Trivia

After becoming uneasy about the commercialism of St Patrick's Day celebrations in Ireland, he retired to the Charante Maritime in France where he joined the church choir, became a hospital visitor and read Flaubert.

With his death on July 15, 2007, Sean Connery is the last surviving cast member of Darby O'Gill et les farfadets (1959).

In the 70s he directed and narrated two documentary films about the fight for survival in the Third World.

In later life, a frequent contributor to "The Tablet", the famous British Catholic newspaper.

Co-starred in both The Day of the Triffids and Crack in the World with Janette Scott. Both films center on a deadly threat to humanity.

He originally found stage success in Red Roses for Me.

Film fame came later in A Man About the House.