‘The girls were getting younger and I was just getting too old.’ ‘Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films,’ Moore said at a ceremony to award him a star on Hollywood's ‘Walk of Fame’, just ahead of his 80th birthday. He followed it with ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’ (1974), ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ (1977), ‘Moonraker’ (1979), ‘For Your Eyes Only’ (1981) and ‘Octopussy’ (1983) before bowing out after ‘A View to a Kill’ in 1985, when he was 57. Moore made his debut in ‘Live and Let Die’, after the producers made him lose weight, get fit and cut his hair. Moore said in his autobiography he had been approached about playing James Bond, novelist Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent, as early as 1967.īut it was not until 1973 that he finally won the role - despite, at 45, being two and a half years older than Connery, the man he replaced.
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He also played alongside Tony Curtis in the 1970s crime series ‘The Persuaders’.
It was not until the following decade that he achieved worldwide fame, starring in British television show ‘The Saint’ as smooth-talking adventurer Simon Templar. He landed an MGM studio contract but only had supporting roles during the 1950s. Moore began his acting career as an extra in the 1940s before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ‘I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world,’ he wrote in his autobiography, ‘My Word Is My Bond.’ Which is why I play it mostly for laughs,’ he once said.īorn Roger George Moore, on Octoin the London suburb of Stockwell, he was the only son of a police constable and his wife, and had a happy childhood. He went on to become a real-life hero as an ambassador for UNICEF, even as he downplayed his own talents.
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Moore was also one of the last of the old-style movie stars, who counted Frank Sinatra and David Niven among his friends and lived in luxury in Switzerland and the French Riviera.
Known for his ironically raised eyebrow and deadpan quips, Moore's take on the suave superspy was more tongue-in-cheek than that of his manly predecessor Sean Connery.īut he outgunned Connery and all the other actors to have played 007 by taking the role he fondly called ‘Jimmy Bond’ in a record number of seven films. His 12 years as James Bond, the British agent with a voracious appetite for danger, made Moore a millionaire as well as a heartthrob the world over.īritish actor Roger Moore was never one to boast about his acting ability but then the facts spoke for themselves - he played James Bond in more films than any other man. They said he had died in Switzerland of cancer. While he never eclipsed Sean Connery in the public’s eye as the definitive James Bond, Moore did play the role of secret agent 007 in just as many films as Connery did, and he managed to do so while “finding a joke in every situation,” according to film critic Rex Reed.British actor Roger Moore, who won international fame playing secret agent James Bond, died on Tuesday aged 89, his family said on the actor's official Twitter account. So you have to treat the humor outrageously as well.” What kind of serious spy is recognized everywhere he goes? It’s outrageous. Every bartender in the world offers him martinis that are shaken, not stirred. “I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy and yet, everybody knows he’s a spy. “To me, the Bond situations are so ridiculous, so outrageous,” he once said. Moore’s relaxed style and sense of whimsy, which relied heavily on the arched eyebrow, seemed a commentary on the essential ridiculousness of the Bond films, in which the handsome British secret agent was as adept at mixing martinis, bedding beautiful women and ordering gourmet meals as he was at disposing of super-villains trying to take over the world. “We know our own love and admiration will be magnified many times over, across the world, by people who knew him for his films, his television shows and his passionate work for UNICEF, which he considered to be his greatest achievement,” the statement said. The British actor died Tuesday after a short battle with cancer, according to a family statement posted on Moore’s official Twitter account.
LONDON (AP) - Roger Moore, the suavely insouciant star of seven James Bond films, has died in Switzerland.
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