Roger Moore RIP

McSween · 23-05-2017 09:41PM

He is excellent in North Sea Hijack.

LordSutch · 23-05-2017 10:16PM

Old enough to remember him as Simon Templar in the Saint.

Thought he was great in the Persuaders too, alongside Tony Curtis.

Lovely man, son of a policemen no less!

R.I.P. Roger Moore.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 23-05-2017 10:41PM

He was a class act. Excellent in the Wild Geese too. RIP old chap.

AllForIt · 23-05-2017 11:36PM

Was totally star struck when in 1994 I seen him walking down Grafton Street wearing those thick brown rimmed glasses and a long brown coat.

Interestingly despite his sophisticated suave look and accent he hails from Stockwell London. Not exactly an upper class background.

He came across as a really likable fellow and it's a pity that due to the events in Manchester that his death got sidelined in the media, understandably of course.

I think that his depiction of Bond was just perfect, a upper class English white male that had an air of superiority about him working for MI5. Perfect for the role and and imo the best Bond.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-05-2017 12:12AM

McSween wrote: »

He is excellent in North Sea Hijack.

Cheese and ham

it's a guilty pleasure.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-05-2017 12:29AM

zorro2566 wrote: »

Ah yes, and the hot Caroline Munro to boot!

First woman killed by Bond.

Golden Voyage of Sinbad is worth a watch

Starcrash is a complete car crash of a filum , so bad it's good.

Ulysses Gaze · 24-05-2017 12:32AM

Loved him in the Bond movies - impossible to follow Connery so he did it his way. Which took guts to do.

I also enjoyed his send up of Bond in The Cannonball Run.

Seemed like a class act and a gentleman as well.

Outlaw Pete · 24-05-2017 01:14AM

Brutal quality but well worth watching.. his timing was excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB8EpbU1z9I

Mint Sauce · 24-05-2017 01:39AM

One of the very first films I remember seeing in the cinema. Has since been one of my favourite Bonds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMIgIygzdA

RIP Sir Rodger.

Teyla Emmagan · 24-05-2017 08:46AM

Arthur Daley wrote:

Was only in Dublin at the Bord Gais and on the late late last October/November I think.

I went to see him in the Bord Gais that time, he was fantastic. Full of hilarious stories and as quick as a whip. He was an amazing man for 89. Very lucky to have kept his health and wit that long.

I went to see the Forbidden City years ago. The English audio guide was done by Roger. Felt slightly surreal but wonderful to hear that amazing voice in such an unexpected setting.

I was actually glad of the reprieve yesterday with all the Manchester news. Lightened my mood a bit to be able to read all the warm stories about Roger. He was a class act.

gramar · 24-05-2017 09:55AM

I think of all the Bonds Roger Moore was the one that in real life was most like the character.

24-05-2017 10:23PM

RIP James

AllForIt · 24-05-2017 10:25PM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Brutal quality but well worth watching.. his timing was excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB8EpbU1z9I

That was a great interview thanks to Rodger and despite Morgans rather crass interviewing style.

Was very magnanimous of him at the end of the interview to say that success was 99% luck and the rest due to talent and looks.

What a gentleman.

Samuel T. Cogley · 24-05-2017 11:58PM

Someone pointed out that if there is ever a female Bond, the joke name for the male 'Bond Guy' is just going to have to be: Roger Moore.

AllForIt · 25-05-2017 01:35AM

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Someone pointed out that if there is ever a female Bond, the joke name for the male 'Bond Guy' is just going to have to be: Roger Moore.

Don't get it.

If there ever were to be a female Bond then to attract the audience of the heterosexual male interest there would still have to be a femme fatale :pac:

valoren · 25-05-2017 12:30PM

AllForIt wrote: »

Don't get it.

If there ever were to be a female Bond then to attract the audience of the heterosexual male interest there would still have to be a femme fatale :pac:

Felix O'Toole
Hugh J Cox
Roger Hardy

lee_baby_simms · 26-05-2017 11:27AM

valoren wrote: »

Felix O'Toole
Hugh J Cox
Roger Hardy

Mike Oxard

A Battered Mars Bar · 26-05-2017 01:40PM

Damn you 2016! When will your curse ever end! Damn you to hell!

Rip Mr. Bond. 2016 still has a strangle hold on 2017 it appears

26-05-2017 03:25PM

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Mike Oxard

Ben Dover
Jack Mioff
Mike Hunt

Amelia99 · 27-05-2017 11:11AM

Back to Roger Moore. Just heard Dave Fanning being an absolute tool about him. Some guy on the film slot was talking about Roger Moore and saying what a nice guy he was and it's impossible to find anyone with a bad word to say about him. Fanning kept interrupting him to say "yeah but he was a terrible actor." Just got on my nerves because I thought it was gratuitous in the context of what the guy was saying.

Dr Crayfish · 27-05-2017 12:33PM

He was a great actor. Ok the Bond films may look dated now but at the time they were mesmerising for a kid like me. Nobody does it better.

Amelia99 · 27-05-2017 01:32PM

I loved the humour he injected into the Bond Movies. I can never take the Bond character or plots seriously so, for me, the Roger Moore ones are the most enjoyable.

Anyway whatever one thinks of him as an actor he seems to have been a genuinely nice man so I thought it was crass of Fanning to keep ignoring the guy's account of the man's life just to say he thought he was a terrible actor.

Roger Moore RIP

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