Sean Connery, 64 films and almost as many cult roles -

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  • Sean Connery died on Saturday at the age of 90, his family announced.

  • The actor, known worldwide for having been the first to play James Bond in the cinema, has appeared in more than sixty films.

  • We take a look back at the five films that marked his career on the big screen.

“My name is Bond.

James Bond.

It is Sean Connery who pronounces these words for the first time in the cinema.

But he wasn't just the world's most famous spy.

Over the course of his fifty year career, the actor, who died at the age of 90, has diluted his Scottish accent through the 64 films in which he has appeared.

No Spring for Marnie

(1964)

In one of Alfred Hitchcock's most cruel films, Sean Connery - who thus escapes his character in 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 virility, his obsessive way of protecting the one who will become his wife and the discovery of all his psychoses that frighten and excite him.

The Name of the Rose

(1986)

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 began to read the script and he hires him against the advice of his agent who calls him "old nerd".

Umberto Eco, the Italian author of The

Name of the Rose

, had the same apprehensions.

“What you did best was 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.

The Untouchables

(1988)

Brian De Palma's masterpiece on the Prohibition-era Underworld will earn Sean Connery an Oscar and Golden Globe (Best Supporting Actor) and the title of "Worst Movie Accent of All. time.

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

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

(1989)

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

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

, deeming it too anecdotal.

Chasing Red October

(1990)

With his natural elegance and relentless charisma, Sean Connery was also Captain Marko Ramius, commander of the Red October.

The action film, released in 1990, was the film adaptation of the novel by Tom Clancy, published in 1984. In this feature film which has become cult, it is not Sean Connery who was to slip into the shoes of the commander. , but Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Even to play a veteran of the Soviet Navy, the actor kept his Scottish accent, so dear to his heart.

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