<P> Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, which helped polish the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the action . Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that "Terence took Sean under his wing . He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat ." The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week, and the actor became one of the great male sex symbols of film . </P> <P> During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was in danger in the sequence with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool . He had been concerned about this threat when he read the script . Connery insisted that Ken Adam build a special Plexiglas partition inside the pool, but this was not a fixed structure, and one of the sharks managed to pass through it . He had to abandon the pool immediately . </P> <P> In 2005, From Russia with Love was adapted by Electronic Arts into a video game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, which featured all - new voice work by Connery, recorded by Terry Manning in The Bahamas, as well as his likeness, and those of several of the film's supporting cast . </P> <P> Although Bond had made him a star, Connery eventually grew tired of the role and the pressure the franchise put on him, saying "(I am) fed up to here with the whole Bond bit" and "I have always hated that damned James Bond . I'd like to kill him". Michael Caine said of the situation, "If you were his friend in these early days you didn't raise the subject of Bond . He was, and is, a much better actor than just playing James Bond, but he became synonymous with Bond . He'd be walking down the street and people would say, "Look, there's James Bond ." That was particularly upsetting to him ." </P>

Scottish actor from goldfinger that was knighted in 2000