Roger Moore, Who Played James Bond 007 Times, Dies quoting : "The New York Times"

(AP)For Mr. Moore, Bond was Simon Templar on a grander scale and more satiric. Roger Moore, center, with Maud Adams, left, and Britt Ekland, from the James Bond 1974 film "The Man with the Golden Gun." For his charitable work, Mr. Moore was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. Richard Kiel, right, as Jaws and Roger Moore, as James Bond, fighting in the 1977 film "The Spy Who Loved Me." In interviews, Mr. Moore described an often-stormy personal life and alluded to his roving eye and propensity to shy away from conflict.


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Mr. Moore married four times and was divorced three. Mr. Moore had definite opinions about playing heroic adventurers long before he became Bond. Two years later, Mr. Moore and Tony Curtis starred in ABC's one-season series "The Persuaders" as playboy partners solving glamorous European crimes. PhotoAfter surrendering the Bond role to Timothy Dalton, Mr. Moore appeared in a half-dozen largely unexceptional movies, made a few television appearances and did voice work in animated films. From 1962 to 1969 Mr. Moore was Simon Templar, the title character of "The Saint," a wildly popular British series about an adventurous, smooth-talking thief.


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