Sean Connery Retiring After 50 Years

Edinburgh-born Sir Sean Connery has announced that he is to retire "for good" after 50 years in show business....

Sean Connery first appeared on the screen as an extra in 1955 (in an Errol Flynn drama "Lilacs in the Spring"). His last part is to be a voice-over in an animated film "Billi the Vet" being made in Scotland by the cartoon company Glasgow Animation. Connery appeared this week at the "Dressed to Kilt" fashion show in New York, part of the Tartan Week 2006 event. This was his first public appearance since he had surgery to remove a benign tumour from a kidney. In June, he is to be awarded a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.