dr No was a huge success, not least because it had been produced, cautiously, on a comparatively low budget. Reportedly at the insistence of producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli’s wife, Dana, Connery got the role in Dr No over better known actors due to his “sex appeal”.
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His film profile increased as a result, with support roles in Hell Drivers, a lorry-driving thriller starring Stanley Baker, and Action of the Tiger, directed by Terence Young, with whom Connery would later reunite on Dr No.Ĭonnery landed a substantial role in the war-set melodrama Another Time, Another Place in 1957 opposite Lana Turner, then a huge Hollywood star in a widely retold anecdote, he reportedly came to blows with Turner’s lover, the notorious gangster Johnny Stompanato, after the latter suspected the actors were having an affair.īut it was his casting, at the age of 30, in the first film adapted from Ian Fleming’s series of James Bond novels that cemented his screen status.
However it was a BBC version of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight that provided his breakthrough lead role, playing a boxer facing the end of his career in the ring. His first credited film role arrived in 1957, playing a hoodlum in the 1957 British thriller No Road Back.
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His acting career then took off: first in rep theatre and then small roles in TV shows, such as Dixon of Dock Green and The Jack Benny Program. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
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