This biography of Sean Connery takes the reader from Connery's birth in 1930 in a working-class district of Edinburgh to the present as one of the most uncompromising of film actors. Connery became an actor almost by mistake when a friend suggested he answer an advertisement for extras for the touring stage production of South Pacific. From there, he gradually built a reputation until he landed the part of James Bond in Dr No. Determined not to be...