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7 times Roger Moore wowed us as James Bond

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Danny Kemp, Agence France-Presse

<p>LONDON -- British actor Roger Moore was never one to boast about his acting ability but then the facts spoke for themselves -- he played James Bond in more films than any other man.</p><p>Known for his ironically raised eyebrow and deadpan quips, Moore&#x27;s take on the suave superspy was more tongue-in-cheek than that of his manly predecessor Sean Connery.</p><p>But he outgunned Connery and all the other actors to have played 007 by taking the role he fondly called &quot;Jimmy Bond&quot; in a record number of seven films.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m not that cold-blooded killer type. Which is why I play it mostly for laughs,&quot; he once said.</p><p>Moore said in his autobiography he had been approached about playing James Bond, novelist Ian Fleming&#x27;s fictional secret agent, as early as 1967.</p><p>But it was not until 1973 that he finally won the role -- despite, at 45, being two and a half years older than Connery, the man he replaced.</p><p>Moore made his debut in &quot;Live and Let Die,&quot; after the producers made him lose weight, get fit and cut his hair. </p><p>He followed it with &quot;The Man With the Golden Gun&quot; (1974), &quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&quot; (1977), &quot;Moonraker&quot; (1979), &quot;For Your Eyes Only&quot; (1981) and &quot;Octopussy&quot; (1983) before </p><p>He bowed out after &quot;A View to a Kill&quot; in 1985, when he was 57.</p><p>&quot;Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films,&quot; Moore said at a ceremony to award him a star on Hollywood&#x27;s &quot;Walk of Fame&quot;, just ahead of his 80th birthday. &quot;The girls were getting younger and I was just getting too old.&quot;</p><p>Moore said his most enjoyable Bond experience came in &quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&quot;, memorable for a cast of villains that included &quot;Jaws&quot; played by Richard Kiel -- who died in 2014 -- and gadgets including a Lotus Esprit sports car which doubled as a submarine.</p><p>&quot;I think &#x27;The Spy Who Loved Me&#x27; was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most,&quot; Moore told AFP in an email interview in 2007. &quot;It had great locations. And I was exceedingly happy working with Lewis Gilbert, the director.&quot;</p><p>He had less fun with the actress Grace Jones on &quot;A View to a Kill.&quot; &quot;I&#x27;ve always said that if you&#x27;ve nothing nice to say about someone, then you should say nothing. So I&#x27;ll say nothing,&quot; he recalled.</p><p>While fans debate which actor proved to be the best incarnation of 007, Moore revealed he had never discussed the subject with the other actors.</p><p>Even when Connery emerged from retirement in 1983 to appear in the &#x27;unofficial&#x27; Bond film &quot;Never Say Never Again&quot; -- released in the same year as Moore&#x27;s &quot;Octopussy&quot; -- the two actors did not discuss the subject.</p><p>That was partly due to a mutual friend, Michael Caine, advising them not to be suckered into joining a media-driven &quot;Battle of the Bonds.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Sean and I never discussed our experiences... not even with the leading ladies!&quot; Moore said. &quot;Actors don&#x27;t really sit around discussing the parts they&#x27;ve played -- just in case someone says &#x27;That was crap!&#x27;&quot;</p><p>But he later admitted he was a big fan of the current Bond, British actor Daniel Craig.</p><p>&quot;Daniel Craig is the hardest, then Sean,&quot; he said in an interview.</p><p>Here are the seven James Bond films of Roger Moore.</p><p>&quot;Live and Let Die&quot; (1873)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ch-pG2mUQGk" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>&quot;The Man With the Golden Gun&quot; (1974)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gF5fr3Zhi7E" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>&quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&quot; (1977)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UBxG_TJvYTg" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>&quot;Moonraker&quot; (1979)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KFOOjYU16KE" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>&quot;For Your Eyes Only&quot; (1981) </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e0iF8TCk4Fw" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>&quot;Octopussy&quot; (1983)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IwHbCvXMbS8" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>&quot;A View to a Kill&quot; (1985)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/buOK9kJIJA4" width="560"></iframe></figure>

<p>British actor Roger Moore played James Bond in more films than any other man.</p><p> </p>

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7 times Roger Moore wowed us as James Bond

Danny Kemp,

Agence France-Presse

Published May 24, 2017 12:46 PM PHT

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