Sean Connery
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@taniwharugby said in R.I.P. 2020:
I have Highlander in my collection, but it would be at least 20 years since I watched it, and I am not sure it is the type of movie that will age well.
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@chimoaus said in R.I.P. 2020:
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@raznomore said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 I saw a barely recognisable Gene Hackman the other day. I believe he’s around 90 as well. All the great tough guys are getting so old now.
Age is such a fluffybunny of a thing. Not nice seeing SC a year or two back on the news at Wimbledon looking really old and frail, Clint looked no better in the Mule.
Add Morgan Freeman to that list as well
Bill Nighy?
I'm referring to legends. Not old blokes who have occasionally funny cameos in Movies.
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@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Apparently Connery was quite a legitimately tough dude in real life if this story is anything to go by.....
Sean Connery Once Beat Up 6 Gang Members who Wanted to Steal his Jacket | The Vintage News
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is probably the most famous Scottish actor, best known for his role as the secret agent James Bond. Ever since his first
....and before Roger Moore took over and some of the ahem, less realistic elements became fashionable in Bond films there was this scrap which Connery and Grant did without any stunt doubles
Robert Shaw didn’t have much more luck in Jaws!
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Nails in The Molly Maguires
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@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
I am surprised he won an Oscar, he wasn’t a great actor in my opinion.
Caught some of his early stuff on a vintage film channel a few months back. Def not a De Niro or Olivier but pretty gifted. The Offence is a brilliant piece of acting
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@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Indeed. His era of old school legends is rapidly dwindling. Just a completely different breed to today’s film stars.
Screen presence in spades. Seems lacking from many of today's stars - gifted though they are.
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@Godder said in R.I.P. 2020:
Something Sean Connery and Roger Moore had in common was James Bond. Something else they had in common was that they essentially played one character - themselves.
I think that's because when they became screen icons the Bond label was indelibly written on them
Connery was a bloody good actor who had quite an acting range. Roger Moore was a RADA graduate who could seriously act when he was allowed to - check out The Man Who Haunted Himself where he plays two completely different, mirror-images of himself. It's a pretty stellar performance.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 said in R.I.P. 2020:
Indeed. His era of old school legends is rapidly dwindling. Just a completely different breed to today’s film stars.
Screen presence in spades. Seems lacking from many of today's stars - gifted though they are.
'Movie star'.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
@Godder said in R.I.P. 2020:
Something Sean Connery and Roger Moore had in common was James Bond. Something else they had in common was that they essentially played one character - themselves.
I think that's because when they became screen icons the Bond label was indelibly written on them
Connery was a bloody good actor who had quite an acting range. Roger Moore was a RADA graduate who could seriously act when he was allowed to - check out The Man Who Haunted Himself where he plays two completely different, mirror-images of himself. It's a pretty stellar performance.
Apparently very good in Marnie, and great movie, The Man who would be King.
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@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
Apparently very good in Marnie, and great movie, The Man who would be King.
Try The Offence and The Hill. Done about the time Bond took off, terrific acting
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@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
Apparently very good in Marnie, and great movie, The Man who would be King.
Try The Offence and The Hill. Done about the time Bond took off, terrific acting
Are they available on digital platforms? Sorry to be lazy, but just in case!
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@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
@Victor-Meldrew said in R.I.P. 2020:
@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
Apparently very good in Marnie, and great movie, The Man who would be King.
Try The Offence and The Hill. Done about the time Bond took off, terrific acting
Are they available on digital platforms? Sorry to be lazy, but just in case!
I don't really know. Watched them on terrestrial TV over the last year. Think The Offence is on Prime
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@Virgil said in R.I.P. 2020:
Sean was meant to be Gandalf in LOTR but supposedly turned it down because he didn’t want to spend 18 months in little ole NZ filming then back to back to back.
The right actor got the role anywayNot that I’m a big LOTR fan but yes, Ian Mclellan did a great job.
I think Connery always lived his life 100% on his own terms which sometimes didn’t endear him to others all that well.
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@MN5 Going to go against all the Connery adulation.
Worst type of professional Jock. Happy to accept a gong and then whinge bitterly about everything and how hard done by Scotland was from one of his villas in the Caribbean or Southern Spain. Massive hypocrite, limited actor - ego the size of Canada, chip the size of Russia.
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@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@MN5 Going to go against all the Connery adulation.
Worst type of professional Jock. Happy to accept a gong and then whinge bitterly about everything and how hard done by Scotland was from one of his villas in the Caribbean or Southern Spain. Massive hypocrite, limited actor - ego the size of Canada, chip the size of Russia.
Alleged woman beater too. I'm surprised you left that out.
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
