Pretty much what the headline says.
EDIT: Tweet from ABC News containing a statement from his children confirming his death.
Shit! 
He’ll always be Simon Templar to me.
RIP, Roger!
His Bond was the one I grew up with. A lot of Bond fans prefer Connery and Craig for their “toughness”, but I’ve always liked the sophisticated wittiness that Moore brought to the role (though Brosnan is my favorite, overall). Possibly my all-time favorite Bond scene:
One of my earliest movie memories is the submarine Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me. I was only like 4 or 5 at the time (pre-cable, and we never went out to the movie theater so we were most likely watching it on broadcast TV). Of course I understood absolutely nothing that was happening, but that image stuck and has remained with me my whole life.
His Bond movies were, overall, super-cheesy, but they were also exceptionally memorable, containing some of the most iconic and well-known gadgets and villians, all things that makes me love them most.
I loved him in ffolkes.
Is he the first movie Bond (in the official canon) to die? I seem to recall it being an unusual case that they were all still alive after all this time.
RIP
His Bond movies were probably the worst ones but they were the ones I grew up with so they were my favorites.
Ditto.
I think he could have been the best Bond if he started younger and was in the better movies.
Sad to see another familiar face go. Never cared for him as Bond, I was always a Connery man, but I did really like him as The Saint on TV.
Yes, if you don’t count David Niven (as you don’t) from Casino Royale. Or Barry Nelson from the 1950s version of Casino Royale. I’m sure other folks who have played Bond in other media have died, too. But Moore is, AFAIK, the first of the EON Productions Bonds to go.
I wasn’t a big fan of Moore’s Bond, although he wasn’t responsible for the direction the series went. He was very good in For Your Eyes Only and the first third or so of Octopussy, the best of the Bond roles he’d been given.
Like many of the other Bonds, he tried to differentiate himself from the role afterwards so he wouldn’t be typecast, and largely succeeded, with ffolkes and others. But he did keep coming back to the role, playing pretty much the same character in Cannonball Run and voicing Lazenby (!) in Cats and Dogs: The REvenge of Kitty Galore, among other things.
Yeah, I remember him as The Saint, and in THe Persuaders. I was too young to recall his other TV roles.
Bob Holness was the first to play him on the radio I believe. But there are so many rumours about Bob that it’s hard to be sure. Was this one true, but the sax on Baker Street was a lie?
As someone described him, ‘The Smirk that Swallowed James Bond Whole’.
I grew up with the Roger Moore films too. Watching them again, many are just right for a child. High camp and slapstick. Not to mention the blatant misogyny. Nevertheless, Roger Moore will forever be a Bond, and his films, as bad as they are compared to others in the franchise, remain iconic.
[drops into karate stance]
“I must warn you . . . I’m Roger Moore.”
[/drops into karate stance]
Moore will always be The Saint to me, too. I enjoyed his Bond films, but they were really played as if he was Simon Templar working for British intelligence. Which may have contributed to the common misconception that the Saint was some kind of detective rather than a law-breaker who went after criminals mostly for the sport of it.
***Eyes *** was by far the best of Moore’s Bond movies. He also had a cameo in Val Kilmer’s The Saint, as the radio newscaster at the end.
Not too long ago (around Christmas or Easter, I guess), I saw him narrating a documentary about the Holy Land.
The Persuaders was a good series. I wish it had lasted longer (the theme music gives me chills).
One role he played that is seldom mentioned nowadays is the mercenary in Wild Geese, opposite Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and Stewart Granger. That was one helluva movie, even with the silly overnight conversion of the South African.
Good time to pull the Volvo out for a spin.
He was in the TV show Maverick as Bret and Bart’s cousin, Beau. They explained away his accent by having him be recently returned from England, where his pappy had sent him away to school.
I liked him, but a comedian once called him “James Bond Lite” and that’s always stuck in my head.