From Roger Moore with Love (2024)

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New Orleans, October 1972.

I've arrived in America

to begin playing

the biggest role of my life.

This is me

newly Bond-ed in Live and Let Die.

Suave and skilled,

even though I say it myself

outmanoeuvring the baddies

at breakneck speed.

It's my first time in a power boat

and learning to corner

one of these powerful beasts

at 60 miles an hour takes nerves of steel.

I wouldn't say I'm out of

my depth but the water is, er

tickling my n*pples.

They say when death is imminent

your entire life flashes

in front of your eyes.

The only thing flashing before my eyes

was a large corrugated shed.

I knew I was going to hit it

and there wasn't a damned thing

I could do about it.

I would end up in a heap on

the floor, clutching my mouth

my knee throbbing, my shoulder numb.

Here I was, about to start

playing James Bond

with no teeth.

But that's just a little taste

of what's to come.

It's not where this story starts.

So, where do we begin?

Over to my son Geoffrey

who's rooting round my old house.

I mean, this is basically Roger's

our shrine of the old man.

These are Roger's ashes.

Oy, oy, oy.

Nope.

No. No.

Hang about.

Ooh, I think this is it.

I think my eyesight

has really gone

because I can't focus anymore.

Get that camera away from me.

This must be about 40 tapes.

Well, hello, Mr Moore.

Come on, sweetie

do myself Ha-ha, that's me!

Ooh, cars! Quickly, quickly, quickly!

Daddy, get on the Ferrari!

Oh, sh*t!

What was that you were saying, Maud

about not being able to eat anymore?

It keeps flashing up,

there's not enough light.

Oh, let's come into the light, darling!

Go, Maud.

Terrific.

I lived a pretty glamorous life

somehow becoming one

of the world's most famous

and desirable stars.

When people asked me about

the biggest character I played

I always answered.

"Of course, it's the

world's most loved spy."

Oh, James.

But my greatest creation?

Ladies and

gentlemen, Roger Moore.

- Mr Roger Moore.

- Roger Moore.

Well the truth is, my greatest creation

was somebody called Roger Moore.

This is me.

Well the truth is, my greatest creation

was somebody called Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Roger Moore.

Ah!

Roger Moore.

Well, the first time I met Roger

I came home from school

standing in the hallway

of our apartment flat

in Great Portland Street

which also doubled

as my father's agency

because he had the Will Collins Agency

was this incredibly

handsome young man.

And I almost went weak at

the knees, he walked towards me

and said, "Oh, you must be Joan.

My name's Roger Moore."

I think I was swinging my satchel

I said, "Yes, hi, how are you?"

My manager called me on the phone

and said, "Gloria, they want

to see you for a Bond movie"

I said, "Oh, you're kidding."

And Roger walks in,

I said "Oh, my God!"

And I said, "Gloria, be calm."

He was so handsome.

He just has "it".

When he looks at you, you feel like

he's just looking at you and no one else.

As a woman, you just go "Wow."

I was 11 years of age

and we went to Battersea Park,

Mum and my dad

Roger was there signing autographs.

And I queued up.

That's how I met Roger Moore.

The only man's autograph I ever got.

When they asked me

about this interview.

I thought, well, you know,

to talk about people I know.

I'm not so crazy

about doing that, generally.

But in the case of Roger

you know, Roger was so good-natured.

He was so generous as an actor

on the set, with his time

and his hospitality

I thought this was an opportunity

to, you know, say thanks.

It was my birthday.

It's like 8 o'clock in

the morning and I get a call:

I said, "Thank you for calling me

I'm lying in bed naked."

He went, "So am I!"

I said, "It's a shame we're not together."

He said, "I know!"

And I thought,

"I'm flirting with James Bond!"

You shut your eyes.

Bang!

That's the way you sh**t - OK.

If you don't want to play Bond.

If you want to play Bond, you

just sh**t - bang! Like that.

Like Bond Immediately?

- Immediately.

- Can you do it from the back?

What, like that?

Mm-hmm - Of course.

What else can he do?

Make love.

You may think

I was born wearing black tie

and cradling a martini

but nothing could be further

from the truth.

I was born in October 1927 in Stockwell

then a working-class area

of South London.

There I am!

Look at those cheeks.

Ripe for squeezing.

Lily, his

mother, was a kind, nice woman.

She was extraordinarily

beautiful, you know.

You could see where Roger came from.

And she was

a lovely looking woman, yeah

George was a bluff old policeman

playing his banjo

around the place, you know.

They weren't rich.

They were working class.

My grandmother worked in a tearoom

and my grandfather was,

you know, on the beat.

One would suspect

if you're from that strata.

you'd be talking like this

I thought all those people talk like that.

And you're terribly, "Helloooo."

You know what I mean?

I don't want to say you're pretentious.

No, no, no, that would be wrong.

But my father was

a very posh policeman, you see.

Was he?

From

an early age I perfected the art

of pretending to listen

50% of the actor's craft.

At school, I sailed through

my exams, orals and all.

Was I a little chubby?

Maybe.

But when they called me

"tall, fat and ugly"

that was a little harsh.

By 17, I was shy and gangly

and didn't know what I was

going to do with my life.

But a simple twist of fate

on a dark and stormy night

would bring me my big break

in the shape of my first real mentor

film director Brian Desmond Hurst.

Roger's father was investigating

a robbery at Brian Desmond

Hurst's house in Belgravia.

He was just going through

the interactions that happen

as a policeman visiting a victim

and then somehow into that

and Roger never explained exactly how

he was introduced

to Brian Desmond Hurst.

He was a flamboyant, g*y,

Oscar-Wildean man

Brian at the time was in his first

kind of flush of success as a filmmaker.

But he was also someone

who loved young men.

Caesar

and Cleopatra was an epic film

with a huge budget.

As director, Brian could do what he liked.

And what he liked

was Roger Moore in a toga.

Can you see me

in this cast of thousands?

No, neither can I.

So that's my origin story

a starstruck father

and a Roman miniskirt

I don't know what Brian thought

was beneath it

but I owe everything to his imagination.

Anyway, let's just say that

by the time I became famous

I had learned to embellish things a little.

And either I had a long spear,

or a short toga

but I was noticed,

you know, by the director

who said, you know,

"Do you want to be an actor?"

Why not?

Clearly, Brian Desmond Hurst

saw something inside me.

I know what you're thinking,

and it wasn't that.

He became a mentor to me.

OK, it was a little "My Fair Lady"

but through Brian, I learned how to dress

how to hold a room, and how to tell a tale.

He spoke with my father

and even offered

to pay my fees for drama school.

I was going to RADA

I went to The Royal Academy

of Dramatic Art.

Where they taught me, I suppose,

to speak posh.

RADA concentrated a lot on elocution.

You had to have

received English pronunciation

upper-class accent.

Do you know,

I loved RADA for two reasons.

First, I developed "the voice"

which would eventually become

my trademark.

And second?

Almost all of my classmates were female.

I may not have

learned much about acting

but I did begin to unravel

the mysteries of the fairer sex.

One of them would become

my first wife, Doorn van Steyn.

By God, for the next 8 years,

that woman had me in a spin.

There's a box full of treasures here.

A lot of secrets in this box.

My name is Shaun van Steyn.

My mother married Roger Moore

and he became my stepfather.

Here's some love letters.

"Darling Doorny, precious heart."

I'd love to hold you, and kiss you

and feel your baby body in my arms.

You snooker little angel puss!

Oh God, yellow p*ssy!

How I should like

to spank your wonderful

pimply goose-flesh bottom!

Well, darling precious,

goodnight and God bless you.

Your own ever-loving,

ever-faithful husband, Roger.

"P.S. I'd love to bite your bottom!"

Yes, thank you, Shaun.

No one wants to hear this.

What can I say?

I was smitten and she was bitten.

My mother was

vivacious and mesmerising.

He was besotted with her.

She was six years older than him.

She liked the young studs,

what can I say?

Here's a picture of her

ice-skating in Monte Carlo.

That was her passion, she loved it.

He learned to skate just to be next to her

Roger was dish washing.

Anything he could find

to make a few pence.

Doorn was busy

ice-skating around the world.

So he was my mother and my father.

This wasn't quite what

RADA had trained me for.

He used to take me

to Clapham Common

help me sail my little

toy yacht that he bought me

18 years old.

You think back to when you were 18

you didn't want to be lumbered with a kid.

So sweet, gentle, kind.

He was my hero.

Doorn was constantly away,

and when we did see each other

she harangued me about

my dreams of becoming an actor.

She once told me,

"You'll never be an actor."

Your face is too weak

"your jaw is too big

and your mouth's too small."

How kind.

Intense love, and intense bitchiness.

She was a real b*tch to him.

So it's 1952.

There I was, living in a one-room flat

looking after a 9-year-old,

washing dishes

modelling knitting patterns for a living

and getting

occasional jobs as a film extra.

Little did I know that

in four years I'd be starring

opposite Lana Turner

in a Hollywood movie.

You might well be asking:

how did that happen?

I could thank Brian for teaching

me the value of old-world charm

and Doorn for bringing out my inner poet.

But for the most part, it was

thanks to wife number two.

Singer Dorothy Squires.

Or "Dot" to her friends.

Dorothy Squires, oh,

she was something else.

Oh, I remember

Dorothy Squires very well.

She was a big chapter in Roger's life.

She was a wild lady.

Terrifying, actually.

People, when they come in and

see you, they wanna see glamour.

This is what they want, an escape!

She was a huge star.

She'd been a star since the '40s.

Worldwide hits.

She bought this wonderful house

in Bexley, which had 22 rooms

four acres of land and a swimming pool.

It was like Hollywood.

And she'd have these parties

and everybody would turn up.

And there'd be Shirley Bassey

there, there'd be Diana Dors.

Cliff Richard was there

I was sat next to one guy,

I said who's this?

He said it was Phil Spector.

Now, I mean, you don't expect to be

sitting next to Phil Spector

in Kent, do you?

When Dot had a party, everybody went.

That's where she met Roger, of course.

The telephone went,

I picked up the telephone

and he said, "I'm at the station."

I said, "Who are you?"

"Roger Moore." Well, I said,

"What do you look like?"

So he said, "I'm short, fat and bald"

so I went back and I said,

"Somebody go down the station

and get a short, fat, bald guy", you know.

I said, "How do you do?

Would you have a drink?"

So he said, "I have an ulcer."

So I said, "Oh, I am sorry."

Oh, he said, "Don't be sorry,

it's quite fashionable."

I thought, "Oh, what a bore!"

"It's quite fashionable..."

Oh, I said, "Who writes

his scripts?", you know.

He said, "Well, the last train

must be gone by now, Dorothy."

"So you'll have to

bloody stay then, won't you?"

And he picked her up

carried her up this

Gone With The Wind staircase.

And that was it, that's how it started.

He carried me upstairs.

And I thought, what the hell.

And I watched him go down

the lawn the following morning

I thought, "What the hell have I done?

I've never slept with anybody

in my house like that before."

Dot was

a good 12 years older than me

and she was in another league.

I was now mingling with top

musicians, actors, and agents

and Dot had big plans for me.

She was the one that pushed him.

He took advantage of it.

Dorothy's my auntie

and I remember she said to me once.

"Why wouldn't you do this

if you loved him?"

She took him to America

cos she had lots of connections.

She said to Roger, you know,

"They like handsome guys.

You're struggling here.

You're doing photo sessions

for knitting patterns.

You've got to go to America."

In the summer of 1953,

Doorn and I were divorced.

Dot became wife number two

and we were headed for Hollywood.

I think she moulded him.

He's 23, and he's got

this charismatic woman

who's a huge star.

She told him to get his teeth done.

He's gonna listen to her, isn't he?

I was young and living in the moment.

It wasn't until years later

that I came to appreciate

just how much Dot did for me.

She had that secret ingredient

and somehow, a little rubbed off.

The great things I learned from Dorothy

was to become my own person.

I used to be very, very nervous.

Rather timid.

From the time I met Dorothy

I then started developing a persona.

I became somebody called Roger Moore.

Roger Moore.

And "Roger Moore"

was about to become somebody.

MGM offered me a seven-year contract.

The character I'd created

seemed to be having the desired effect.

I was to play opposite Lana Turner.

I didn't ask to keep the tights.

Look out for your hearts, girls.

This Roger Moore is

going places in pictures.

He's quite a fellow.

Two years ago

I'd been eating beans on toast ever night.

Now I was sampling

some of the finer dishes

and I don't mean the food.

He said, "Lana Turner, you know?"

And then I went, "Yeah, yeah."

And he said, "Lana Turner teaching".

"Roger from London to kiss!" You know?

This kind of elevated sense of

you know, winning the lottery

and really knowing

you're winning the lottery.

"Your number is 546 - you won!

Kiss her!"

Hollywood life was wonderful.

We met Elvis, a big fan of Dot's.

I was rubbing shoulders with the stars

and many of them

became lifelong friends.

Here, captured by my own trusty camera

many years later

is a very memorable visit

from a Hollywood legend.

Gorgeous, gorgeous.

My old pal, Kirk Douglas.

Was that it?

Oh, now you come and see it!

Could I have a retake, please?

I sang my g*dd*mn heart out

- now you come!

- Can we have a retake? Great.

Other dear

friends I made around this time

were David Niven, Gregory Peck

and Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra.

They met in the late '50s, in Los Angeles.

And became close friends.

Hey, Rog!

You're a generous and caring person

and a hell of a classy guy.

Frank, he'd want

all the men to sit around

and drink with him

I remember Dad

trying to keep up with Frank.

"Come on, Roger!

It's not time to go to bed now!"

And he's like, you know,

he was extraordinary.

So Dad and all the men

used to walk around

with their whiskies, and sort of

put them in the plant pots

because they just

could not keep up with Frank.

Salud!

So I was

fortunate to have played

a bit part in The Golden Age of Movies.

But back in the late '50s, I didn't realise

how short-lived my dream would be.

First, my marriage began to fall apart.

Dot already had fame.

What she wanted most

was to be a mother.

She was always a bit worried

about not having children.

And Roger did want to have children.

I wanted a baby

I had my fallopian tubes

blown in England

but it wasn't a success so I had

them done in Beverly Hills.

She told me afterwards

that she'd had three miscarriages.

My heart broke for Dot.

We'd arrived

in America with such high hopes

but within a few years

both our dreams began to fall apart.

Dot couldn't get pregnant

and Diane, the movie

that was supposed to

catapult me to stardom, flopped.

"Quote:" By mutual consent,

MGM and Roger Moore

have terminated their contract."

There was nothing mutual about it.

And the stigma from that kind of failure

left me with only one option.

Television.

I now had a ridiculous plumed

helmet to go with the tights.

And 36 inches of flashing steel.

The dialogue was medieval.

Stop him! He's making for the dungeons!

Thank you, Bruno - now I know the way!

And my audience may

all have been 12-year-olds

but I was the undisputed king

of the playground.

The Alaskans!

Starring Roger Moore!

Here I was in yet another

popular period piece for television.

Dorothy Provine!

But for me,

TV just didn't have the cachet

or the cash, of cinema

However, working in

television did have certain

advantages.

Now, the rumour was

that he liked the ladies.

And the rumour was true, of course!

Dorothy Provine was my co-star.

Hey now, come on! Give her to me!

What can I say?

We had an on-screen chemistry

that continued off it.

Now where's that $100

you borrowed from me?

Now don't worry about that

I have a goldmine here, I think.

Dorothy found out

that he was having the affair

cos he was talking in his sleep.

She woke up in the night

and she said, "You b*stard.

You're having an affair

with that Dorothy Provine!"

"What are you talking about,

Dorothy? I'm not!"

She said, "Yes, you were.

You were calling

her name out in your sleep."

He said, "Well, your name's Dorothy."

She said, "Yeah, but you call me Dot."

Got him HE LAUGHS.

We were driving between

the sound stages on the lot.

He said if we see Dorothy Provine

he said, because I've fallen out with her

cos I've packed up with her and that

she's doing this business now

where every time I see her

she sticks her nose in the air

goes all haughty and walks by and that.

And sure enough as she saw us,

the nose went in the air

and round the corner she walked.

And Roger and I continued on our way

just giggling and laughing.

May 1961.

Dot was away touring Australia,

and I flew to Italy.

The good news: I was in a film at last.

The bad news.

I was back in a toga.

But the Gods had brought me

to Rome for a reason.

A rather gorgeous, Italian reason.

Luisa Mattioli.

Well.

My mother said

they were watching something

on television in Italy

and my mother's mother

turned around to my mother and said.

"That's the sort of man

that you should marry."

And it was Dad in, I think,

something like Ivanhoe.

It was one of those things that

had been dubbed into Italian.

Luisa had accomplished

a lot in her career, you know

from racing car driver, and then she was

one of the first Miss Italys

and one of the first TV presenters in Italy

as an actress and a singer.

She had a name for herself.

She had a beautiful voice

Her mother was an opera singer.

She was somebody

that was a real go-getter.

This producer of the film

that she was going to be in

had said to her.

"There's an American actor

coming, Roger Moore."

Can you go and meet him

at the airport and, you know

"just, make him feel at home,

whatever, bring him into Rome?"

So that's how they met.

He didn't speak a word of Italian.

She didn't speak a word of English.

"Ciao. Hello."

"My name Luisa."

"Roger. Ciao."

Must have been very strange.

It was on a film called

The r*pe of the Sabine Women.

Don't laugh.

These movies were

all the rage in the '60s.

The low cost of labour in Italy

meant you could afford huge

crowd scenes like this one.

With all these Italians, it was down to me

to, uh, keep the British end up.

Just ignore the dodgy dubbing.

He was wearing, you know,

one of those centurion outfits

and she had the Greek goddess

sort of hairstyle.

My father asked my

mother out for dinner one night

and he kept sort of pointing at his finger.

He didn't have the ring on

because he was filming.

He was going like this,

and she thought he meant.

"Will you marry me?"

And she was like, "Are you

crazy? I'm already engaged!"

And she was engaged to quite

a well-known gynaecologist.

But I think they must have had this spark

and they fell in love.

She had charisma.

I could see why the old man

was besotted with her.

She was absolutely beautiful.

And you could

understand why, you know

Roger would've fallen

madly in love with her.

What can I say?

We spoke the international

language of love.

There was, however, the small matter of

my wife.

He told me that

he'd met this lovely actress.

And so we looked

at each other and went:

"Oh, my God, this is going

to cause a lot of trouble."

Roger moved in with Luisa.

So Dorothy went round there,

and threw bricks

through every window in the house, see?

Roger came out

apparently and grabbed her

and said they'd called the police.

And he's got hold of her and he said.

"Dorothy, your hand is bleeding."

She said, "It's my f*cking heart

that's bleeding!"

Always very dramatic, Dorothy, you see?

June 1962.

I admit, in my personal life,

I was no saint.

Professionally, on the other hand.

Mr Moore,

why do you think you were chosen

to play the Saint?

Because Sean Connery wasn't available.

The Saint was what I'd been waiting for.

He would be the "Roger Moore"

I had spent many years

and two marriages perfecting.

Come, darling, I want you to

meet the most fantastic man

I've told you about him

John, this is Simon Templar.

No swords, no sandals, no armour

not even a toga.

Instead it was a cool car, a stiff drink

and some sharp suits.

Monsieur Simon Templar.

He was the foundation

for the rest of my career:

Simon Templar.

Or if you like, "Simon Template."

Simon Templar is a

thief, the modern Robin Hood.

We never show how I live,

where do I get my money from?

So he is a man with a past

which always makes

a leading man more interesting.

I was 11 years of age

and we used to draw The Saint

on our textbooks,

or you'd write, you know

you'd draw The Saint

on the back of your hand.

There was something

very magical about it.

It was a massive breakthrough

for Roger, The Saint.

He created his own look,

his own life, his own image.

The image

of The Saint for me

was all wrapped up in the cool

of black and white film.

But by the end of the '60s,

we looked even better in colour.

Oh look, there's Steven Berkoff

playing a moustachioed henchman

all in a lovely duck-egg blue.

What made him look famous is that

he had the most ridiculous

haircut I've ever seen.

His hair went all the way up, like that.

With a quiff

I thought, that's a bit poncy, even then.

I wanted to have hair

like Roger Moore.

I used to try and get

my hair to look like Roger's.

Good looks, humour

and kindness.

We were starting with

a scene that was quite wordy.

The director calls "right, action".

Mr Williams, I heard

about Owen Thomas.

And I do a part of the scene.

I saw the light of

the search party from the house.

Suddenly he starts screaming.

"Cut! Cut! No! We'll have to do it again!"

I'm sort of like this, you know.

And I'm standing waiting for the cue

and I feel a hand on my hand, holding it.

And I look up and there's Roger

looking at me, and he said.

"Don't let him worry you.

He does this all the time."

And then he walked just very nicely

very quietly down to the director.

Had a few words.

I never had any trouble again

throughout the entire episode.

Thanks for rescuing me

in there, Mr... er?

Templar, Simon Templar.

It was a pleasure.

That put him on the map,

that put him in all our hearts.

Once Roger found Roger in life,

Roger became Roger

and embellished Roger, which is

a great talent unto itself.

You know, I think to some

degree, actor or not

we all invent ourselves.

You know, we decide somewhere,

probably very young

who we'd like to be,

who we imagine ourselves as.

You know, becoming

the hero of our own story.

The Saint

was sold to over 60 countries

around the world

reaped more than? 350 million in profit.

Roger Moore's there

to make the presentation.

and made me a household name

from Bogota to Bognor Regis.

I used to drive my grandmother crazy

because she would take me to the park

and there would be like

the swings and the slides

and everything like that, and she said

that I was the most

embarrassing grandchild

because I'd get on the top of

the slide and go.

"My daddy's famous!

My daddy's The Saint!"

I'd say that Roger

Moore never had it so good.

What is the attraction behind playing in

these long-running series?

Money.

The Saint had

made me both rich and famous

I had two wonderful children,

a beautiful home

and a woman who, shall we say,

put the lead in my pencil.

But for nine years.

Dot's refusal to sign

on the, uh, dotted line

and give me a divorce

cast a pretty dark shadow

over my success.

I always felt

that she put him where he was.

He wasn't anything before her,

and he was after her.

She never got over him. Ever.

Never got over him.

Look, this is when he loved me, actually.

It became

an obsession, I suppose.

Sadly, Dot's efforts to hold on to me

became increasingly desperate.

And that, this is the jacket.

It was really bad

She did everything she could.

She was determined, you're

not going to get away from me.

No way.

I remember

one time I was staying

with my grandparents,

and my mother got a phone call.

She thinks it was Dorothy or somebody

with Dorothy,

saying that I'd been kidnapped.

She got into the litigation

Roger Moore and Luisa

were at some gala on TV

and Kenneth More was the MC.

Now, Roger and Luisa Moore.

And he introduced

them as "Mr and Mrs Moore".

"You said that was Mrs Moore,

no, I'm Mrs Moore!

That's Luisa Mattioli, it's not Mrs Moore."

So she sued him She sued everybody!

Twenty court cases, that's

how she lost a lot of money.

The 11th of April 1969.

Finally, after nine long years.

Dot agreed to a divorce.

Luisa and I were married at Caxton Hall.

It was meant to be a small ceremony

but 600 people came to watch.

She hardly spoke English

but she was so beautiful and funny.

We did lots of family

pictures and group pictures.

One of her favourite remarks

when we're all sitting there is.

"Oh, try to look pretty!"

Luisa was enchanting.

She would ring me

sometimes and she'd go, "Allo

I wanna speak-a Nanette-a".

And I'd say, "Oh, hello, Luisa."

And she'd say, "'Ow you know it's-a me?"

And I'd say "Because nobody else

speaks English like you, Luisa!"

"'Ow you know it's-a me?!"

It was a restaurant

called the White Elephant

where everybody congregated.

And then this beautiful girl

comes in with the hot pants.

Little velvet hot pants.

You know, even as a woman,

it was really extraordinary.

And Luisa goes to Roger

and slaps him across the face.

And he said, "What's that for?"

And she said, "Just-a in-a case!"

True story!

We formed a club.

It was Roger's idea

Michael Caine and his wife Shakira

Leslie Bricusse, the brilliant

songwriter and his wife Evie

Brian and me, and Roger and Luisa.

We would just get together

and we called ourselves

the See You Next Tuesday Club

Roger loved it.

And we loved it!

Now that there are so many years

you are Simon Templar,

do you still like this man?

He's kept me in good clothes

good food, good company.

Of course I like him!

Simon Templar

had given me confidence

and class.

My South London upbringing

was by now a distant memory.

Oh, Your Starkness, you're so bright.

Your carriage awaits.

So playing an English lord

in The Persuaders.

It's got a hat

wasn't too big a stretch.

Let me carry your train for you, sir

Daniel, you really do bring

a fresh meaning

to the word peasant.

Your Dukeship, anything!

I shared top billing with

Hollywood legend Tony Curtis

who played Danny Wilde,

a Brooklyn kid made good.

Roger was perfect.

See, Roger had this attitude of

an English lord, Lord Sinclair.

You know?

He already was the Lord Sinclair

because he'd been in movies,

handsome Englishman.

"Thank you very much."

The show was built

around beautiful women

fast cars, and glamorous locations.

I got a call from Roger.

"Joanie, I want you to come

to the South of France

to do The Persuaders

with me and Tony Curtis."

I said, "Oh, wow That sounds great."

He said, "Well, we'll

put you up in a hotel."

I thought, "Well, this is nice."

It's a hard

life being an actor, isn't it?

Why don't you switch that thing off?

I think I'll switch that thing off.

I was a photographer

I was very bohemian.

Somewhat avant-garde.

You may kiss me.

Kissing Roger was fine.

Kissing Tony was like kissing an ashtray.

Mmm!

Is this an excuse me

or can we all join in?

Sorry.

Mmm, I like it! I like it!

It was The Persuaders

that added the final piece of

the jigsaw to my repertoire

something that would

become my trademark.

You must forgive him.

His early life was influenced

rather heavily

by Rudolph Valentino.

A soupcon of tongue-in-cheek humour.

There's no need to kneel,

I'm a very democratic lord.

With Lord Brett Sinclair

I had become an upper-class

gentleman, literally

I'd gone from a one-room flat

in South London

to a mansion in Buckinghamshire.

Maybe growing up and

having to provide for a family

was the making of Roger Moore.

All these TV roles, Ivanhoe,

The Saint, The Persuaders

had me playing the hero,

saving damsels in distress.

From them, I had put together the voice

the charm, a modicum of comic timing

and the ability

to look half decent in a suit.

And... out of one.

All I needed to make my life complete

was to get back on the big screen.

And then, one day

the call I'd been waiting for.

PICKS UP PHONE ...finally came.

The three last digits were 007.

Double-O seven.

And he answered the phone with

"007?" Cos that's what you do.

And the voice said,

"That you are, Roger."

He must have played it down,

"Oh great, that's wonderful."

"Luisa!" HE CHUCKLES.

We had a drink, he said,

"I've got some great news

I've got some great news."

Chin, chin!

Everybody was thrilled

and we toasted the new 007.

I said, "Can I be a Bond girl?"

Roger Moore is an amazing man

because he seems to be

a very humble, human guy

who lets it all sort of, hang out.

You're talking about all of us!

LAUGHTER - No, I'm not.

He now, as you all know,

is the new James Bond

and is going to be, if not already

an enormous major motion picture star.

Following my speedboat crash,

I was carted off to the clinic

where the doctor gave me the good news

that my leg wasn't broken

and my wife Luisa gave me the

most un-James-Bond-like news

that I'd made a mess of my underwear.

The speed boat incident

did nothing to calm the nerves.

Not mine, and certainly

not that of my bosses.

Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli.

I do remember when they

brought me out to New Orleans

I don't know that he was nervous

but they were nervous about him.

The studio bosses

wanted a big American name.

Paul Newman or Steve McQueen.

But Cubby and Harr fought

for yours truly

and I was forever grateful.

Everyone was nervous about

anyone replacing "the" Bond

who was Sean.

Connery just took

the world by storm.

You know, Bond.

A martini, shaken not stirred.

And Roger had to pick up that mantle.

Very demanding, because

Connery had made

such an indelible impression

Sean had established the role

and was a diamond in the rough.

And Roger was a well-honed diamond.

He had this charm about him.

He had a casualness that seemed

to go with the times.

Such a delicate touch.

Sheer magnetism, darling.

When I met him, the first thing

he was trying to do

was make sure he could sh**t this

silver magnum thing without

going like that every time.

Every time, he went like that.

He definitely had a problem and it was

not looking Bond-like

to go "brr!" every time.

And then came the line

that would determine whether

I would succeed or fail.

I had practised it over and over

but no matter how many times I said it

in my head,

I always heard the same thing.

I was terrified I would open my mouth

and out would come.

My name is Bond. James Bond.

LAUGHTER - And I mustn't do that.

The first proper scene

I remember doing with him

you know, the first time

he says, "I'm Bond, James Bond"

I was terrified.

It was scary SHE LAUGHS.

Oh.

Alright.

What's my name?

The name's Bond

James Bond.

My name's Bond

James Bond.

Yes, it's a big, big name to say.

"The weather turned

suddenly colder today."

But the chill in the air warmed

under the sunny smile of

Gloria Hendry

whose entry into

the French Quarter Inn courtyard

"was straight out of a Bond movie."

Would you believe that?

"The overall effect is: Wow!"

That's a compliment!

So here we are on the set.

Guy said to me, "Stay out of the sun!"

Because my God, it was burning up!

And I'm on top of him.

So the night before.

I had a lot of garlic.

Oh, James!

He said, "You're lucky my wife is Italian!"

This was one of the first major films

that had an interracial relationship.

It was quite a remarkable thing

for the time.

I couldn't believe my luck.

Glorious Gloria,

and sensational Seymour.

He was just incredibly helpful

to me as a young actress.

I remember when we did

the love scene and

the famous "deflowering" love scene.

I just need a little bit

of information, that's all.

The eyebrow

was the hugest issue.

Every time his eyebrow

went up, they went, "Cut!

Roger! The eyebrow!"

I've lost it.

They thought that he could choose

to do it or not do it, but he couldn't.

That's just how he'd be,

that was his thing.

Ah yes, my eyebrow.

Some say I built a career on it.

The very singular ability

to manipulate his left eyebrow.

The eyebrow would go "bzz!"

That was... how can he do

just the one eyebrow?

That furry little fella seduced the world.

And so did I.

We wrapped filming on Live and Let Die

and all I could do was wait and hope.

Wait to see what the critics

would make of my Bond.

And hope?

Well, hope the buggers liked it!

What about the Bond reviews now?

Are you ready for that?

I'll tell you, I think

the good critics in America

are the ones who liked it.

It's just that you have

to go through the envy barrier.

They will try to destroy you

because they also feel

that they made you.

Well, you see, they don't

decide who becomes a star

the people decide who becomes a star.

Oh, that's very good.

It's a good thing

it's the people who decide

because the critics were not impressed.

It's Live and Let Die.

Roger Moore is James Bond, 007.

Our

box office, on the other hand

was in rude health.

It's Live and Let Die.

We were off to the races!

Ladies and gentlemen, Roger Moore!

The success of Live and Let Die meant

I was very much in demand

on the chat show circuit

Roger Moore.

This was where

the "Roger Moore" character

I built so carefully could really shine.

You seem perfect.

Are you proposing or something?

No, nothing like that.

I... I... you just seem perfect.

He had it all, I would say.

He seemed to really, really enjoy it.

To make movies and be famous.

He said, "I was one lucky b*stard."

This, of course, consequently

causes a great number of women

to be attracted to you

all over the place

which as everyone knows can become.

All over which place?

The entire globe.

Which means that

this can become tiresome

and present problems to you

as these ladies lay in waiting for you

outside your hotel room door

and other places too numerous

to mention.

Is this a monologue?

LAUGHTER - Oh, uh.

The combination of

his looks and his personality

and his pleasantness and his humour

and the fact that he liked me.

I'm trying to get to the question

- and I can't...

- He's not reading it either!

How do you handle all these women?

My wife looks after it for me

She's, uh, she's Italian.

- Your wife's Italian?

- Yeah.

Ah. Then you have no problem at all

I have no problem whatsoever Ooh!

Was hardly worth

that long question, was it?

LAUGHTER - He was very amusing.

Pleasing as a personality.

He was just the perfect talk show guest.

He was a laugh

I mean, there's a thing I remember

Michael Caine said about him.

If he hadn't been so good-looking

they'd have let him be a comedian.

Is there anyone in England

that's got that kind of zany

nutty, marvellous kind of humour?

No, no Not since I left.

Naughty sense of humour.

Really naughty.

He'd start telling a story

and everybody would go.

"Oh, Roger, stop it, for God's sake."

I always wanted to be a comic.

The reason

I wanted to be a comic was that

when I did drama, everybody laughed

so I thought, "Well, I'm a comedian."

When I k*ll, I k*ll for Queen and country.

When I k*ll, I k*ll for Queen and country.

When I k*ll, I k*ll for Queen and country.

Though I admit,

k*lling you would be a pleasure.

Alright, enough larking about.

Back to the day job.

The Man with the Golden g*n

began filming in Thailand.

There was a lot riding on it.

Despite the box office success

of Live and Let Die

plenty of fans were still pining for Sean.

They said I was too light.

I've always been a lover, not a fighter.

Director Guy Hamilton, however

wanted me ruthless.

Ow, you're hurting my arm!

I'll break it unless you tell me

where those b*ll*ts go.

It didn't sit easily with me

I wanted my Bond to be

a bit of a romantic.

Naturally, I suggested

bedding Maud Adams

to extract the information

but Guy was insistent I toughen up.

You see what you can do when you try?

Where did you get the reputation

for being such a male chauvinist pig?

LAUGHTER - Uh.

Somebody had that impression of you.

- Through playing Bond.

- I suppose that would be it.

I said where?

Playing Bond, yes, you get

accused of male chauvinism.

And I could see why.

This trailer is practically

an advert for male chauvinism.

James Bond, on the job.

The girls are willing.

In December 1974.

The Man with the Golden g*n

hit the cinemas.

And the reviews weren't exactly glowing.

The New York Times called me

a "vast garden ornament".

The box office wasn't quite

what we expected either.

Terrifyingly, for my bank balance

I may have to go back to working in TV.

The Man with the Golden g*n

isn't a financial success

so suddenly, it all started to look messy.

Can we talk about the knocks?

People all said, "Oh, well,

Roger Moore is not

my idea of 007

and it's all a great failure."

I mean, do you mind

that kind of hammering?

It is always nice to get a good notice.

- You know, its lovely.

- You like a good notice?

Well, of course you do,

but you don't take any notice

if they're bad.

And so by the same token

I shouldn't take any notice

of the good ones.

Not that there are many, but still!

March 1976.

Pinewood Studios.

The Spy Who Loved Me

goes into production.

After my last Bond,

and the harsh reviews.

I found my own way

to deal with questions

about my acting ability.

Have you ever forgiven the critic

who called you a lump

of English roast beef?

Yup - Can you find it in your heart?

Oh sure, I can

I know where I'd like

to stick the mustard too.

You're very self-deprecating

about your acting.

- Is that defensive?

- Yes, it's defensive

I always try to say it

before anybody else does.

But if you didn't say it,

perhaps nobody else would?

I'd never thought of that

Maybe I started the wrong way!

He was so self-deprecating

that people joined in.

But actually, you know,

he was a very fine actor.

Why do you always put yourself down?

Well, I've stopped doing that - You have?

No I now say I'm marvellous.

You do?

That's alright. What caused

the change of heart?

The critics started believing me.

Yeah, he was modest.

He was maybe even, uh, shy.

You know, he was so handsome

that you forgot what a good actor he was.

He was never enormously confident.

But he could give the impression

of being confident.

The audience doesn't

have to know what you're doing.

They just have to know

that you know what you're doing.

He was an actor

and a movie star.

And I think often movie stars

people don't give them

the credit for the acting chops

because they're so magnetic on screen

that they think,

well, that's just who they are.

Oh, did you want me to go up?

I thought I had to go down?

Alright, one more straight away, let's go!

I'd wrestled

with the question of

how to become James Bond,

with limited success.

In the end, the answer was so simple.

Stop trying to turn

Roger Moore into James Bond.

Turn James Bond

into Roger Moore.

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Goodnight.

He knew how to play Roger Moore

and that's a gift That's a real, real gift.

If there's anything you would like?

Anything at all?

Well, I had lunch but.

I seem to have missed dessert.

He said, "I had my stride."

I always remember that

"I had my stride with that."

It's just great entertainment.

It was shocking just

how much fun Jaws and I had

in this, ahem, electrifying scene.

The Spy Who Loved Me

couldn't be more different

to Live and Let Die

and Man with the Golden g*n.

We're now in quite

a different world in a way

a world where you can have

an underwater base, and a world

where you can have a sports car

that turns into a submarine.

As you can see, it is noisy and, uh

it is cold.

Ready, action!

The whole crew couldn't wait

to get to work in the morning.

He was so entertaining,

we almost used to have to allow

half an hour a day for the jokes

and the fun that used to go on.

People have to be

willing to have a joke.

And then it is fun, as you said

before, an experience.

It's raining on this set.

You see, this is what I mean

by being able to take a joke.

I will go down and k*ll them in a second.

Thank you very much, fellas!

And I love him

in his naval outfit.

He looks incredible.

Your time's running out, Stromberg.

The worst thing that happened

to me on The Spy Who Loved Me

was the sequence,

if you remember, where I.

My final confrontation

with Curd Jurgens, Stromberg.

Well, unfortunately, the chair

blew up before I got out of it.

And that did quite a lot

of damage to my rear end.

And he leapt in the air

with his backside on fire

and ran round the set.

Anyway, Roger had to have.

Vaseline dressings for two weeks.

And afterwards he said

"I have got two holes

where most people have one!"

It's the biggest.

Despite the damage

to my perfect posterior

the marketing team remained

confident of my sex appeal.

We get that extra push

especially where

the women are concerned

because they're less interested in

the action aspects of the film.

When you talk to them,

they're more interested in Roger

and sublimating themselves into the role

of whatever woman he's making love to.

Can I have that trim, John?

Editor and 2nd unit director John Glen

was hard at work in the edit suite

cutting the opening sequence.

It promised to be something...

rather special.

Tell you what would help it -

if you were just a touch longer.

Yep. OK.

I directed the pre-title sequence

I found myself in Mount Asgard

on the Canadian Arctic.

Three weeks it took us

to get this shot, this one shot.

It was Roger's favourite action scene.

He just loved it.

And he's falling and falling

and falling, and this

and it's silence.

I remember watching that

you know, it's one of the most

famous bits in cinema, isn't it?

Parachute opens - doof!

When that Union Jack came up...

oh, boy.

Everyone goes bananas.

The movie had only been going

for like five or ten minutes.

Standing ovation.

The reaction was incredible.

A day I never thought I'd see

but the reviews came in,

and would you believe it

they were positive.

It is a fantastically entertaining movie.

You've got a performance in Roger's

that he knows he's there

to give you a great time.

If The Spy Who Loved Me hadn't worked

it would have been very, very difficult

I think, for the franchise.

There was Roger

coming down the mountain.

Of course he saved the franchise.

But, James, I need you!

So does England.

In reality,

I had little in common with 007.

Except perhaps a taste for the high life

exotic locations, fancy cars

and a nice pair of, ahem, gadgets.

These time-shifting devices.

The portable VCR machine

and home movie camera.

Gadgets

He loved his gadgets.

Especially the home video camera

the huge five-kilo box

you'd have to carry around

with the battery pack.

Recording life, such a novelty.

You know, certainly from his childhood

where none of that existed.

OK, more tapes.

Alright, what's your name?

Christian Moore

Christian Moore, what a horror you are.

And there is Geoffrey.

This must be about 40 tapes.

He liked to record, you know,

what was going on

and "here we are,

look how beautiful it is"

and Roger narrating.

Right now, we're

going to have impersonations.

Oh, hi!

Who is it? Oh, Roger!

Ah! Deborah!

Oh, Roger, come on, who wants

to do all these little things?

"Your father is-a pushing you too far

- "you will come to realise..."

- Pushing you to fart?

LAUGHTER - Pushing you too far!

You could see more of

the funny, humorous side of him

I trust I'm in focus, Luisa

because I get very upset

if I'm not in focus.

Ah, mucking about Great memories.

There's a lot of South of France

home footage.

- Geoffrey dug all this up, right?

- Yes.

No, I haven't seen it.

The car does not wanna work.

Can you come and look at it, please?

Please, look at the car!

Stefanie Powers.

Do you wanna get a close-up on that?

I'm moving in for a close-up.

You wanna get a close-up on that?

Oh, Stefanie!

Oh, and spin on it.

Just spin on that one!

They had so much fun

I mean fun, silly fun.

Laughter.

And it was a magical time of the year.

It's like a dream.

Hi, darling!

OK, Valentino, Portofino.

Olivia Newton John,

yeah, that's probably here.

We're really shy!

It kind of hit me

that we were surrounded by fame.

But for us, they were just their friends.

It wasn't, "Oh, he's famous."

You know what I mean?

Ah,

there's my favourite Bond Girl.

Maud Adams.

And how's this for a shot

straight out of the Bond playbook?

Eat your heart out, Cubby Broccoli!

Go, Maud!

All his friends

would come round.

Growing up, seeing his friends on TV

I thought that's what people did.

They were in this little box,

and they'd come round.

Chopper is arriving in five minutes.

The chopper's

arriving in five minutes.

Oh, is this Roger

with his camera?

The noise!

Oh, God.

I mean, to land on

a tennis court is really brave.

Who the hell is it?

Oh!

Oh, oh, oh.

This is Elton.

This is Elton arriving.

Extraordinary.

There's Joan.

That's lovely.

Is this with sound?

With sound?

Of course it's got sound

Roger never changed

from the time I met him.

He was always charming, funny

full of joie de vivre, telling jokes.

Now, it's quite

amazing, the flora that you find

- on the hills of St Paul.

- I haven't got my costume.

Gorilla costume HE LAUGHS.

It's just lovely

to remember that day, you know.

Extraordinary.

What would Al Pacino say?

Walking back in time.

Enough of that.

I haven't seen this, this

is like, super-duper emotional.

Luisa, I'm waiting for you

to say, "You look beautiful."

I can't work until I'm told I look lovely.

And here we are,

on the boat of Valentino.

Life turned out pretty well

I had nice houses, dotted around

some lovely parts of the world

I had fancy cars and luxury yachts

and good friends

who happened to be famous.

But, um... well, no, there is no but

I just had a really good life.

ROGER Tracking shots.

Look at them Crumpets, the pair of them.

- How much?

- How much?

It was a very surreal childhood

I knew he was somebody important.

A lot of people that I would

recognise from film, coming in.

And at the age I was,

I didn't like attention.

I became very shy.

Well, it's a very nice

static picture, you know.

Oh, this is not, this is a moving picture!

You know, I see pictures of myself

always hiding

behind my mother or my father.

When I first

realised how famous he was

cos he came to pick me up at school

all these kids were coming out

you know, around the car and stuff

and that's when I realised,

you know, they knew who he was.

And I didn't want anyone to know

cos I thought I was, you know,

the son of James Bond

and I looked like a doughnut.

I thought it would be better to blend in.

For me, fame was a choice.

But there came a time when I felt

my children deserved

a more normal upbringing.

So, reluctantly, we left England.

And, er, there were

some tax benefits as well.

Ahem.

To the left here, Peter Sellers' house.

That one up there. Do you

see it? It's a cool house.

He was one of the first guys here.

Him, Niven, and obviously Rog.

And then Burton

I mean, that was the Rat Pack here.

And Julie Andrews' house

is where the train is, it's

basically above those trees

I mean, it's all very nonchalant

when you talk about these people

but you know, these are family friends

and they're all in a make-believe world.

Y'know, they're getting

paid to make believe, so

they didn't take

themselves very seriously.

What is the

great attraction, do you think

for celebrities? Do they come

here to get away from it all?

Well, we come up here

because there's no such thing

as microphones and television cameras!

A lot of stars like Switzerland,

and like to live in Switzerland

cos the locals, they don't bother them.

He loved it on the mountain,

he was happy.

Despite my fabulous

skiing exploits on screen

I couldn't actually ski.

In my 50s, I decided to learn.

Thanks to my wonderful instructors

I found swooping down

the piste to be fairly easy.

It was, uh, stopping I had a problem with.

We meant to stop here.

And what happened?

Roger panicked.

What happened, he went, went, went

the worst thing was that

the metal edges of the skis

on the concrete were sparking!

Sparking like you wouldn't

imagine, like in a film.

He flew through the terrace,

kicked a table, kicked a table

kicked another, and we ended up here

like an ostrich,

with a head plant, on the table.

And then Roger stands up.

"Madam!

A pleasure to make your acquaintance."

Well, that was wonderful, Vijay.

For six more years

and a further four films

I played the part, on and off screen

Roger Moore

007 for the fifth time and fit as a fiddle.

How do you do it, dare I ask?

I play the fiddle!

The trailer for my final Bond film

introduced Christopher Walken

as my enemy.

This man has a secret ambition!

I propose to end the domination

of Silicon Valley.

In real life,

we became great chums

100 million dollars

I was a big Bond fan.

So the idea of being

a villain was very attractive

Max Zorin is a genetically

altered human being.

He drives a blimp, you know?

You know, who do you know who

and he drives it himself,

you know, with the switches.

Pick you up in my blimp!

Action, Chris!

Physically, they're hard work.

You're in every scene

and the schedule is

usually about six months.

And that means every day

from the crack of dawn.

So they're long hours.

It was a long sh**t.

We were about to break for Christmas.

And he said to me on set one day.

"What are you doing for the holidays?"

And I said "Well, I guess I'm just gonna

sit in my apartment."

And he said, "Well, no, you come

to my house in Switzerland."

So I did.

He was very much

the Roger that you saw on film.

You know,

he was funny, he was charming

he was handsome, he dressed well

Chris, come this side.

Yeah, very much the same guy.

He had a nice life.

Alas, old age

catches up with all of us in the end.

I think it was the moment

one of my leading ladies told me

I reminded her of her father

that I decided it was time

to hang up the Walther PPK.

He was getting too old.

Simple.

You know, I mean, he looked pretty good

but he was sort of knocking 60

and I think he was right

to quit when he did.

I wanted to find a way

to put my fame to good use.

Audrey Hepburn,

who was a UNICEF ambassador

and a neighbour of mine in Switzerland

suggested I too become an ambassador.

Upside: A chance to do something good.

Downside: Not a martini in sight.

I was exceedingly grateful to Audrey

for having steered me

in the right direction.

In 1991, my life, in a strange way

began to mirror that of

my most famous character.

I was sent to far-flung

locations and w*r zones

but this time,

I had a licence to help people.

I'm so violently opposed

to the use of weapons and mines

that I didn't like that image of me

going around the world,

holding the Walther PPK.

And it's.

It appears rather heroic, and it's not.

I had changed and

how I lived my life had changed.

By 1993, the children had flown the nest.

Luisa and I had

been together for 30 years

but that relationship was also changing.

She was quite tough, Luisa.

And she used to get

very angry with him, a lot.

A lot.

She did turn a

little bit unkindly towards him.

And she'd humiliate him at the table

I don't know why she did that.

It's tough because

a lot of women would

throw themselves over him so.

It's a tough, tough role.

You know, she really

had to put up with a lot.

When they were living in Gstaad,

I went to stay with them.

I said, "Where's the bedroom?"

And Luisa said, "This is my room"

and it was a big, lovely bedroom.

And Roger said, "Come and see mine."

And so, under the stairs

there was this little kind of cubby hole.

And he said, "This is where I sleep."

And I didn't want to ask

the obvious question:

how's the marriage going?

Uh.

You know, I think it was

when he got slightly older.

Yeah, they sort of drifted apart

and that made my mother very

very upset, very angry.

She could tell that something

wasn't right, and I think

by that point he'd, you know,

already met Kristina.

Kristina

was a friend of Luisa's.

She was calm and empathetic

and as the distance

between Luisa and me grew.

Kristina and I became closer.

She was such

a different person to my wife.

They just had spent 30 years together

and I think it was time for him

to move on with his life and be happy.

My mother knew about it when she

opened the newspapers

and there it was:

"The new woman in Roger Moore's life."

Phone call from my old man saying.

"Kid, listen, it's just

made news that I'm leaving."

OK

"You'd better go see your mother."

The paparazzi would only come

round when there was a scandal.

They were outside the flat.

I go to open the door,

I open the door and it's like.

It's out there before you know it.

Ugh... I found out from co-workers.

It was in the papers

and someone threw it down.

Some people

may have disapproved of Kristina

or Kiki as I called her

but she was a big support to me

and came on many of my UNICEF trips.

Sir Roger Moore,

for services to charity.

Arise, Sir Rog!

Being knighted meant a lot to me

all the more so because

it wasn't for services

to entertainment,

but for my charitable work.

Luckily, I didn't have to wear tights.

There we are.

In my later years, I found peace.

I was very happy with Kiki.

Of course, like many in old age,

I had some health issues.

Spending the last

few weeks in hospital with him

I had asked him if he was

frightened and he said no.

That he enjoyed every minute of his life

I don't think he found regret in anything.

The doctor said,

"I'm really sorry but

I don't think he's got long to live."

We went into the room

and he said, "Right!

I don't want bad news

I just want the good news."

So we just put on a brave face

and pretended everything was

going to be alright, you know?

And

and it wasn't.

I just sat and talked to him for a while.

Held his hand and stuff.

It slowly sunk in.

And I struggled because

we always had a phone call

we always spoke, every day at 11 o'clock.

It took a while for me

not to press the button.

"It's 11 o'clock,

sh*t, I've gotta call Roger."

He's no longer here.

How will

Roger Moore be remembered?

Well, I made

over 60 movies in my career

but most people only

ever wanted to talk about seven.

When someone else became Bond,

I enjoyed a new kind of fame

as "Roger Moore, national treasure".

It is a huge honour to be

entrusted by his family

to hold this very special sale today

?32,000

?35,000

?38,000

?40,000

Why anybody would

want this stuff is beyond me.

But oh, well I'm glad they do.

Going once at? 50,000.

At least some of this money

will go to charity.

You're a brilliant bidder, thank you.

There at? 55,000.

Sixty it is, ?60,000.

Sold!? 60,000, there we are!

It's my dad, it's our father

I don't think you really fathom

who he was until after death.

And we're all looking for Roger tonight.

He's here in spirit.

Allow me to raise a glass

and an eyebrow one last time.

A toast!

To those who shared the journey with me.

He never forgot me

I never forgot him

to those who made me what I was.

Before she died, the phone goes,

and it was Roger on the phone.

He said, "Take Dorothy's hand.

Squeeze it, and say

Roger's thinking of her."

She smiled, and she died

and to my dear friends

with whom I laughed and loved.

Oh, there. Right down

the cakehole, there it goes.

I miss him.

I suppose that's what this is about.

A chance to tell him,

you know, I never saw him again.

Everyone will miss Roger,

but the memories

of what he brought us far outweighs that

Roger was timeless.

All that is left is to send my love

to Doorn.

Dot.

Luisa

and Kiki.

Of course he was married four times.

He was Roger Moore!

You know?

He had to let other people have

a turn to be married to him!

But you know, who wouldn't?

Who wouldn't?

I'd have liked to have slept

with Roger Moore!

My mum would've liked to have

slept with Roger Moore!

We'd all like to have slept

with Roger Moore!

Yeah. Roger Moore.

What a guy.

A man becomes what he dreams.

He dreamt well.

Did I save the world?

Not really.

But I put a smile on people's faces

did my bit, then buggered off.

Always leave them wanting more.

Roger Moore