As young men, Sean Connery and Michael Caine were best friends. They would go out drinking and dancing together, chase girls together, and have a jolly good time whenever they did. Naturally, a lot people other men were quite jealous of the dashing pair. One instance, Caine, recalls, four men dared attack the future Bond star — he simply folded his coat, gave it to Caine for safekeeping and knocked all four of them to the ground in about ten seconds.  In another instance, American mobster Johnny Stompanato was jealous of a young Sean Connery as he suspected his girlfriend Lana Turner was having an affair with the young Scottish actor. Stompanato stormed onto the set of the film the actor was working on and threatened him with a gun… Connery, not skipping a beat, disarmed Stompanato by quickly grabbing his wrist, breaking it. The mafioso fled the scene, humiliated… All these things happened before Sean Connery was even cast to play James Bond. He was just a struggling actor but he already had the air of a main character and the guts to put his money where his mouth was. That’s the sort of man he was, and the sort of man he remained throughout his life. An icon, through and through