Goodbye to an icon

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Roger Moore passed away on Tuesday and radio stations throughout the world played music from Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and A View to a Kill – to mention just some of the Bond movies Moore starred in. He was quoted several times considering himself to be only the fourth best actor to have played Ian Fleming’s secret service agent James Bond on the screen, after Daniel Craig, Sean Connery and George Lazenby. But Moore was our personal favourite, with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour that only he could have given to the world’s most famous film spy.

But Moore was quite a lot more than Bond, too. He starred in numerous film roles, often as a playboy and/or detective and sometimes played parodies to his Bond charachter, too. Here fiddling with the ejector seat button of his car in The Cannonball Run, which used a mildly ‘amended’ version of the famous Bond theme. But he was also Ivanhoe, The Saint, Simon Templar (seen above) and our personal favourite Brett Sinclair, the debonair Persuader of the series of the same name, set at glamorous places in Europe and the US (oh - those brilliant opening titles!). Many of his roles included car chase scenes in exotic cars at similarly exotic locations. These fitted the man so well that Moore moved from the UK to Monaco and Switzerland later in his life. He served as a goodwill ambassador for Unicef too, for which he got knighted in 2003. 

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