[gibsonguy]

There can be only one. And that one was Sean Connery.

[oh8eleven]

I'm still saddened by his passing.
I expected at least one or two movie channels offered by my cable company (Spectrum Silver) would have run a few of his movies - nope not a one.
Freakin' people must live in a vacuum.

[pbear8]

He waved to me once when I was on Alcatraz with the film crew during the filming of ‘The Rock’. LOL- my big Sean Connery moment.

[G Larry]

Perhaps more obscure:

Reporters asked JFK, "what are you reading?".

To which he replied, "This spy novel by Ian Fleming".

[pepsi_junkie]

In the late '50s there was a James Bond comic strip in the UK that became wildly popular. So Bond was a household name there before the films came out. The comic strip Bond looked like this:

Supposedly Connery had an edge in the casting becasue he resembled the look of that very popular comic strip James Bond.

[Sans-Culotte]

Fleming’s Bond was not Scottish, and neither is Daniel Craig, the actor currently inhabiting the Bond role. Today’s Bonds are Scottish because Connery was Scottish.

This is not quite true. Bond' s father (according to the novel You Only Live Twice) was Scottish. However, as it was one of the last books, it is theorized that Fleming made Bond half Scottish because Connery had been such a hit in the first Bond film.

[Dr. Sivana]

whom serious film fans will admit did make the first “James Bond movie” with Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959.)

No. Serious film fans place "North by Northwest" into an entirely different category. Roger O. Thornhill was a "fish out of water". A New York City advertising executive who is mistaken for a spy who doesn't exist. He never signe dup to be an action man.

When Eva Marie-Saint asks him what his middle initial "O" stands for, he tells her it stands for "nothing". The letter is "O" is like the number zero. So it is a little joke, but it is supposed to represent something about Thornhill's character.

Yes, he rises to the occasion, but he is NOT a modern day Achilles or Scarlet Pimpernel. He is the middle of Kansas farmland being chased by a crop duster, wondering, how the hell did this happen? That is NOT James Bond Territory.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

TARZAN’S GREATEST ADVENTURE! Connery was a bad guy who got his comeuppance. Just before Dr NO.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Some of his films—perhaps especially “Zardoz” (1974) and “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” (1959)—were regrettable."

Darby O'Gill was the film in which Albert Broccoli's wife first noticed Connery, and as a result it was she who came to champion Connery's selection for Bond.

I'm not sure I'd really call that, "regrettable."