“The only way I’ve had to extend myself has been to carry on charming.By 1979, the James Bond had become cliché. “In theatrical terms, I’ve never had a part that demands much of me,” he added. “He’s slightly around the twist, isn’t he?” “I would say your average hero has a super ego, an invincible attitude and an overall death wish,” he told The New York Times in 1970. Moore had definite opinions about playing heroic adventurers long before he became Bond. He is also survived by his sons, Geoffrey and Christian a daughter, Deborah and grandchildren. They divorced in 1996, and in 2002 he married the Swedish-born Kristina Tholstrup, who survives him. He married Mattioli the next year and had three children with her. He married Dorothy Squires in 1953 and left her in the early ‘60s for Luisa Mattioli, whom he had met making an Italian film, but their divorce was not final until 1968. He met his first wife (1946-53), Doorn Van Steyn, at acting school in London. Moore married four times and was divorced three. His last film appearance was a supporting role in “The Carer” (2016), about an aging and ailing British actor (Brian Cox).
(He said at the time that he was unhappy with his singing voice, but he later said that he had left at Lloyd Webber’s request.) In between, Andrew Lloyd Webber cast him in his 1989 musical, “Aspects of Love,” in London, but Moore dropped out a month before the opening. (He was already a 10-year survivor of prostate cancer.) He received a pacemaker at a New York hospital the next day. Exactly 50 years later he appeared as the mystery guest star in Hamish McColl and Sean Foley’s comedy “The Play What I Wrote” and collapsed onstage. In 1953 he had a small role in the British drama “A Pin to See the Peepshow,” which opened and closed on the same night. Moore’s only visits to Broadway were brief and, in different ways, unpleasant.
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No,” was released.) Moore also had the longest run in the role, beginning in 1973 with “Live and Let Die” and winding up in 1985 with “A View to a Kill.”ĭuring his tenure as James Bond, Moore played almost a score of unrelated acting roles, most notably “The Cannonball Run” (1981), the car-race comedy with Burt Reynolds, and the television movie “Sherlock Holmes in New York” (1976), in which he starred as Holmes and John Huston played Professor Moriarty. (Sean Connery, who originated the film character and with whom Moore was constantly compared, was 32 when the first Bond film, “Dr.
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Moore was the oldest Bond ever hired for films in the official series - although David Niven was in his 50s when he played Bond in the 1967 spoof “Casino Royale” - taking on the role when he was 45. With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today.
His family did not say where in Switzerland he died. The death, attributed to cancer, was confirmed in a family statement on Twitter. Roger Moore, the dapper British actor who brought tongue-in-cheek humor to the James Bond persona in seven films, eclipsing his television career, which had included starring roles in at least five series, died Tuesday in Switzerland.
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