James Bond in film process. Connery, however, was somewhat resigned to the project, lacking the enthusiasm he sported for "Thunderball". A press conference on his arrival had been tense, "soured by aggressive questioning of Connery's crumpled, jet-lagged appearance". Primary and secondary photography finished in December; the special effects filming for the space scenes were undertaken between January and March 1967, prior to the film's release on 12 June. The cinema posters for the film stated "Sean Connery IS James Bond", to distance the Eon-produced picture from the independent "Casino Royale", which had been released two months earlier. However, during the production, Connery announced that
Neil Connery Neil Connery Neil Niren Connery (born 1 January 1938) is a retired Scottish actor and the younger brother of actor Sir Sean Connery. Neil Niren Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1 January 1936. The Connery family is of Irish origin. His father Joseph Connery was a lorry driver and his mother Euphemia McBain a cleaning woman. Neil had a modest upbringing in a poor area of Edinburgh. Throughout his acting career, Neil has appeared in several films. Neil Connery's film debut was in "O.K. Connery" (1967), a James Bond-inspired film. The film was retitled "Operation Kid Brother" in