Sad to see him go. He got stuck with the silliest of the Bond movies, but I always enjoyed him in them. I think For Your Eyes Only was the least campy movie they handed him, but I also loved the end to Man With the Golden Gun. I have to say I much prefer his older work as Simon Templar. Maybe I’ll do a really long binge of Moore stuff.
Roger was the James Bond that I grew up with. He made the best of the role considering the weak scripts.
I don’t know his other work.
I always had a good time watching him as Bond.
R.I.P.
He was my Bond I suppose, being the first I was old enough to go and see the films at the cinema. For Your Eyes Only and The Spy Who Loved Me still hold up as superior Bond films I think.
But Sir Roger always seemed like a really decent chap too, his many years working for UNICEF testament to that, and also his self-deprecating style, with a twinkle in his eye, in interviews.
Apologies for the twitter link, but it contains an excellent Roger Moore anecdote
His films were fun and he looked like he had fun making them.
I enjoyed 'Live and Let Die" a great deal.
RIP Roger Moore
You know, very few people say Moore was their favorite James Bond. I wouldn’t either. And yet, I had fun watching ALL but one of Moore’s Bond flicks (***The Man With the Golden Gun ***was terrible).
No, Moore wasn’t the lethal assassin of Ian Fleming’s books, but so what? There are a lot of ways to play Bond, just as there are a lot of ways to play Batman. The campy Adam West approach to Batman is as valid as the Dark Knight approach, and at least as enjoyable. And Roger Moore’s wink-wink-nudge-nudge approach to Bond is as valid as the Connery/Craig approach.
Moore made me laugh. Hard. A lot. So, he’ll always be okay in my book.
I think I liked the Moore interpretation of Bond more than most. IMO Bond is inherently ridiculous and is best played with a light touch. The Craig films have their strengths but have become too solemn and dreary for my taste.
Unfortunately I read the books first, so he was not “Simon Templar” to me.
I loved Moore. Granted, I was a kid to teenager when I saw the Bond movies, but I loved his the best, probably because they did have that cartoon hero touch to them. Since I haven’t seen any of them again as an adult, I have no idea how much I would agree with my young self, but I assume tongue-in-cheek was is part of the Bond franchise, no? If not, the Moore all the way; I don’t have to rewatch them.
I loved Moore in the Saint, he made driving a Volvo cool. He, along with David Niven, seemed to be the kind of Englishmen that would be a blast to hang with. Suave, debonair, witty, chick magnet 
and generous person. RIP Sir Roger…
I recently rewatched all of the Bond movies in order. One thing that stood out to me was the Moore era movies had an excess number of ski chases, and I wondered if it was because Roger liked to ski.
Like others have said, he was my first Bond so he will always be Bond to me.
Ivanhoe was one of the first TV series I watched as a young child. After each episode, I would take my toy sword and run through the streets singing IVANHOE! IVANHOE!
RIP Sir Roger.
He was not my favorite Bond, but I enjoyed his movies.
I liked him in a number of non-Bond movies: Shout at the Devil, The Wild Geese, Escape to Athena, ffoulkes, The Sea Wolves.
I enjoyed when he parodied himself in Cannonball Run and when he played Clouseau in Curse of the Pink Panther
Dumb coincidence: I bought a bottle of Coke Zero to drink with my lunch today. For some reason Coke puts names on the bottles for the summer. I turned the bottle around while eating my lunch and the name on it was “Moore”.
OooooooWEEEEEEEEEOoooooo
Well that was the one cool Volvo ever made anyway 
OTOH he could not do the same for an AMC as Bond, he was only human.
Especially in his later Bonds he had to carry a lot of really awful writing and did so with aplomb, mostly, which is a credit to him. He could do it quite well when things clicked together.
From all I’ve read and heard a fine gentleman and performer.
RIP, Roger, if you run into Desmond tell him you blew yourself up with one of his gadgets, it’ll make his day.
If his interpretation of the Bond character might have been jarring compared to Connery’s, the stunt work, at least, in Moore’s Bond movies was always top-notch. Seemed they were always setting records of one kind or another in them, from the world’s longest boat jump in Live and Let Die, to the 360 car barrel roll jump in The Man With the Golden Gun, to base jumping off a 2000 foot cliff on Baffin Island.
I liked watching Moore, pretty much no matter what he did. As mentioned earlier in the thread by someone, his acting reminded me of David Niven in a lot of ways.
RIP Sir Roger. You were always my best Bond.
When they began filming Doctor No, Ian Fleming thought Sean Connery was completely wrong for the role; he wanted either David Niven or Roger Moore.
What, not Cary Grant?
Didn’t he eventually think that Timothy Dalton pegged it when The Living Daylights came out? Thought I remember reading that somewhere.
I think Connery, at least in the first two or three movies, captured the ‘blunt instrument’ nature of Bond better than anyone up to Craig. I can’t imagine what movie audiences must have thought when they first saw the, “That’s a Smith and Wesson. And you’ve had your six,” scene. Especially the coup de grace shot. I mean, not taking the guy alive? Even worse, making sure the bad guy is dead? Mind blown.
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