Thought Connery was great as Bond and Man Who Would Be King is a great movie, plus he was an icon of 60s cool, but he was famous for his views on hitting women.
"I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman- although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man. An open-handed slap is justified if all other alternatives fail.” – Sean Connery, Playboy, 1965.
He defended that stance in the late 80s.