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Roger Moore
born: 14-10-1927
birth place: Stockwell, South London

Moore was onto a winner, playing Bond in a light-hearted way, a bit ‘tongue in cheek’, and went on to star in six more Bond films over the next twelve years. They were: ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974), ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ (1977), ‘Moonraker’ (1979), ‘For Your Eyes Only’ (1981), ‘Octopussy’ (1983) and ‘A View to a Kill’ (1985). Moore was in fact the oldest actor to debut as Bond, he was 46 at the time of ‘Live and Let Die’ (1973) and when he made his last, ‘A View to a Kill’ (1985), he was 58 and looking a little too old for Bond. He was also beginning to feel uncomfortable playing love scenes with women young enough to be his daughters. Connery had been 52 for his last Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’ (1983). Moore officially announced his retirement from playing Bond on 3rd December 1985.

In between the Bond movies, he had successes in films such as ‘That Lucky Touch’ (1975) with Susanna York; ‘Shout at the Devil’ (1976), based on the Wilbur Smith novel of the same name; war drama ‘The Wild Geese’ (1978); adventure/thriller ‘North Sea Hijack (1979); and ‘Escape to Athena’ (1979) with David Niven, Telly Savalas and Stefanie Powers. In 1980, he won a Golden Globe award for World Film Favourite, Male. Moore’s appeal was riding the crest of the wave but his big break into the US market came with ‘The Cannonball Run’ (1981), about an illegal cross-country car race, in which Moore parodies his Bond role. A huge hit in America, the film had a huge cast of stars including Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Fonda and Jackie Chan.

Following the end of his Bond role, Moore’s film work diminished somewhat and he was cast in a number of box office flops, such as ‘Feuer, Eis & Dynamite’ (1990) (Fire, Ice and Dynamite), comedy ‘Bullseye!’ (1990) with Michael Caine, ‘The Man Who Wouldn’t Die’ (1994) (TV) and as Lord Edgar Dobbs in ‘The Quest’ (1996) with Jean-Claude van Damme. He had second-rate roles in ‘Spice World’ (1997) and ‘The Dream Team’ (1999), an American television series. Despite his film work having slowed down, he was still very much in the public eye, on television chat shows and hosting documentaries and award ceremonies. His personal life was somewhat troubled and, after 27 years of marriage, he and Luisa Mattioli divorced in 1996.

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