SECRET AGENT Sean Connery 90th birthday: How he’s gone from Bond star with string of stunning lovers to recluse in Bahamas tax haven.

The Sun ^ | August 25, 2020 | Grant Rollings

[L.A.Justice]

EVEN with his thick, trademark eyebrows hidden by a pair of shades there is no mistaking the superstar smile of Sir Sean Connery.

But as he celebrates his 90th birthday today the man who James Bond fans say has never been bettered as 007 will be celebrating away from the glare of the cameras.

Not seen out in public for three years Connery has become a virtual recluse, determined to have nothing to do with showbusiness or the fictional spy who made him both rich and famous.

He rarely leaves a gated community in the Bahamas where he lives in splendid retirement with his second wife Micheline Roquebrune.

Once able to command eight figure fees for a movie role, the actor has given strict instructions to his agent to turn down all offers.

Instead he prefers to spend his days playing golf, which seems to have given him the unrefined joy that he never truly found making films.

[L.A.Justice]

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN...Sean Connery's last Bond film...Barbara Carrera was great in that film...Alec Baldwin's ex-wife was OK...

Happy 90th birthday to Sir Sean Connery...He only has one son...I think Sir Sean is for Scottish independence...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...I did watch that movie in 2002 in some movie theater in Hollywood...It was an average movie...

I had no idea that Steven Segal worked on Never Say Never Again as a fight coordinator...He did break Connery's wrist during training...

Connery was in A BRIDGE TOO FAR...As a British general commanding paratroopers...

[dfwgator]

And your mother’s still a whore!

[Jolla]

Happy Birthday 007 - Sir Sean

[Red Badger]

He deserves his privacy and retirement!................

[kabar]

[RandallFlagg]

Bald by the time he was 21.
I still watch From Russia With Love at least once a year.

[irishjuggler]

“Recluse”? The man is 90 freakin’ years old. What the hell do they expect him to be out doing?

[blueunicorn6]

Celebrity Jeopardy.

Really funny.

“And Tom Hanks has his hand stuck in a pickle jar.”

[Jane Long]

They sure did a decent job, with his hairpiece, back then.

Happy 90th, 007.

[Dawgreg]

I’ve got all the James Bond movies with Sean Connery....after he left that was it for me. There’s only one James Bond to me........

[albie]

Not only James Bond but was awesome as the “beat” cop in “The Untouchables”

[al_c]

Yeah ... it’s called retirement. Lots of older folks do that.

[Calvin Locke]

“tax haven”, huh?

I saw another “Bond”, Roger Moore, on Johnny Carson. He too, left the UK and became a citizen of Switzerland, making no apologies fleeing the tax policies.

Probably pre-Thatcher.

Happy Birthday, Sean Connery.

[iamgalt]

The one true Bond IMHO and there can be only one.

[Exit148]

I liked him in Medicine Man.

[RandallFlagg]

I have them all, too.
Trivia time:
Which JB movie was it when Connery sings?
(No cheating)

[9YearLurker]

He was the spy film version of Ron Jeremy.

Every average-looking man’s dream of endless babes drueling over his, er, prowess.

[SanchoP]

Sean Connery made the “Highlander” series fit to watch.

[kenmcg]

What’s that about his mom?

[xp38]

Ian Fleming was a bit reluctant of Sean at first but after seeing him in the first movie he gave Bond in the novel OHMSS a Scottish background.