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Just heard about Roger Moore's passing. He was a great actor & had a good life. I remember him on the knitting patterns Mum had & regularly watched The Saint as well as the James Bond films he made. A sad time for his family but he leaves a great acting legacy.
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Not sure that he was a 'good' actor, because I always felt he was 'Roger Moore pretending to be...' when acting, same as I felt about [Sir] Lawrence Olivier. There are some actors where you forget the actor and only see the part (eg Jonny Depp in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series or the actor who plays Watson in the Benedict Cumberbatch 'Sherlock' series - can't remember his name Image).

However, he was a very enjoyable actor, and you were dragged along with his enthusiasm, making the best of what were in many cases (eg 'The Saint') very poor scripts & wafer thin plot lines.

It is sad he's gone.

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richardandtracy wrote:or the actor who plays Watson in the Benedict Cumberbatch 'Sherlock' series - can't remember his name Image).
Martin Freeman. Also known as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Sorry to hear about Roger Moore's death.

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That's him. He's such a good actor, you see the part he's playing not the actor. He's also been 'Arthur Dent' in 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.

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richardandtracy wrote:That's him. He's such a good actor, you see the part he's playing not the actor. He's also been 'Arthur Dent' in 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
Yes. and not an easy role to play either.

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I used to watch him in Ivanhoe (re-runs, I hasten to say - I don't go back far enough to have seen the original run :-) )

This story about him appeared on my FB feed, and I think it shows him to be a very kind, humorous and thoughtful human being:

"As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"

As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.

I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.

Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.

And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."

I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."
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That is a wonderful story, Mabel and speaks volumes about the kind of man Roger Moore was.

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Thank you Mabel, what a wonderful story. In the tributes paid to him I think it was Ewan McGregor said how tirelessly Roger Moore worked for UNICEF.
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