In Pictures: Sir Sean Connery’s life on screen

Sir Sean in his most famous role as James Bond, with a licence to kill

Sir Sean with Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore, during the filming of Goldfinger

Two Bonds Sir Roger Moore with Sir Sean in 1990

With Sir Michael Caine in Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King in 1975

Sir Sean and Audrey Hepburn in a scene from Robin And Marian in 1976

The Princess Royal presents Sir Sean with the special Bafta silver mask Tribute Award in 1990

Dame Diana Rigg, who died earlier this year, was another Bond co-star

A scene from Goldfinger during filming at Pinewood Studios in 1964

In 1967 with his then wife Diane Cilento and their children Gigi, nine, and Jason, four

With son Jason in 1988

With fellow Scot Sir Billy Connolly in 1998

With Catherine Zeta-Jones at the Palais des Festivals for the movie premiere of Entrapment during the Cannes Film Festival in 1999

Sir Sean and wife Michelina, arriving for the opening of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999

Sir Sean was knighted in 2000 by the Queen during a ceremony in his home city at the Palace of Holyroodhouse

Sir Sean launched his memoirs at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2008

In 2010 ahead of a screening of his 1975 classic The Man Who Would Be King during the Edinburgh International Film Festival