Sean Connery - Andrew Yule

In forty-three films, plus stage performances from Shakespeare to South Pacific, he made only seven appearances as James Bond. Yet for a whole generation of filmgoers, Sean Connery is Bond. How did a working-class, one-woman-at-a-time Scot become so totally identified with the public school, womanizing, quintessentially English agent; such a versatile and talented actor with a single, almost caricature part?
From milkman and coffin-polisher to one of the biggest box-office names there is, Andrew Yule reveals the early hopes and failures- personal and professional- and the frustrations of trying to prove that there is life after Bond. He looks at the little-known life behind the cameras; the star who has sued virtually every movie company around, yet is admired throughout the industry, and looks at Connery's views on his family and politics.
With this ever greater acclaim and awards for roles in The Untouchables and The Name of the Rose amongst many others, this is Sean Connery- the straight talking hard man with a sense of humour and a soft centre, as charismatic a role as he's ever played.