![]() He was in Drawing-Room Detective on TV and appeared in the films One Wild Oat and Honeymoon Deferred (both 1951). He had uncredited parts in films including Paper Orchid and The Interrupted Journey (both 1949). Other actors in the show included Clive Morton and Betty Ann Davies. In his book Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown, Moore states that his first television appearance was on 27 March 1949 in The Governess by Patrick Hamilton, a live broadcast (as usual in that era), in which he played the minor part of Bob Drew. Other early uncredited appearances include Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Gaiety George, Piccadilly Incident (both 1946), and Trottie True (1949), in which he appeared alongside an uncredited Christopher Lee (both actors being cast by Brian Desmond Hurst as stage-door Johnnies). Moore made his professional debut in Alexander Korda's Perfect Strangers (1945) alongside actors Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, and Glynis Johns. There he looked after entertainers for the armed forces passing through Hamburg. He was an officer in the Combined Services Entertainment section, eventually becoming a captain commanding a small depot in West Germany. On 21 September 1946, he was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps as a second lieutenant. Īt 18, shortly after the end of the Second World War, Moore was conscripted for national service. During his time there, he developed the Mid-Atlantic accent and relaxed demeanour that became his screen persona. Moore spent three terms at RADA, where he was a classmate of his future Bond co-star Lois Maxwell, the original Miss Moneypenny. ![]() While there, Moore attracted an off-camera female fan following, and Hurst decided to pay Moore's fees at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. When his father investigated a robbery at the home of film director Brian Desmond Hurst, Moore was introduced to the director and hired as an extra for the 1945 film Caesar and Cleopatra. Moore was apprenticed to an animation studio, but was fired after he made a mistake with some animation cels. He was further educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He attended Battersea Grammar School, but was evacuated to Holsworthy in Devon during the Second World War, and attended Launceston College in Cornwall. His mother was born in Calcutta, India, to an English family. He was the only child of George Alfred Moore (1904–1997), a policeman based in Bow Street, London, and Lillian "Lily" Pope (1904–1986). Roger Moore was born on 14 October 1927 in Stockwell, London. He was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2008. In 2007, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. ![]() Moore was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for services to charity. Continuing to act on screen in the decades after his retirement from the Bond franchise, Moore's final appearance was in a pilot for a new Saint series that became a 2017 television film. ![]() He also had roles in American series, including Beau Maverick on the Western Maverick (1960–1961), in which he replaced James Garner as the lead, and a co-lead, with Tony Curtis, in the action-comedy The Persuaders! (1971–1972). On television, Moore played the lead role of Simon Templar, the title character in the British mystery thriller series The Saint (1962–1969). However, this record is tied by Sean Connery if the non-Eon-produced Never Say Never Again (1983) is included. Moore's seven appearances as Bond, from Live and Let Die to A View to a Kill, are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries. ![]() He was the third actor to portray fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions/ MGM Studios film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 19. Sir Roger George Moore KBE (14 October 1927 – ) was an English actor. ![]()
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