James Bond, The Name of the Rose and Indiana Jones: Sean Connery's Unforgettable Roles

Sean Connery died on Saturday at the age of 90 after a long film career.

The Scottish actor was the first to play the mythical character of James Blond, a character from which he will also have difficulty in detaching himself.

James Bond, six times

In 1962, the James Bond myth was born with

o.

To embody his character, the novelist Ian Flemming had rather thought of Cary Grant.

Faced with the divine Ursula Andress, he first judges Sean Connery "too frustrated".

But he will change his mind quickly.

With

by Terence Young (1963) and

by Guy Hamilton (1964), Sean Connery definitively establishes the myth 007, the British secret agent who elegantly mixes machismo, desire to do battle and good manners.

Then came

(1965) by Terence Young,

(1967) by Lewis Gilbert,

(1971) by Guy Hamilton and finally the unofficial

(1983) by Irvin Kershner where Aged James Bond is sent for treatment by his superior.

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1964: No spring for Marnie

In one of Alfred Hitchcock's most cruel films, Sean Connery, who thus escapes his character from 007, plays a wealthy editor who falls in love with a young kleptomaniac and frigid secretary (Tippie Hedren).

The master of suspense seems fascinated by Sean Connery and his almost caricatured manhood, his obsessive way of protecting the one who will become his wife and the discovery of all his psychoses which frighten and excite him.

1975: The man who wanted to be king

In the 1880s, two former British officers met Rudyard Kipling and offered to take Kafiristan, a mythical country where no white had entered since Alexander the Great.

John Huston delivers a thrilling adventure film with a passionate and mystical Sean Connery and a pragmatic Michael Caine.

1986: the name of the rose

Sean Connery, then in a period of disgrace, was far from being Jean-Jacques Annaud's first choice to play the main role of monk Guillaume de Baskerville.

But the French director says he had "goose bumps" when the Scotsman started to read the script and he hires him against the advice of his agent who calls him "old-fashioned".

Umberto Eco, the Italian author of The

, had the same apprehensions.

"What you did the best is what I feared the most. Sean Connery is wonderful," he said to Jean-Jacques Annaud.

The role earned the Scotch a Bafta for Best Actor.

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1987: The Incorruptibles

Brian De Palma's Prohibition-Era Underworld Masterpiece to Earn Oscar and Golden Globe for Sean Connery (Best Supporting Actor) and the title "Worst Movie Accent Ever ".

Sean Connery, an old cop who knows the world of thugs well, steals the show from young Kevin Costner against the great Robert de Niro in unassailable Al Capone.

1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In 1989, Steven Spielberg had the idea to reunite Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in a formidable duo of actors which would make a triumph.

Sean Connery plays with malice and elegance a bizarre medievalist mysteriously disappeared that his son, the adventurer Indiana Jones, will try to find.

In 2008, when Sean Connery had been retired for five years, he refused to replay his role in the fourth installment of the series

, deeming it too anecdotal.