83-Year-Old Bond Star Sean Connery, Is Losing His Memory

Screen legend Michael Caine says his best friend - 007 actor Sean Connery - is 'no longer in control of his senses' and fears he is losing his memory.

In an interview with German newspaper Bild am sonntag Caine said: 'One must have serious concerns for him.'

Bild said the loss of his memory is 'noticeable' and that only a few close friends and confidantes, like Caine, had access to him.

'Connery forgets his life,'  was the headline in the paper, Europe's biggest selling Sunday newspaper.

Sean Connery (right) and his wife Marcheline (second right) arrive at the Edinburgh Film Festival with Michael Caine and his wife Shakira (left) for the showing of The Man Who Would Be King. The pair became friends during filming of the epic

The newspaper said his wife Micheline Roquebrune, 77, was always frightened to pick up the phone when he was out on the streets of Manhattan in case of bad news.

The inference was that he can sometimes not find his way home.

Connery, 83, told a British newspaper two years ago that he had no interest in acting any longer.  

German newswebsites and papers were filled with the comments of Caine, 80, to Bild, which were confined to a couple of sentences.

The last time Connery appeared before the cameras was in 2003 for 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'

He and Caine became pals during the shooting of the 1975 epic 'The Man Who Would Be King.'