Famous Celebrities Who Died In Their 90s

Unlike a lot of other long-lived actors, Sean Connery retired well before he needed to. After an illustrious career playing James Bond and many other notable roles, he left Hollywood behind in 2003. Why? According to the Independent, it's simple: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Connery's final film was a flop, and he said the director should be "locked up for insanity."

He didn't even come back for the fourth Indiana Jones movie, writing on his website, "If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film. But in the end, retirement is just too much fun." However, rumors said he actually didn't do it because of creative differences with Steven Spielberg. And a friend of Connery's, the actor Michael Caine, said, "The movie business retired him because he didn't want to play small parts about old men and they weren't offering him any young parts in romantic leads."

Sean Connery died on October 31, 2020, aged 90. The BBC reports his deep connection to his homeland was celebrated, with the former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond calling Connery "the world's greatest Scot, the last of the real Hollywood stars, the definitive Bond ... Sean Connery was all of these things but much more. He was also a staunch patriot, a deep thinker, and outstanding human being ... 'Scotland Forever' wasn't just tattooed on his forearm but was imprinted on his soul." According to Find a Grave, Connery was cremated and his ashes were scattered in Scotland and the Bahamas.

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