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RIP Roger Moore

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Obviously in no way as shocking as recent events in Manchester, but he deserves a mention IMO.

RIP

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  • TheMarlinTheMarlin Frets: 7236
    I never liked him as Bond, but still liked him. 

    RIP Mr Bond. 
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    He was a nice bloke and epitomised the 80s as much as Duran Duran. RIP
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6284
    He's looked really ill/tired for quite a while. RIP Rog !
    Imagine something sharp and witty here ......

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  • cruxiformcruxiform Frets: 2339
    My favourite Bond film is Live and Let Die. RIP Rog.
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  • sweepysweepy Frets: 4005
    Great ambassador for UNICEF and tragically lost a stepdaughter at the age of 47  to Cancer as well, he'll always be Siman Templar
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3532
    The saint, he will be nearer to playing the part again. Always came across as a gentlemen with a sense of humour (and an active eyebrow). I though he was a likeable fellow, RIP Roger.
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  • proggyproggy Frets: 5721

    That's a shame, I love watching The saint and The Persuaders.

    RIP Roger.

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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24595
    RIP Roger .. liked him in the Persuaders .. good wet Sunday afternoon viewing in 1971 ..




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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    Yup, Roger Moore driving a white Lotus Esprit onto the beach - lowering the window and throwing out a fish. Classic! :)
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  • MayneheadMaynehead Frets: 1780
    RIP Roger Moore, Nobody Does It Better.
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  • Col_DeckerCol_Decker Frets: 2188
    cruxiform said:
    My favourite Bond film is Live and Let Die. RIP Rog.


    Best Bond film by a long way imo. I love it at the end when the baddie takes off his fake rubber face to reveal basically the same face underneath.


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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    And his various fights with Richard Keil ("Jaws").  What a couple of characters!
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    Seemed to have a great sense of humour and I liked his Bond ( even if Moonraker was awful), just about remember him in The Saint. Considering his fame doesn't seem to have been very prolific, perhaps he just got on with his normal life.RIP. 
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7208
    Oh so sad... I used to love this Sunday afters as a kid...



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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    RIP

    The Persuaders is repeated on Sky channel 183 most nights. He was actually quite good in it, Bond seemed t limit him somewhat.
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  • skunkwerxskunkwerx Frets: 6730
    He was a great guy. I have a picture of him with my friend when he did a 'bond on bond' book signing at work.. 

    Will have to dig it out. 

    Sean was my favourite bond, but Roger was just as good. Being a young un I really can't say I've seen him in much else though, although the saint boxsets have been in stock recently so I discovered that! 

    Rest in peace bud. 

    Be up there with Richard Keil on new adventures!
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24339
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4697
    Never mind The Saint, I remember him in Ivanhoe!

    RIP indeed.
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  • cj73cj73 Frets: 1002
    I always loved a bit of Rodger 



    seriously though, no mention yet of Wild Geese or North Sea Hijack?

    RIP Rodger. The eyebrow raises no more 
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    RIP :(.

    Not my favourite Bond, although he was the first one I saw - in The Spy Who Loved Me - but an all-round gentleman and a slightly better actor than he was probably given credit for or often used as.

    I think The Wild Geese was probably his best film.

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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    cj73 said:
    seriously though, no mention yet of Wild Geese or North Sea Hijack?
    I'd completely forgotten about those! I remember The Wild Geese as a kid.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192
    richardhomer said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.

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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24339
    Gassage said:
    richardhomer said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Really?

    I was referring to Roger Moore himself - though as I recall - he didn't play Bond with much of a Scottish accent....
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  • mellowsunmellowsun Frets: 2422
    The Wild Geese was one of the greatest 'men on a mission' movies ever made. Hilariously awful but thoroughly entertaining.
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 5837
    Hilariously awful but thoroughly entertaining.

    Sums up most of Roger Moore's movies. A life well lived for all that.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    Gassage said:
    richardhomer said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Only when Ian Fleming re-wrote him to be so after seeing Connery in the role. He wasn't originally - and initially, Fleming didn't like the choice of Connery, until he saw the first film.

    Nevertheless Moore wasn't Fleming's concept of Bond either. If anything Dalton may have been the closest, but his version worked less well on screen for some reason.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    ICBM said:
    Gassage said:
    richardhomer said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Only when Ian Fleming re-wrote him to be so after seeing Connery in the role. He wasn't originally - and initially, Fleming didn't like the choice of Connery, until he saw the first film.

    Nevertheless Moore wasn't Fleming's concept of Bond either. If anything Dalton may have been the closest, but his version worked less well on screen for some reason.
    IIRC Bond was half Scottish, half Swiss ( although born in Scotland) apparently. I'm not sure it was particularly obvious in the novels although it's explored a lot in the young Bond books (I read the first couple). Moore lived a lot of his life in Switzerland which is a sort of connection. 
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • bingefellerbingefeller Frets: 5723
    RIP, one of my favourite Bonds.   
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  • cj73cj73 Frets: 1002
    ICBM said:
    Gassage said:
    richardhomer said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Only when Ian Fleming re-wrote him to be so after seeing Connery in the role. He wasn't originally - and initially, Fleming didn't like the choice of Connery, until he saw the first film.

    Nevertheless Moore wasn't Fleming's concept of Bond either. If anything Dalton may have been the closest, but his version worked less well on screen for some reason.
    That's because he played a cold, hard, unlikeble bas**rd.....kinda like Fleming wrote it.


    Can you tell it's my fav bond film?
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192

    I have lowered my eyebrows to half mast as a mark of respect.

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