A sad day indeed.
He was an icon. He launched the Bond franchise, though one of the people involved didn't want Connery, saying he was "too tall, too dark, and too Scottish".
He had that thing that the very best actors have- Jack Nicholson is another who comes to mind- that in any role he seeming to be merely playing himself while simultaneously perfectly becoming the character.
What's stunning to me is the list of roles he turned down, iconic roles like Dumbledore and Gandalf.
As an odd personal note his mother and my grandmother were both named Euphemia.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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