# RIP Sean Connery **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 31, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401 "2020-10-31T12:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/21 "2020-10-31T15:42:39Z")
Suck it, 2020. Suck it long, and suck it hard. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/22 "2020-10-31T15:48:49Z")
He’s outlived by Trebek! R.I.P. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/23 "2020-10-31T16:28:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh damn. He was THE best Bond. Not to mention [Zardoz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz). Yes, I know his name — insofar as he had a name — was Zed. However you cut it, nobody could sport red diapers like Sir Sean. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/24 "2020-10-31T16:50:41Z")
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: Alan Rickman = great Morgan Freeman = great Mary LongLastName = great Kevin CostCo = meh The movie’s almost over, everybody tries their darnedest, but it’s nothing I need to see again. What? At the last second? King Richard the Lionheart? IT’S CONNERY TO SAVE THE DAY!! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/25 "2020-10-31T17:01:11Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I wish Connery’s last movie in the US had not been _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,_ Actually, I thought it an appropriate swan song, and thought he might have intended it that way. The movie, while not a good interpretation of Moore’s graphic novel (virtually none of the movie adaptations are), still revered the concept. At the end a (non-drug-addicted) Allan Quatermain, played by Connery, hands the mantle over to the up-and-rising Tom Sawyer\*, just as Connery was handing over the Action Hero mantle to younger stars. Connery was in a lot of other film roles, several of them excellent. He was supposed to get the very last line in Richard Williams’ beleaguered animation masterpiece **The Thief and the Cobbler**. According to the Wikipedia page on this, Connery reportedly never showed up to record his line. But on the re-assembled fan version someone who sounds an awful lot like him does speak the line. > **[The Thief and the Cobbler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_and_the_Cobbler)** > > The Thief and the Cobbler is a 1993 unfinished animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Richard Williams, who intended it to be his magnum opus and a milestone in the animated medium. Originally devised in the 1960s, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades due to independent funding and ambitiously complex animation. It was finally placed into full production in 1989 when Warner Bros. agreed to finance and distribute the film after his successful animation direct... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yZibUpH-AME/maxresdefault.jpg "The Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled Cut Mark 4 Pt. 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZibUpH-AME) - As I said, definitely not Moore, but someone who at least worked seriously with the concept. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/26 "2020-10-31T17:04:19Z")
You just reminded me of something. My grandmother wanted to see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves so my sister and I took her to the theater. She loved Sean Connery but we didn’t tell her he was in the movie. When Connery showed up on the screen Gran blurted out “Oh! It’s Sean Connery!” Probably louder than she meant to… but the whole theater laughed. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/27 "2020-10-31T17:07:29Z")
Gran _rocks_! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/28 "2020-10-31T17:11:35Z")
The best Bond and unbeatable in The Man Who Would Be King. One presumes he had urgent business in the south. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/29 "2020-10-31T17:15:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Huge loss, loved him. > > Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was an amazing performance for him. The gag was that Indiana Jones Dad is the “James Bond guy”, but that he is the exact opposite of James Bond. While a cute premise, Connery’s delivery and performance made the role my favorite of his. > > [Basically this scene and its aftermath.](https://youtu.be/VbUlktBPQps?t=193) He goes on to get the best line in the movie (which, apparently, was ad-libbed by Connery). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/30 "2020-10-31T17:32:59Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > He goes on to get the best line in the movie (which, apparently, was ad-libbed by Connery). “Look at what you did! I can’t believe what you did!” is a line my wife and I quote all the time. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/31 "2020-10-31T17:34:54Z")
Shite! 😒 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/32 "2020-10-31T17:36:11Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “That’s the last of them Peachy, no more gods to burn.” I love that movie, “The Man Who Would Be King”. Rest in Peace, Sean Connery. Thank you for entertaining us. Thank you for showing us, Now _ **THAT’S** _ the Chicago way. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/33 "2020-10-31T17:40:52Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _The Man Who Would Be King_ was a favorite of mine. Somewhere, Moneypenny is weeping. A favorite of mine too. But really? Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) is happy now. She’s not weeping, she and James Bond are sleeping together. Finally. And forever. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/34 "2020-10-31T17:49:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Actually, I thought it an appropriate swan song, and thought he might have intended it that way. The movie, while not a good interpretation of Moore’s graphic novel (virtually none of the movie adaptations are), still revered the concept. Connery starred in a movie a few years before this, _Finding Forrester,_ where he passes the mantle of writer to his protege and friend, Jamal. It was a much better movie than _The League of Extraordinary Gentleman_ and a movie I imagine Connery would much rather be remembered for. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/35 "2020-10-31T17:50:54Z")
I saw an ‘RIP Sean Connery’ meme this morning – with a picture of George Lazenby. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/36 "2020-10-31T18:49:43Z")
Great job in Indiana Jones #3 , very good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/37 "2020-10-31T19:15:06Z")
An early and poorly timed effort by Connery was the comedy **A Fine Madness** with Joanne Woodward. It was in 1966, while he was still doing Bond movies and I don’t think audiences saw him as a comedic actor. It’s a fun little film about a frustrated poet who works as a janitor. There’s a cameo by Sue Ane Langdon as a sexy secretary. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/38 "2020-10-31T19:22:40Z")
In the same way that a truly great narrator can make a piece-of-shit audiobook _totally_ worth listening to … there were a couple of actors in whom I’d see anything, and who would basically never disappoint even if they couldn’t totally redeem the film. For me … first to come to mind are Jack Nicholson and Connery. And “The Rock” was, for years, the only DVD my wife and I owned. Total and complete guilty pleasure material. Yeah. Thanks for countless hours of truly solid entertainment and performances, Mr. Bond. I guess Goldfinger was _finally_ right: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mx9z99YJ_7s/maxresdefault.jpg "Goldfinger Movie CLIP - I Expect you To Die (1964) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx9z99YJ_7s) ---
**Author:** ![Lantern2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lantern2/32/3010_2.png) [@Lantern2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern2)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/39 "2020-10-31T19:53:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Huge loss, loved him. > > Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was an amazing performance for him. The gag was that Indiana Jones Dad is the “James Bond guy”, but that he is the exact opposite of James Bond. While a cute premise, Connery’s delivery and performance made the role my favorite of his. > > [Basically this scene and its aftermath.](https://youtu.be/VbUlktBPQps?t=193) Yeah Connery was great in the Last Crusade. There is a 20 minute or so stretch in it which is a pinnacle of film action-adventure. It starts with the scene you linked and ends with [this](https://youtu.be/70Z28nULwfQ?t=77). ---
**Author:** ![Lantern2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lantern2/32/3010_2.png) [@Lantern2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern2)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401/40 "2020-10-31T20:00:02Z")
I just realized that Connery and Moore died at a very similar age: 90 and 89. I still find it remarkable that Moore was three years older than Connery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sean-connery/924401.md?page=3)