Once there, however, William is asked by the abbot (Michael Lonsdale, a Bond villain in 1979’s Moonraker) to help solve the mysterious death of a young monk.
But he did come close, playing a character who was based at least in part on Holmes, in the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose.īased on the best-selling 1980 novel by Italian historian, philosopher and author Umberto Eco, the book and the film are set in 1327, as a Franciscan monk named William of Baskerville (Connery) and his young novice Adso of Melk (Christian Slater) travel to a remote abbey in northern Italy that’s home to an order of Benedictine monks, ostensibly for a high-stakes debate between the Franciscan order and emissaries of the Vatican over the poverty of Christ. One role Connery never got to play was Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and many more.
Among those were, of course, Ian Fleming’s suave spy James Bond in seven films Daniel Druvot in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King King Arthur in 1995’s First Knight, Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and Marian Dr. In the course of his nearly 50-year career on the screen, the late Sean Connery portrayed many famous characters, both fictional and non-fictional.