Sean Connery Signed 8x10 (James Bond 007)

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Sean Connery Signed 8x10 (James Bond 007) Autographed 8x10 Photo With Certificate of Authenticity and Moneyback Guarantee This is an ORIGINAL, HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH not a preprint, copy or reproduction Certificate of Authenticity provided by Collectr See details below Academy Award Winning ActorPHOTOGRAPH OF "DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER" MOVIE POSTERORIGINAL HAND-SIGNED AUTOGRAPH IN TEAL MARKERDate of Birth: August 25, 1930Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland One of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, Sean Connery has spun his unflappable charm and old-style star quality into one of the most enduringly and endearingly dashing screen presences in the history of celluloid. And though his films haven't always performed at the box office, he has kept unceasingly busy throughout his four-decade-long screen career, transitioning effortlessly into mature roles, never losing any of the sex appeal and effortless virility that have made him a perennial favorite of women and men alike. The eldest of two sons born to a truckdriver father and charwoman mother living in an Edinburgh, Scotland, tenement, Thomas Sean Connery started helping support the family by delivering milk at the age of 9. Steady education was a luxury he could scarcely afford, and he eventually left school at the age of 13, first taking jobs as a laborer, steel bender, and cement mixer, and then, at 15, enlisting in the British Royal Navy for what was to have been a 12-year stint. Severe stomach ulcers hastened his discharge within three years, at which point he returned to Edinburgh and set about making his living working variously as a bricklayer, lifeguard, and coffin polisher. Connery occupied his off-work hours by bodybuilding, a pastime that eventually paid off handsomely when he began earning a bit of extra money posing for art classes and swimwear photo shoots. His painstaking efforts to develop his physique culminated in a bid for the 1950 Mr. Universe title (he came in third place). While in London competing in the Mr. Universe contest, Connery auditioned for and won a part as a singing sailor in the chorus of a year-long touring production of South Pacific. When asked how he wished to be billed for the musical, the unlettered, untried actor, who went by his boyhood diminutive of Tommy, settled on the marquee-worthy moniker Sean Connery. Though he had stumbled into acting on a whim (his real career aspiration at the time was to become a professional soccer player), subsequent intensive dancing, singing, and reading lessons prepared him adequately for a spate of repertory experience, which led in turn to respectable roles in British TV productions--he garnered particularly good reviews for his work in the BBC's staging of the American telefilm Requiem for a Heavyweight. Though his strictly supporting efforts in feature films were less distinguished, Connery diligently worked his way up from bit parts to more substantial secondary roles, earning his first big-screen assignment of any note in the 1958 Lana Turner starrer Another Time, Another Place. Connery might have merrily continued on as a minor player if he hadn't beat out several name actors to originate the cinematic incarnation of novelist Ian Fleming's glossy superspy James Bond in 1962's Dr. No, the first feature in what would prove an indefatigable and immensely lucrative franchise in the decades to come. Producer Harry Saltzman awarded Connery the plum part of agent 007 on the basis of a single interview and after watching him walk down the street. (Incidentally, Connery has trained extensively in movement, and prepares for each role by working out how the character should move, which is perhaps why he is so dead-on in each of his widely differing roles.) The former bodybuilder's rugged, disarming interpretation of the dapper and daring agent with a license to kill brought him almost instant international fame, and he would go on to reprise the characterization with clockwork regularity throug... read more

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