The first Bond releases autobiography

Ever first player of James Bond 007 (A secret agent of M5 British Spy Agency) Sean Connery going to release his autobiography following his successor Roger Moore's publication of his own recently, which is titled as Being a Scot, coincidences with Sean's 78th birth day.

The exotic figure of Hollywood who impressed a generation film goers and who was instrumental in creation of sequels across languages at global level, Connery now enjoys a quite life in US. At the age of 78 he still fit in to challenging roles of action and recently spotted at few movies based on action.

Connery is well known as an iconic face of James Bond but in England he is known as a Scott since he has two tattoos in his body dedicated one for his parents and the other one for free Scotland. He even determined not to return his home land unless it becomes free.

Sean Connery born in to a working class family in August 1930. He gave studies at an early age and joined in to Naval Service. After three years of Naval Service he got stomach ulcer and left the service. After returning to Edinburgh his life had various roles as bricklayer, life guard and coffin polisher.

By spending his leisure time on bodybuilding and theatre acting which eventually landed up to a third place in Mr Universe and Hollywood.

In Hollywood he thrived hard for eight years before he joined with Lana Turner in Another Place, Another Time in 1958. After further four years he got in to as Secret Agent 007 in six of Ian Fleming's Bond movies over the next decade: Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia, With Love (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967), and Diamonds are Forever (1971).

He then broadened his career with an Agatha Christie whodunit, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), John Huston's adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure, The Man Who Would Be King (1975), the medieval romance, Robin and Marian (1976), and Peter Hyams' sci-fi film, Outland (1981). He resurfaced as a much wiser and more mature Bond in the 1983 adventure, Never Say Never Again.

The 90's brought such great films as The Hunt for Red October (1990, as a Russian sub commander); and 1993's Rising Sun (as an expert in all things Japanese); Dragonheart (1996); and the successful contemporary action dramas Just Cause (1995); and The Rock (1996). In 1999, Connery starred in and produced (Fountainbridge Films) Entrapment, a love story-thriller, costarring Catherine Zeta-Jones. The year 2000 brought what many have said to be one of his best films, Finding Forrester. Sean's latest movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was released in 2003.

Many leading Hollywood and global stars acted together with his great thief's role including India's Nasrudeen Shah.

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