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Before Bond: Sean Connery’s early years
From John Boorman’s introduction to Sean Connery: His Life and Films by Michael Feeney Callan (London 1983)
Mountain McClintock is as weary and hackneyed a fictional character as they come. He is a shambling, inarticulate boxer, the unbeaten hero of more than a hundred fights whose career is on the skids. He has damaged his eyesight, and the doctors have told him to hang up his gloves. Now, it seems, all his past glories are forgotten and he must stoop to earn a living.
McClintock is lured by unscrupulous promoters, who want to trade on his name, into the humiliating world of show wrestling. Here, the champ suffers the ultimate indignity: he is dressed up as a clown and is made to gambol round the ring like a performing bear, as if mocking his own strength and majesty.
Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight was broadcast live on American television in the mid-50s, with Jack Palance in the leading role. For all its mawkishness, it was much acclaimed. Along with plays like Paddy Chayevsky’s Marty, it was viewed as a new kind of drama which went against the grain of mainstream television and dared to show tragedy and failure, to be resolutely downbeat, even if that meant upsetting the advertisers.
A year or two later, th
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Obituary: Sir Sean Connery
The artist Richard Demarco, who as a student often painted Connery, described him as "too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis".
A keen footballer, Connery was good enough to attract the attention of Matt Busby, who offered him a £25-a-week contract at Manchester United.
But, bitten by the acting bug when odd-jobbing at a local theatre, he decided a footballer's career was potentially too short and opted to pursue his luck on the stage. It was, he later said, "one of my more intelligent moves".
In 1953, he was in London competing in the Mr Universe competition. He heard that there were parts going in the chorus of a production of the musical South Pacific. By the following year, he was playing the role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, made famous on Broadway by Larry Hagman.
American actor Robert Henderson encouraged Connery to educate himself. Henderson lent him works by Ibsen, Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, and persuaded Connery to take elocution lessons.
Connery made the first of many appearances as a film extra in the 1954 movie Lilacs in the Spring. There were minor roles on television too, including a gangster in an episode of the BBC police drama Dixon of Dock Green.
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