President Donald Trump has paid his own tribute to the late James Bond star Sir Sean Connery, hailing him as a “great actor and an even greater man”.

Pierce Brosnan has joined the flood of tributes to “one of the true greats of cinema”, Sir Sean Connery, saying the Scottish actor “cast a long shadow of cinematic splendour that will live on forever”.

After catapulting to fame as the first-ever James Bond, Sean Connery had a glamorous and varied Hollywood career spanning 50 years which secured him prestigious awards including an Oscar and two Baftas.

Silver screen giant Sir Sean Connery was perhaps most famous for his role as the martini-swirling, 007 agent in seven James Bond films.

Sir Sean Connery won his first and only Oscar in 1988 for his role as a tough Irish cop in The Untouchables.

Daniel Craig has hailed fellow James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery as “one of the true greats of cinema”, adding he hopes that “wherever he is there’s a golf course”.

The producers of James Bond have said they are “devastated” by the at the age of 90, as he was remembered as “the world’s greatest Scot, the last of the real Hollywood stars, the definitive Bond”.

A long-time supporter of Scottish independence, Sir Sean Connery, in his own words, said that the country should be “nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world”.

Sir Sean Connery, the original star of the James Bond films, has died at the age of 90. Here are the best quotes from his glittering five-decade career. – On his similarities to 007 “There’s one major difference between James Bond and me.

Sean Connery was the first actor to play James Bond in an illustrious career that saw him win an Oscar, two Baftas and three Golden Globes.

He enjoyed a long and varied film career spanning 50 years, but Sean Connery will undoubtedly be remembered as the first – and some say definitive – James Bond.