Roger Moore Passes Away at 89

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Former James Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore died of cancer on May 23, 2017. He was just a few months short of turning 90.

Roger Moore was 45 years old when he signed on to play James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973.) In fact, he was three years older than Sean Connery, who had given up being Bond. Even though he was the longest serving Bond, twelve years and seven films, and the oldest to play Bond, everybody would think of him as an eternal second favorite Bond.

He had been voted twice as ‘The Best Bond.’

Roger Moore was such a natural fit to be James Bond which was often believed that it was him and not Sean Connery, who was the first option to play the agent with ‘a license to kill.’

Moore was 58 when he retired as James Bond. Connery often bewailed that playing Bond destroyed his life but Moore never said any such thing. Moore once said that he enjoyed being a highly paid actor, and act he did!

How else do you explain a man who was a hypochondriac and hated heights, guns or explosions still be Bond, James Bond? To this, Roger Moore simply said, “Ah, well that’s where the acting comes in you see! I look incredibly brave, but I’m very, very good at getting people to look like me.”