Death of Sean Connery

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vandermolen

October 31, 2020, 04:50:24 AM
My favourite Bond and I also loved his performance in 'The Name of the Rose' as a kind of medieval, monastic Sherlock Holmes. I got his autograph when I was a child.
RIP Sir Sean.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54761824
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AlberichUndHagen

#1
October 31, 2020, 04:52:02 AM
My favourite Bond as well. This is very sad news.  :(

Gurn Blanston

#2
October 31, 2020, 05:31:05 AM
Aaaggghhh! 2020, you bastard year, you've gone too far now! My favorite actor, in so many great movies. I just saw "A Bridge Too Far" a few weeks ago and it started me thinking that he must be getting on, so this news is not a great shocking surprise. But its arrival is a great sadness. Connery, Sean Connery....  :'(

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The new erato

#3
October 31, 2020, 05:31:26 AM
Great in the 3rd Indiana Jones as well. No other Bond was even close.

vandermolen

#4
October 31, 2020, 05:38:49 AM
Quote from: The new erato on October 31, 2020, 05:31:26 AM
Great in the 3rd Indiana Jones as well. No other Bond was even close.
Totally agree and I should have mentioned his fine performance in 'A Bridge too Far'.
Sad news indeed.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Florestan

#5
October 31, 2020, 05:41:20 AM
Best James Bond ever and top rate in every other role. One of the best actors ever. RIP.

(As with Parkin, I had no idea he was that old.)
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

Florestan

#6
October 31, 2020, 05:42:20 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 31, 2020, 04:50:24 AM
I also loved his performance in 'The Name of the Rose' as a kind of medieval, monastic Sherlock Holmes.

+ 1.
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Pohjolas Daughter

#7
October 31, 2020, 05:44:26 AM
I just heard the news (over NPR)...very sad to hear it.  Looking at the BBC's website, apparently he had been unwell for some time.  :(

Loved him in a number of movies...besides the Bond ones:  The Man Who Would Be King; as someone else here mentioned, in the third Indiana Jones one; The Hunt for Red October; can't think of the title right now but the one about the mobster who they were trying to get for tax fraud in Chicago...

R.I.P.

PD

Sterna

#8
October 31, 2020, 05:45:54 AM
:(

Rest In Peace, Sir Sean.

Todd

#9
October 31, 2020, 05:54:01 AM
RIP Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez.

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Karl Henning

#10
October 31, 2020, 06:05:39 AM
Fine actor, great human being
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
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Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
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Pohjolas Daughter

#11
October 31, 2020, 06:12:04 AM
The Untouchables....that was the movie that I was thinking of...with Kevin Costner about Al Capone.

JBS

#12
October 31, 2020, 06:26:58 AM
Darby O'Gill and the Little People. (Am I dating myself?)

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pjme

#13
October 31, 2020, 06:55:59 AM
Great actor, beautiful voice, a Scotsman!

Some sad music ...: https://youtu.be/-B1ocQgt6EQ

Symphonic Addict

#14
October 31, 2020, 07:03:18 AM
May he rest in peace. A most accomplished actor. A legend.
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied. The terror IS REAL more than ever!

Karl Henning

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October 31, 2020, 07:24:00 AM Last Edit: October 31, 2020, 08:46:13 AM by k a rl h e nn i ng
A fine actor and an admirable human being!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Gurn Blanston

#16
October 31, 2020, 08:24:54 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 31, 2020, 05:44:26 AM
I just heard the news (over NPR)...very sad to hear it.  Looking at the BBC's website, apparently he had been unwell for some time.  :(

Loved him in a number of movies...besides the Bond ones:  The Man Who Would Be King; as someone else here mentioned, in the third Indiana Jones one; The Hunt for Red October; can't think of the title right now but the one about the mobster who they were trying to get for tax fraud in Chicago...

R.I.P.

PD

So many really good movies, and those are a few of my favorites, especially opposite Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King. 

One I haven't seen mentioned yet, but which I greatly enjoyed for its convoluted plot line was Entrapment with Catherine Zeta-Jones. It was the best run-up ever to the Y2K bug. :)

Quote from: Todd on October 31, 2020, 05:54:01 AM
RIP Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez.



Yet another favorite, certainly not least for Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez! It is at least remotely possible the franchise took off due to the perfect casting of a real Highlander... ;)

:(

Guess I'm gonna have to put together a binge-a-thon to get this all out of my system.

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#17
October 31, 2020, 08:46:57 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 31, 2020, 06:12:04 AM
The Untouchables....that was the movie that I was thinking of...with Kevin Costner about Al Capone.

Thus endeth the lesson.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#18
October 31, 2020, 08:50:05 AM Last Edit: October 31, 2020, 08:55:31 AM by k a rl h e nn i ng
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 31, 2020, 08:24:54 AM
So many really good movies, and those are a few of my favorites, especially opposite Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King. 

One I haven't seen mentioned yet, but which I greatly enjoyed for its convoluted plot line was Entrapment with Catherine Zeta-Jones. It was the best run-up ever to the Y2K bug. :)

Yet another favorite, certainly not least for Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez! It is at least remotely possible the franchise took off due to the perfect casting of a real Highlander... ;)

:(

Guess I'm gonna have to put together a binge-a-thon to get this all out of my system.

8)

Love The Man Who Would Be King! First saw it on a small screen TV (which, of course, compared favorably to today's tablets), and I couldn't tear myself away.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

drogulus

#19
October 31, 2020, 09:05:44 AM

     I admired him for many roles including the ones mentioned above, but also for the films he made with Sidney Lumet (The Hill, The Offence, The Anderson Tapes).
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