Moore In 1973
Roger George Moore KBE (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985. 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.
On television, Moore played the lead role of Simon Templar, the title character in the British mystery thriller series The Saint (1962–1969). 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). 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.
Moore was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for services to charity. In 2007, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. He was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2008.
Pink Panther[]
Roger Moore played Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983). He appears in the conclusion of the film, which resolves the "search for Clouseau" storyline by revealing that the inspector had undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance to that of Moore (who proceeds to impersonate Peter Sellers' version of the character).
Trivia[]
- Peter Sellers' ex-wife Britt Ekland played the main Bond girl in Roger Moore's James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun.
- The name featured during the closing credits of Curse of the Pink Panther, "Turk Thrust II", was a pseudonym for Roger Moore. The name was a nod to Moore's friend Bryan Forbes, who often used the name "Turk Thrust" when playing cameos in his own movies. Forbes was actually billed as "Turk Thrust" in A Shot In The Dark, in which he played an attendant at the nudist camp.
- Moore's appearance in the Curse was the second time in two years in which he appeared on screen spoofing his James Bond image; in the 1981 film Cannonball Run, he played a race contestant pretending to be Roger Moore pretending to be James Bond.