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Today doesn't get any better 🙁
Best Bond ever. 😥
<raises eyebrow>
Roger no Moore.
Classic Bond, forever the Gentleman.
I, for one, will never forget the Spitting Image clip of his "raised eyebrows" He took it in good heart, which enstilled his class.
Rest well.
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Nooooooooooo! 😥
A good age. He entertained millions with those eyebrows.
Reminded me of my old man in his later years. Rog was cool.
Should've had the Persuaders in my top 10 TV Programmes, me and my brother loved it when we were nippers. He was Brett and I was Danny.
Still got this (apologies for massive pic!)
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RIP Lord Brett
The way you lot are going on, you'd think he was a Saint.
A thoroughly good egg, by all accounts. Know some people who know him, and they all speak very highly of him.
His first and his last bond films were the best imo.
...when you were young and your heart was an open book...
Like Dez, grew up with The Persuaders, which was my fave prog at the time, The Saint was great, loved him in the Bond films, especially in The Spy who loved me. What a great 89 years he had!
Roger was perfect as a slightly cheesy 70's/80's Bond, and was part of my childhood.
RIP Roger Moore.
My favourite Bond 🙁
R.I.P Mr Moore
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Very funny and intelligent man.
His clip with Victoria Wood, performed in The London Eye, is a comedy classic.
Got to be one the classic opening scenes
Still makes me chuckle... (dang, skip to 2m 3s manually)
Just saw this on the news, crap 🙁
Bond of my childhood and from whom I learn't to be so expressive with my eyebrows.
He had a fantastic career. RIP
Got to be one the classic opening scenes
Love that watch print out. No-one think back then that the watch screen could be used to display it?
Aah bummer! Always loved Roger Moore's bond, and he always seemed a decent happy chap.
RIP Mr Bond/Moore.
Bond of my childhood, when it was played for laughs. The closing scene in Moonraker still makes me giggle like schoolboy "I think he's attempting re-entry sir "
A humble man who brought a lot of joy to an awful lot of people.
Roger was perfect as a slightly cheesy 70's/80's Bond, and was part of my childhood.
RIP Roger Moore.
Mine too, thanks for all the fun times you gave me.
Very sad... the Bond of my youth (and IMHO the best!).
RIP Sir Rog.
Worked with my Grandfather on several films including Live and Let Die, Shout at the Devil, Gold and The Sea Wolves. I believe they counted each other as friends.
RIP Sir Roger.
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RIP Roger, I don't think you were the best Bond but I'll never forget you as Ramirez in Highlander.
Roger Moore. From now onward - in his honour, I shall try. 😉
Very watchable as Bond, the Saint or with Tony Curtis in the deliciously cheesy Persuaders. Also great in the Sea Wolves as mentioned above.
schrickvr6 - Member
RIP Roger, I don't think you were the best Bond but I'll never forget you as Ramirez in Highlander
Wasn't that big Sean?
but I'll never forget you as Ramirez in Highlander.
That was Sean not Roger .
Looks like Wild Geese is going on when I get home and the kids are in bed
RIP Roger, I don't think you were the best Bond but I'll never forget you as Ramirez in Highlander.
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From Facebook:
As an seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"
As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.
I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.
Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.
And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
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Good innings that he had. Not a great Bond fan, but he seemed like a thoroughly nice chap.
He lived in a huge haunted mansion near wrexham when i lived in Wrexham, used to cycle past it fast as was told it was haunted, probably to keep visitors away.
He also lived in a designer house in Heswall wirral,
I found the source for metalheart's story. And he's doing something very very cool with it.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Marc-Haynes
Thanks for that story Metalheart, needed that this week.
What an absolute gent.
Money grabbing bastards, I've just been stung.... 😉
Thanks for linking cougar (ye fud)...
PSA.
Roger Moore's best film (in his opinion)
It's on the Horror Channel on freeview this evening at 18:40
Classic
I remember that film as a child. It was pretty good.
Allegedly he used to live in edenfield (Rossendale) in that fancy house tucked away between the Coach & Horses and what used to be the post office
I thought that was Ken Barlow?
Ken Barlow was Haslingden,
I sit corrected.
(This chair has lumbar support.)
I worked in Haslingden for a couple of years. I wonder if the 21st century has arrived yet
I worked in Haslingden for a couple of years. I wonder if the 21st century has arrived yet
Yeah. Tis a strange place is Hazzy. And I'm from Bacup. 🙂