| Roger Moore  AKA Roger George Moore
Born: 14-Oct-1927
Birthplace: Stockwell, London, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: James Bond after Sean Connery Military service: Military Intelligence (required National Service, 2nd Lt.) Roger Moore grew up in London, and lived through the blitz during WWII. As a young man, he worked as a model and, briefly, as a draftsman, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his film debut with a tiny role as a soldier in two 1945 films, Caesar and Cleopatra with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh and Perfect Strangers with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr. But Moore was mostly seen as a TV actor, after starring as Ivanhoe in a 1958-59 series, and The Alaskans the following season. When James Garner refused to play Bret on Maverick in 1961, Moore was brought in to star as his cousin Beauregarde. Moore and Tony Curtis were The Persuaders in the early 1970s.
Moore is best remembered on the small screen as Simon Templar, the lead spy in The Saint, which prefigured his role as James Bond. Moore made dozens of movies, but none were particularly memorable until Sean Connery refused to reprise his role as James Bond, and Moore became 007 in Live and Let Die (1973). Moore was three years older than Connery, and in Moore's final Bond film, A View To A Kill in 1985, he was 58, making him the oldest actor to play Bond. Moore's Bond was seen as somewhat silly, with wisecracks always at the ready, many of which were improvised by Moore.
Father: George Moore (London policeman)
Mother: Lillian Pope (housewife)
Wife: Doorn Van Steyn (ice skater, b. 1932, m. 9-Dec-1946, div. 1953)
Wife: Dorothy Squires (singer, b. 25-Mar-1915, m. 6-Jul-1953, div. 1968, d. 1995 cancer)
Wife: Luisa Mattioli (actress, m. 11-Apr-1969, div. 1996, one daughter, two sons)
Son: Geoffrey Robert Moore (restaurateur, b. 28-Jul-1966)
Daughter: Deborah Moore (actress, b. 27-Oct-1963)
Son: Christian Moore (b. 1973)
Wife: Kristina Tholstrup ("Kiki", Danish stewardess, b. 1942, dated 1996-2002, m. 10-Mar-2002)
Golden Globe 1980 for World Film Favorite, Male
Commander of the British Empire 1999
Knight of the British Empire June 2003 during Queen's Birthday Honors
UNICEF Celebrity spokesman
Endorsement of Toyota
James Bond
Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer, Former Smoker, Pacemaker
TELEVISION
The Persuaders Lord Brett Sinclair (1971-72)
The Saint Simon Templar (1962-69)
Maverick Beau Maverick (1960-61)
Ivanhoe Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe (1958-59)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Boat Trip (4-Oct-2002)
Spice World (15-Dec-1997)
The Saint (4-Apr-1997) [VOICE]
The Quest (19-Apr-1996)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (29-May-1995)
Bullseye! (28-Aug-1991)
Fire, Ice & Dynamite (18-Oct-1990)
A View to a Kill (24-May-1985)
The Naked Face (1984)
Curse of the Pink Panther (13-Aug-1983)
Octopussy (6-Jun-1983)
For Your Eyes Only (25-Jun-1981)
The Cannonball Run (19-Jun-1981)
Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse (3-Oct-1980)
North Sea Hijack (1-Mar-1980)
Moonraker (27-Jun-1979)
Escape to Athena (16-Feb-1979)
The Wild Geese (11-Nov-1978)
The Spy Who Loved Me (7-Jul-1977)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (18-Oct-1976)
Shout at the Devil (23-Jul-1976)
The Man with the Golden Gun (18-Dec-1974)
Gold (7-Sep-1974)
Live and Let Die (27-Jun-1973)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
The Sins of Rachel Cade (10-Feb-1961)
The Miracle (12-Nov-1959)
The King's Thief (5-Aug-1955)
Interrupted Melody (25-Mar-1955)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (18-Nov-1954)
Official Website:
http://www.roger-moore.com/
Author of books:
My Word is My Bond: A Memoir (2008)
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