Sean Connery
Sean Connery was an actor who played the eponymous British secret agent in the James Bond film series during the 1960s. One of his successors in the role was Roger Moore. (AUDIO: Thin Ice [+]Loading...["Thin Ice (audio story)"])
When the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond were going to 1963, the Doctor mentioned Sean Connery as James Bond in the list of cool things about that year. (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"])
Connery's final Bond film was the 1966 film Voodoo Something To Me. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"]) Dr No (PROSE: Autumn Mist [+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"]) and You Only Live Twice were two other Bond films that featured Connery. (PROSE: Nightshade [+]Loading...["Nightshade (novel)"])
On a visit to the Soviet Union in November 1967, Ace anachronistically referred to Moore as the current James Bond during a conversation with her fellow Briton Markus Creevy. Creevy told her that Moore starred in the television series The Saint, while Bond was played by Connery. (AUDIO: Thin Ice [+]Loading...["Thin Ice (audio story)"])
Connery also starred in one of the Indiana Jones films which Bill Potts couldn't remember the name of. She initially mistook it for Raiders of the Lost Ark. (PROSE: Plague City [+]Loading...["Plague City (novel)"])
Fitz Kreiner could do a passable Sean Connery impression. (PROSE: The Taint [+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])
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- During the Nelvana attempt at creating a Doctor Who animated series during the Wilderness Years, concept art of the Master had him with Connery's likeness.
- In the real world, Sean Connery's final Eon Bond film was Diamonds Are Forever, not the fictional Voodoo Something To Me. He later appeared in the independently produced Bond film Never Say Never Again in 1983.
- Alf Joint was Sean Connery's stunt double as James Bond in Goldfinger.
- Connery's son, Jason Connery, appeared in the television story Vengeance on Varos.
- The Indiana Jones film in which Connery appeared was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. His role is alluded to in other novels from the BBC New Series Adventures: Almost Perfect mentions Indy's father, whom Connery played, while The Crawling Terror mentions the motorcycle and sidecar scene from the film, in which his character was involved as the sidecar passenger.
- Connery starred in the 1957 film Hell Drivers which also starred William Hartnell.[1]
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- ↑ Cult Movie: Gritty trucker tale Hell Drivers a classic Brit film noir. irishnews.com. Retrieved on 2020-09-19.
