{"id":328228,"date":"2020-10-31T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328228"},"modified":"2020-10-31T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:35:45","slug":"james-bond-actor-sean-connery-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/james-bond-actor-sean-connery-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond actor Sean Connery dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328229 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sean-connery-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/sean-connery-1.jpg 399w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/sean-connery-1-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/sean-connery-1-393x420.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/>Legendary British actor Sean Connery, best known for playing fictional detective James Bond in a number of films, has passed away. He was 90.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was the first actor to play Bond onscreen-Dr No in 1962 which he followed up with six more bond films-From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Scottish actor\u00a0featured in many critically acclaimed and commercial blockbusters and won many awards during the course of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He won an Oscar for supporting actor for his performance as a tough Irish policeman in \u201cThe Untouchables\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also won three Golden Globes and two Bafta awards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary British actor Sean Connery, best known for playing fictional detective James Bond in a number of films, has passed away. He was 90. He was the first actor to play Bond onscreen-Dr No in 1962 which he followed up with six more bond films-From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328230,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328228\/revisions\/328230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}