{"id":978,"date":"2020-10-31T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T18:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/?p=978"},"modified":"2020-10-31T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T18:25:43","slug":"remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Carrie Nelson\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The original \u2018James Bond\u2019 actor is remembered for his incredible work as one of the true greats of cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Scottish actor\u2019s career spanned five decades. He even won an Oscar in 1988 for his role in The Untouchables.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other notable films included\u00a0<\/span>The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>The Rock<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What some don\u2019t know about Connery is his faith background. His mother was a Protestant, likely a member of the Church of Scotland,\u00a0<\/span>Hollowverse<\/span><\/em>\u00a0reports. His father was Catholic, and Connery was raised in the faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

While religion, faith, and spirituality aren\u2019t topics that Connery discussed frequently or in-depth, many could see his faith manifested in how he lived his life and some of the roles he played.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\u00a0<\/span><\/em>had many Christian undertones, with some seeing the film as a representation of good versus evil, Christ versus Satan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIndy represents good, and of course, the Nazi\u2019s represents evil. Indy at first doesn\u2019t believe in Christ, but after experiencing many hardships, he finally takes God into his soul and trusts in his, and with God\u2019s help, he defeats the Nazi menace and saves his father thanks to the Holy cup\u2019s awesome power,\u201d Christian Spotlight movie reviewer Daniel Ball said. <\/span><\/p>\n

“\u2018You must believe boy, you must.\u2019 are the words uttered by Jones, Sr. in the movie. And that is the message of this film. Good vs. Evil. Christ vs. Satan,\u201d he continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Connery is cast as Indy\u2019s father in the film, and nobody could have played this role quite like him. His faith background may have drawn him to this role and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n

He died peacefully in his sleep, having been \u201cunwell for some time,\u201d the BBC reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said they were \u201cdevastated by the news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was and shall always be remembered as the original James Bond whose indelible entrance into cinema history began when he announced those unforgettable words \u2014 \u2018The name\u2019s Bond… James Bond,\u2019\u201d they said in a released statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Connery starred in his famous Bond Role seven times, beginning with \u201cDr. No\u201d in 1962. For many years, he was simply known as Bond, as he was the first actor to play the character on the big screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Connery left big shoes to fill for every actor who would follow in this role. His portrayal defined the secret agent genre, and his legacy will continue long after his passing. He was 90.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The original \u2018James Bond\u2019 actor is remembered for his incredible work as one of the true greats of cinema. The Scottish actor\u2019s career spanned five decades. He even won an Oscar in 1988 for his role in The Untouchables. Other notable films included\u00a0The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,\u00a0and\u00a0The Rock.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[426,93,423,420,417,429,432],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cinema-greats","tag-james-bond","tag-legacy","tag-legendary-actor","tag-sean-connery","tag-sean-connery-death","tag-sean-connery-passing"],"yoast_head":"\nRemembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The original \u2018James Bond\u2019 actor is remembered for his incredible work as one of the true greats of cinema. The Scottish actor\u2019s career spanned five decades. He even won an Oscar in 1988 for his role in The Untouchables. Other notable films included\u00a0The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,\u00a0and\u00a0The Rock.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Where Hope Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-31T18:25:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2020\/10\/seanconnery-carrie-nelson-shutterstock.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"645\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"453\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lesli White\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Remembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Remembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith","og_description":"The original \u2018James Bond\u2019 actor is remembered for his incredible work as one of the true greats of cinema. The Scottish actor\u2019s career spanned five decades. He even won an Oscar in 1988 for his role in The Untouchables. Other notable films included\u00a0The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,\u00a0and\u00a0The Rock.…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html","og_site_name":"Where Hope Lives","article_published_time":"2020-10-31T18:25:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":645,"height":453,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2020\/10\/seanconnery-carrie-nelson-shutterstock.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Lesli White","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html","name":"Remembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2020\/10\/seanconnery-carrie-nelson-shutterstock.png","datePublished":"2020-10-31T18:25:43+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-31T18:25:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#\/schema\/person\/4f72f240cbc397de345b4a72c0109413"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2020\/10\/seanconnery-carrie-nelson-shutterstock.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2020\/10\/seanconnery-carrie-nelson-shutterstock.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2020\/10\/remembering-sean-connery-legendary-actor-and-man-of-quiet-faith.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Remembering Sean Connery: Legendary Actor and Man of Quiet Faith"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/","name":"Where Hope Lives","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Tributes","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#\/schema\/person\/4f72f240cbc397de345b4a72c0109413","name":"Lesli White","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/author\/lwhite"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}