ACTOR ACTRESS ANNETTE ANNETTE_ANDRE ANNOUNCER AUCTIONEER BARBARA_BROCCOLI BARRY_NORMAN BERKOFF_BADDY BOND BOTH BRUNO BURT_REYNOLDS CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN_MOORE CHRISTOPHER_WALKEN CHRIS_WALKEN DAVID_ATTENBOROUGH DAVID_WALLIAMS DEBORAH DEBORAH_MOORE DICK_CAVETT DIRECTOR DOROTHY_PROVINE DOROTHY_SQUIRES EMILY_SQUIRES ERNIE_DUNSTALL EVIE_BRICUSSE FRANK_SINATRA GEOFFREY GEOFFREY_MOORE GLORIA GLORIA_HENDRY HOME_VIDEO INTERVIEWER JANE_SEYMOUR JOAN JOAN_COLLINS JOHNNY_TUDOR JOHN_GLEN JORG_ROMANG KENNETH_MORE KIRK_DOUGLAS LANA_TURNER LEWIS_GILBERT LIZ_TAYLOR LUISA MAN MAN_FROM_MARKETING_TEAM MAUD_ADAMS MERV_GRIFFEN MERV_GRIFFIN MGM_offered_me_a_seven_year MICHAEL MICHAEL_CAINE MICHAEL_CALLAN MICHAEL_G_WILSON NANETTE_NEWMAN NARRATOR OLDER_GUY OLIVIA_NEWTON OLIVIA_NEWTON_JOHN PARKINSON PIERCE_BROSNAN PRESENTER PRODUCER RADA_concentrated_a_lot_on ROGER ROGER_MOORE SAMMY_DAVIS SAMMY_DAVIS_JNR SHAUN_VAN_STEYN SOLITAIRE STEFANIE_POWERS STEVEN_BERKOFF TONY_CURTIS UPSYNC VAN_JOHNSON VO VOICEOVER WAITER WOMAN ZORIN

VO
I’ve arrived in America to begin playing the biggest role of my life… 

VO 
This is me newly Bonded in Live and Let Die.  Suave and skilled, even though I say it myself… out-manoeuvring 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 err, tickling my nipples

VO 
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

VO 
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 is not where this story starts. So, where do we begin?  Over to my son Geoffrey, who’s rooting round my old house…

GEOFFREY MOORE  
I mean this is basically Roger’s… our shrine of the old man… These are Roger’s ashes.

GEOFFREY MOORE 
Oy oy oy… Nope, no, no. Hang about. Ooh I think this is it! 

ROGER 
I think my eyesight has really gone because I can’t focus any more 

CHRISTIAN 
Get that camera away from me

GEOFFREY MOORE
There must be about 40 tapes… 

DEBORAH
Well hello Mr Moore… 

LUISA 
Come on sweetie 

ROGER 
Do myself… ha ha - that’s me! 

ROGER
Oooh!  Cars - quickly quickly quickly!  

CHRISTIAN 
Daddy get on the ferrari! 

ROGER 
Oh shit!

ROGER 
What was that you were saying, Maud, about not being able to eat any more? 


ROGER 
It keeps flashing up there’s not enough light 

OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN’S FRIEND
Oh let’s come into the light darling! 

ROGER 
Go Maud 



DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Terrific

VO
I lived a pretty glamorous life… somehow becoming one of the world’s most famous and desirable stars. 

VO
When people asked me about the biggest character I played, I always answered ‘of course it’s the world’s most loved spy…’  

WOMAN
Oh James

VO
But my greatest creation?  

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VO
Well the truth is, my greatest creation… was somebody called Roger Moore.

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ROGER 
This is me 


VO
Well the truth is, my greatest creation was somebody called Roger Moore. Roger Moore. Roger Moore



VO
Ba ba ba ba bummmmm

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PRODUCER
Can you do it?

JANE SEYMOUR
No

PRODUCER 


PRODUCER
Nice, that’s very good

PRODUCER
Take 1

JOAN COLLINS
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 (gulp) “Yes, hi, how are you?”


GLORIA HENDRY
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 me. Never saw a Bond movie before, and um, this restaurant, when I went in, Roger walks in, I said “Oh my God!”. And I said “Gloria be calm.”  He was so handsome! 


JANE SEYMOUR 
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. 


PIERCE BROSNAN
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.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
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. 


DAVID WALLIAMS 
It was my birthday. It’s like eight o clock in the morning and I get a call: “Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear David, Happy birthday to you”. 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! 


VO 
You may think I was born wearing black tie and cradling a Martini

But nothing could be further from the truth

VO
I was born October 1927 in Stockwell, then a working class area of South London.

There I am!   Look at those cheeks.  Ripe for squeezing!  

ERNIE DUNSTALL 
Billy, 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. 


DEBORAH MOORE 
They weren’t rich.  They were working class.  My grandmother worked in a tearoom, and my grandfather was, you know, on the beat. 


MERV GRIFFIN
One would suspect that 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.  Do you know what I mean
I don’t want to say you’re pretentious, no, no, no, that would be wrong.

ROGER 
Well my father was a very posh policeman you see.

MERV GRIFFEN
Was he?

VO 
From an early age I perfected the art of pretending to listen, fifty percent 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. 

VO 
By seventeen 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

MICHAEL CALLAN 
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.


MICHAEL CALLAN
He was a flamboyant, gay, 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.   

VO 
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. 

ROGER
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?” 

ROGER
Why not? 

VO
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.  Okay 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.

VO 
He spoke with my father and even offered to pay my fees for drama school.  I was going to RADA! 

ROGER 
I went to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

MERV GRIFFEN
Oh my word

ROGER
Where they taught me I suppose, to speak posh.

ACTRESS
Give me your hand Orlando, what do you say sister?

ACTOR
I pray you marry

JOAN COLLINS
RADA concentrated a lot on elocution. You had to have received English pronunciation, upper class accent.

ACTOR
Mark, silent King! 

STEVEN BERKOFF 
It’s rather charming but it eradicates part of your identity 


VO
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

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
There’s a box full of treasures here.  A lot of secrets in this box. 

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
My name is Shaun van Steyn.  My mother married Roger Moore, and he became my stepfather 
 
SHAUN VAN STEYN 
Let’s see what we’ve got here.When my mother passed away, this was one of the things I found. All kinds of secret stuff, marriage certificates, divorce certificates. Here’s some love letters.

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
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 pussy! 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.  

VO 
Yes thank you Shaun.


VO
No-one wants to hear this. What can I say?  I was smitten and she was bitten

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
My mother was vivacious and mesmerising. He was besotted with her.  She was 6 years older than him. She liked the young studs, what can I say? 

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
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.  

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
Roger was dishwashing. 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. 

VO 
This wasn’t quite what RADA had trained me for

SHAUN VAN STEYN
He used to take me to Clapham Common and 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.

VO 
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.

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
Intense love, and intense bitchiness.  She was a real bitch to him. I remember once she got so mad she grabbed all his clothes and put them in the bathtub, and then told him to get out. So there he is standing in the street with nothing on, poor sod. 

VO 
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… 

VO
Singer Dorothy Squires.  Or Dot, to her friends. 


ANNETTE ANDRE
Dorothy Squires, oh, she was something else.

JOHN GLEN
Oh, I remember Dorothy Squires very well.  She was a big chapter in Roger's life.

EVIE BRICUSSE
She was a wild lady.  Terrifying, actually! People when they come in and see you they wanna see glamour. This is what they really want. They want an escape! 

JOHNNY TUDOR
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.

JOHNNY TUDOR
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.

DOROTHY SQUIRES
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.

DOROTHY SQUIRES
So 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.
I said “who writes his scripts?”, you know

JOHNNY TUDOR 
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.

DOROTHY SQUIRES 
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.


VO 
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 …

EMILY SQUIRES 
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? 


JOHNNY TUDOR 
She took him to America because 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”. 

VO 
In the summer of 1953 Doorn and I were divorced. Dot became wife number two, and we were headed for Hollywood! 

JOHNNY TUDOR 
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?

VO 
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.

ROGER 
The great things I learned from Dorothy was to become my own person.  I used to be very, very nervous. Rather timid. And from the time I met Dorothy I then started developing a persona.  I became somebody called… Roger Moore. 


VO
And “Roger Moore” was about to become somebody. 
MGM offered me a seven year contract.  The character I had created seemed to be having the desired effect.

LIZ TAYLOR 
How do you do?

ROGER
Enchante 

VAN JOHNSON 
I hear you played in Rome.

ROGER 
I play all the tournaments.

VAN JOHNSON 
How do you make out?

ROGER 
Brilliantly. Until the second round, then invariably some young Australian or American schoolboy beats me.

OLDER GUY 
But nobody beats him in jumping over the net and congratulating the winner.

ROGER 
I'm the champion graceful loser.

VO 
The critics agreed my lothario of the tennis court was pretty dreadful, but MGM assured me that they were grooming me for stardom.  

They swapped the tennis shorts for a pair of tights, and put me in a bigger role, this time opposite Lana Turner.  I didn’t ask to keep the tights 

LANA TURNER
Look out for your heart's girls.  This Roger Moore is going places in pictures.  
He's… quite a fellow

VO
Two years ago I’d been eating beans on toast every night. Now I was sampling some of the finer dishes… and I don’t mean the food. 

MICHAEL CALLAN
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 is 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!”


VO 
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

KIRK DOUGLAS
Gorgeous, gorgeous

VO
My old pal Kirk Douglas 


ROGER
Was that it?


ROGER
Could I have a retake please?

KIRK DOUGLAS
I sang my goddamn heart out, now 

ROGER
We have a retake, great

VO
Other dear friends I made around this time were David Niven, Gregory Peck and Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra.

GEOFFREY MOORE
They met in the late 50s, in Los Angeles.  And became, became close friends.


FRANK SINATRA
Hey Rog!  You’re a generous and caring person, and a hell of a classy guy

DEBORAH MOORE
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. It 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! 


FRANK SINATRA
Salut! 

VO
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.

ERNIE DUNSTALL 
She was always a bit worried about not having children.  And Roger did want to have children. 

DOROTHY SQUIRES
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. 

EMILY SQUIRES 
She told me afterwards that she'd had three miscarriages.

VO 
My heart broke for Dot. We had 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…  


VO 
I now had a ridiculous plumed helmet to go with the tights. And 36 inches of flashing steel!

The dialogue was mediaeval…
BRUNO
Stop him - he’s making for the dungeons! 

ROGER 
Thank you Bruno - now I know the way! 

VO
And my audience may all have been twelve year olds, but I was the undisputed king of the playground.

NARRATOR
The Alaskans! Starring Roger Moore!  
VO 
Here I was in yet another popular period piece for television. 
 
NARRATOR
Dorothy Provine! 

VO
But for me, TV just didn’t have the cachet - or the cash - of cinema 


VO 
However, working in television did have certain… advantages

JOAN COLLINS 
Now the rumour was that he liked the ladies. And the rumour was true of course!


ROGER
Hey now, come on [INAUDIBLE]

VO 
Dorothy Provine was my co-star. What can I say?  We had an on-screen chemistry that…  continued off it 

UPSYNC
DOROTHY PROVINE 
Now where’s that $100 you borrowed from me? 

ROGER MOORE
Now don’t worry about that, I have a goldmine here I think… 

JOHNNY TUDOR 
Dorothy found out that he was having the affair because he was talking in his sleep. She woke up in the night and she said, “You bastard, 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 “But your name's Dorothy” 
She said “Yeah but you call me Dot.” 
Got him!  Haha! 

ERNIE DUNSTALL
We were driving between the sound stages on the lot, he said “If we see Dorothy Provine, he says, because I've fallen out with her because I 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…

VO 
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 

DEBORAH MOORE
Well.  My mother said that 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.

CHRISTIAN MOORE
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.


GEOFFREY MOORE
She had a name for herself. She had a beautiful voice. Her mother was an opera singer. 

CHRISTIAN MOORE
She was somebody that was a real go-getter.

DEBORAH MOORE
This producer of the film that she was going to be in had said to her, “There's an American actor coming, Roger Moore. Um, 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.

GEOFFREY MOORE
Ciao. Hello. My name Luisa. Roger. Ciao.  Must have been very strange.It was on a film called ‘The Rape of the Sabine Women’


VO 
Don’t laugh….  These movies were all the rage in the 60sThe 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… keep the British end up. Just ignore the dodgy dubbing 


GEOFFREY
He was wearing, you know, one of those centurion outfits, and she had the Greek goddess sort of hairstyle… 

DEBORAH
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.

GEOFFREY
She had charisma. I could see why the old man was besotted with her

EVIE BRICUSSE
She was absolutely beautiful. And you could understand why, you know, Roger would've fallen madly in love with her. 

VO 
What can I say? We spoke the international language of love …There was however… the small matter of… my wife

ERNIE DUNSTALL
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!” 

JOHNNY TUDOR 
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 fucking heart that's bleeding!”.  Always very dramatic, Dorothy, you see? 

VO
June 1962. I admit, in my personal life I was no saint. Professionally on the other hand

INTERVIEWER
Mr. Moore, why do you think you were chosen to play the Saint?

ROGER 
Because Sean Connery wasn't available! 

BOTH
[LAUGHING]

VO 
The Saint was what I had been waiting for. He would be the ‘Roger Moore’ I had spent many years, and two marriages, perfecting. 
WOMAN 
Come darling, I want you to meet the most fantastic man.  I’ve told you about him.  John, this is Simon Templar.  (Horn stab)

VO
No swords, no sandals, no armour… not even a toga.  Instead it was a cool car, a stiff drink and some sharp suits


WAITER
Monsieur Simon Templar 

VO 
He was the foundation for the rest of my career:  Simon Templar.  Or if you like… Simon Template. 

ROGER  
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.

PIERCE BROSNAN
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



VO 
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 sixties we looked even better in colour.Oh look, there’s Steven Berkoff playing a mustachioed henchman, all in a lovely duck egg blue 


BERKOFF BADDY  
He had a severe attack… he was dying, I didn’t have any choice. 

STEVEN BERKOFF 
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. 



PIERCE BROSNAN 
I wanted to have hair like Roger Moore! [LAUGHING]. I used to try and get my hair to look like Roger’s.


ANNETTE ANDRE
Good looks, humour and kindness 


ANNETTE ANDRE
We were starting with a scene that was quite wordy.  The director calls “right action…”

UPSYNC
ANNETTE ANDRE
Mr Williams I heard about Owen Thomas


ANNETTE ANDRE
And I do a part of the scene. 

ANNETTE ANDRE
I saw the light of the search party from the house 

ANNETTE ANDRE
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.
 
ANNETTE 
Thanks for rescuing me in there Mr err? 

ROGER 
Templar, Simon Templar. It was a pleasure

PIERCE BROSNAN
That put him on the map, that put him in all our hearts.  


PIERCE BROSNAN
Once Roger found Roger in life, Roger became Roger and embellished Roger, which is a great talent onto itself. 


CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
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


CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
You know, becoming kind of the hero of our own story.


VO
The Saint was sold to over 60 countries around the world, reaped more than £350 million in profit…  

ANNOUNCER
Roger Moore is there to make the presentation!

VO
…and made me a household name from Bogota to Bognor Regis. 

DEBORAH MOORE
It was confusing for a while when I was little, because I used to think, I didn’t understand why there was a Dad on television, and there was a Dad that came home. 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 climb to the top of the slide and go “MY DADDY’S FAMOUS!  MY DADDY’S THE SAINT!”

INTERVIEWER
I'd say that Roger Moore never had it so good.  What is the attraction behind playing in these long running series? 

ROGER 
Money…

VO
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 ‘dotted’ line and give me a divorce, cast a pretty dark shadow over my success.  

EMILY SQUIRES 
I always felt that she put him where he was. He wasn't anything before her, and he was after her.

JOHNNY TUDOR 
She never got over him. Ever. Never got over him.
 
DOROTHY SQUIRES
Look at, this is when he loved me actually


JOHNNY TUDOR 
It became an obsession, I suppose.

VO 
Sadly, Dot’s efforts to hold on to me became increasingly desperate 
DOROTHY SQUIRES
And that, this is the jacket

EVIE BRICUSSE 
It was really bad. She did everything she could. She was determined, you’re not going to get away from me. No way.

EMILY SQUIRES
She wanted to take me to places Roger might be. She wanted me to enter myself in a beauty pageant at Battersea Park that Roger was judging. And she kept making me stand on the scales to see that I wasn’t going up from 9 stone.  I went I’m not going to do this! So I didn’t. 
 
JOHNNY TUDOR 
She bought these law books. And she found some very old law: restoration of conjugal rights. And she won the case! But you’re not going to get somebody to go back into bed with you because of that - he didn’t go back did he? 

DEBORAH MOORE 
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. 

JOHNNY TUDOR 
She got into the litigation. Roger Moore and Luisa were at some gala on TV and Kenneth More was the MC. 

KENNETH MORE
Now, Roger and Luisa Moore 

JOHNNY TUDOR
And he introduced them as “Mr. and Mrs. Moore”. She said “That was Mrs. Moore, no, I'm Mrs Moore! That's Luisa Mattioli, its not Mrs. Moore”. So she sued him. She sued everybody! Twenty court cases, that's how she lost a lot of money.

EMILY SQUIRES 
Lawyers, solicitors, they weren’t happy times.

JOHNNY TUDOR 
The director general at the time said “You can’t sue anybody else”. He’s the one that made her a vexatious litigant. You know what she said?  “I’ll sue you!” 

VO 
The 11th 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.  

EVIE BRICUSSE
She hardly spoke English, but she was so beautiful and funny.

JOAN COLLINS
We did lots of family pictures and group pictures. One of her favourite remarks when we're all sitting there was “Oh, try to look pretty!” 

NANETTE NEWMAN 
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?! ‘


EVIE BRICUSSE
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.  He said, what's that for? And she said “Just-a in-a case!”  True story!

NANETTE NEWMAN 
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!

INTERVIEWER
Now that there are so many years you are Simon Templar, do you still like this man?

ROGER
He’s kept me in good clothes, good food, good company. Of course I like him!

VO 
Simon Templar had given me confidence and class. My south London upbringing was by now a distant memory. 

TONY CURTIS 
Oh your starkness, you’re so bright. Your carriage awaits 

VO 
So playing an English lord in The Persuaders… 

TONY CURTIS
It’s got a hat

VO
Wasn’t too big a stretch

TONY CURTIS 
Let me carry your train for you sir 

ROGER 
Daniel you really do bring a fresh meaning to the word peasant 

TONY CURTIS 
Your dukeship, anything!


VO 
I shared top billing with Hollywood legend Tony Curtis who played Danny Wilde, a Brooklyn kid made good

TONY CURTIS 
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.  


VO
The show was built around beautiful women, fast cars, and glamorous locations.


JOAN COLLINS
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, “we'll put you up in a hotel”. I thought, well, this is nice.

VO 
It’s a hard life being an actor isn’t it? 

ROGER 
Why don’t you switch that thing off? 
JOAN 
I think I’ll switch that thing off 

JOAN COLLINS
I was a photographer. I was very bohemian. Somewhat avant garde. 

JOAN 
You may kiss me!	

JOAN COLLINS 
Kissing Roger was fine. Kissing Tony was like kissing an ashtray.

TONY CURTIS
Bye

JOAN COLLINS
Mmmm

ROGER 
Is this an excuse me or can we all join in? 

TONY CURTIS
Sorry

JOAN COLLINS
Mmmm, I like it! I like it! 

VO 
It was in The Persuaders that added the final piece of the jigsaw to my repertoire… something that would become my trademark.  

ROGER 
You must forgive him. His early life was influenced rather heavily by Rudolph Valentino… 

VO
A soupcon of tongue in cheek humour. 

ROGER 
There’s no need to kneel I’m a very democratic lord 

VO 
With Lord Brett Sinclair I had become an upper class gentleman, literally.  I had 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.  


VO
And then, one day, the call I‘d been waiting for finally came… 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
The 3 last digits were 007, 007. And he answered the phone with ‘007?’ Cos that’s what you do.  And the voice said “That you are Roger” He must have gone “oh great, that’s wonderful…..LUISAAA!!!!” 

JOAN COLLINS 
We had a drink, he said “I’ve got some great news.  I’ve got some great news…”   

GEOFFREY MOORE 
Chin chin! 
 
JOAN COLLINS 
Everybody was thrilled and we toasted the new 007.  I said “Can I be a Bond girl?” 

BURT REYNOLDS
Roger Moore is an amazing man because he seems to be a very humble, human guy who lets it all sort of, hang out.   

MICHAEL CAINE 
You’re talking about all of us! 

BURT REYNOLDS
No I’m not.  He err, 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.

VO
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 had made a mess of my underwear.

VO 
The speed boat incident did nothing to calm the nerves. Not mine, and certainly not of my bosses Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli. 
 
JANE SEYMOUR 
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. 


VO 
The studio bosses wanted a big American name - Paul Newman or Steve McQueen. But Cubby and Harry fought for yours truly, and I was forever grateful.

JANE SEYMOUR 
Everyone was nervous about anyone replacing THE Bond, who was Sean 

PIERCE BROSNAN 
Connery just took the world by storm. Bond. 

BOND
A martini, shaken not stirred 

PIERCE BROSNAN 
And Roger had to pick up that mantel. Very demanding, because Connery had made such an indelible impression. 

BARBARA BROCCOLI
Sean had established the role, and was a diamond in the rough. And Roger was a well-honed diamond.


MICHAEL G WILSON 
He had this charm about him, he had a casualness that seemed to go with the times

WOMAN
Such a delicate touch. 

ROGER
Sheer magnetism, darling.

JANE SEYMOUR 
When I met him the first thing he was trying to do was make sure he could shoot this silver magnum thing without going like that every time. Every time he went like that (recoils).  He definitely had a problem and he was not looking Bond-like to be going ‘woo!’ every time.  

VO 
And then came the line which 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… 

ROGER
My namesh Bond.  Jamesh Bond.  And I mustn’t do that! 

JANE SEYMOUR 
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. 


PIERCE BROSNAN 
Ohhhh [EXHALES]. Alright… what’s my name? The name’s Bond… James Bond. 

ROGER
My name’s Bond… James Bond. 

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

GLORIA HENDRY 
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!



GLORIA HENDRY 
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…  

GLORIA 
Oh James! 

GLORIA HENDRY 
He said you lucky my wife is Italian! 

GLORIA 
Tsssk! 

BARBARA BROCCOLI
This was one of the first major films that had an interracial relationship.  It was quite a remarkable thing for the time

VO
I couldn’t believe my luck!  Glorious Gloria, and sensational Seymour
 

JANE 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.  

ROGER
I just need a little bit of information, that’s all… 

JANE SEYMOUR 
The eyebrow was the hugest issue.  Every time his eyebrow went up they went CUT! Roger! The eyebrow!  


SOLITAIRE
I’ve lost it…

JANE SEYMOUR
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!

VO
Ah yes, my eyebrow. Some say I built a career on it

STEVEN BERKOFF
The very singular ability to manipulate his left eyebrow. The eyebrow would go bzzzzzz. That was… how can he do just the one eyebrow? 


VO 
That furry little fella seduced the world. And so did I.



VO
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! 

BURT REYNOLDS
What about the Bond reviews now?  Are you ready for that? 

ROGER
I’ll tell you, well I think the good critics in America are the ones who liked it

MICHAEL CAINE
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. 

BURT REYNOLDS
Well you see that they don’t decide who becomes a star, the people decide who becomes a star. 

MICHAEL CAINE
Oh, that’s very good

VO 
It’s a good thing it’s the people who decide, because the critics were not impressed.

ANNOUNCER
Its Live and Let Die. Roger Moore is James Bond, 007.
VO
Our box office on the other hand was in rude health. 
ANNOUNCER
Its Live and Let Die

VO
We were off to the races!   

PARKINSON
Ladies and gentlemen, Roger Moore!


VO
The success of Live and Let Die meant I was very much in demand on the chat show circuit

SAMMY DAVIS JNR
Roger Moore! 

VO
This was where the “Roger Moore” character I built so carefully could really shine 

DICK CAVETT 
You seem perfect

ROGER 
Are you proposing or something?

DICK CAVETT 
No, no, nothing like that. I-I-you just seem perfect.

DICK CAVETT 
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 bastard”.

DICK CAVETT 
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 extremely

ROGER 
All over which place?

DICK CAVETT 
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.

ROGER
Is this a monologue?

DICK CAVETT
Oh

DICK CAVETT 
The combination of his looks and his personality and his pleasantness and his humour… and the fact that he liked me!

DICK CAVETT 
I'm trying to get to the question and I can't think

ROGER
He's not reading it either!

DICK CAVETT 
How do you handle all these women?

ROGER 
My wife looks after it for me. She's Italian.

DICK CAVETT 
Your wife's Italian?

ROGER 
Yeah.

DICK CAVETT 
Ah. Then you have no problem at all. 

ROGER 
I have no problem whatsoever.  Oof! 

DICK CAVETT 
Was hardly worth that long question, was it?

DICK CAVETT 
He was very amusing, pleasing as a personality. He was just the perfect talk show guest.

DAVID WALLIAMS
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.

SAMMY DAVIS Jr.
Is there anyone in England that's got that kind of zany, nutty, marvellous kind of humour?

ROGER 
No, no. Not since I left.

EVIE BRICUSSE
Naughty sense of humour. Really naughty. He'd start telling a story and everybody would go, Oh, Roger, stop it for God's sake.
ROGER 
I always wanted to be a comic. Well the reason I wanted to be a comic was that when I did drama everybody laughed, so I thought, well, I'm a comedian.

VO
Alright, enough larking about. Back to the day job. The Man With The Golden Gun began filming in Thailand. 

There was a lot riding on it. Despite the box office success of Live & 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… 

MAUD ADAMS
Ow, you’re hurting my arm!

BOND 
I'll break it unless you tell me where those bullets go.

VO 
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.

BOND 
You see what you can do when you try?

DICK CAVETT 
Where did you get the reputation for being such a male chauvinist pig?  Somebody had that impression of you 

ROGER
Through playing Bond.  

DICK CAVETT 
I suppose that would be it

BOND
I said where? 


ROGER
Playing Bond, yes you get accused of male chauvinism. 

VO
And I could see why - this trailer is practically an advert for male chauvinism. 

ANNOUNCER 
James Bond!  On the job! The girls are willing! 

VO 
In December 1974 The Man with the Golden Gun 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

DAVID WALLIAMS
The Man With The Golden Gun isn't really a financial success, so suddenly it all started to look messy.

JOHN GLEN 
There was just a feeling in the business I think, the first two Roger films weren't quite up to snuff in a lot of ways 

INTERVIEWER
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?

ROGER 
It is always nice to get a good notice. You know its lovely.

INTERVIEWER
You like a good notice? 

ROGER 
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!

VO
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.

DICK CAVETT
Have you ever forgiven the critic who called you a lump of English roast beef?  

ROGER 
Yup…

DICK CAVETT
Can you find it in your heart?

ROGER 
Oh sure, I can. I know where I'd like to stick the mustard too.

BARRY NORMAN 
You’re very self deprecating about our acting. Is that defensive?

ROGER 
Yes, it's defensive. I always try to say it before anybody else does.

BARRY NORMAN 
But if you didn't say it, perhaps nobody else would?

ROGER 
I never thought of that. Maybe I started the wrong way.

BARBARA BROCCOLI 
He was so self-deprecating that people joined in. But actually, you know, he was a very fine actor. 

PARKINSON
Why do you always put yourself down? 

ROGER 
Well, I've stopped doing that.

PARKINSON
You have?

ROGER 
No. I now say I'm marvellous.

PARKINSON
You do? That's all right. What caused the change of heart?

ROGER 
The critics started believing me.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
Yeah, he was modest. He was maybe even, shy? You know he was so handsome that you forgot what a good actor he was.


NANETTE NEWMAN 
He was never enormously confident.  But he could give the impression of being confident.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
The audience doesn’t have to know what you’re doing. They just have to know that YOU know what you’re doing. 

BARBARA BROCCOLI 
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.

ROGER 
Oh did you want me to go up? I thought I had to go DOWN? 

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

VO 
I had wrestled with the question of how to become James Bond, with limited success.In the end, the answer was so simple. 


VO
Stop trying to turn Roger Moore into James Bond. 

Turn James Bond, into Roger Moore. 

BOND
Hope you enjoyed the show. Goodnight! 

PIERCE BROSNAN 
He knew how to play Roger Moore and that's a gift. That's a real, real gift.


WOMAN 
If there’s anything you would like? Anything at all? 

BOND 
Well I had lunch but I seem to have missed dessert

MICHAEL CALLAN
He said “I had my stride”. I always remember that. “I had my stride with that” 
It’s just great entertainment. 


VO
It was shocking how much fun Jaws and I had in this, ahem, electrifying scene

DAVID WALLIAMS 
The Spy Who Loved Me couldn’t be more different to Live and Let Die and Man With the Golden Gun. 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.


ROGER 
As you can see, it is noisy and it is cold.

DIRECTOR
Ready, action!

JOHN GLEN 
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.


ROGER 
People have been willing to have a joke. And then it is fun, as you said before, an experie… 

It's raining on his set. You see, this is what I mean by being able to take a joke. I will go down and kill them in a second. Thank you very much, fellas! 

MICHAEL G. WILSON 
????? Between scenes, Cubby and Roger, they’d put up the backgammon table, and have a great time.

BARBARA BROCCOLI
You would always hear the rattling of the dice in between takes. It was the longest running backgammon game in history, because they started first day of shooting and it would just continue through the whole shooting period. And, you know, the crew loved it - the crew were always, you know, asking “what’s the score this week?”  It was always an astronomical number. 

DIRECTOR
Action!

DAVID WALLIAMS
There isn’t a single outfit that Roger wears that I would not wear. And I love him in his naval outfit. He looks incredible.

BOND 
Your time's running out Stromberg.

ROGER  
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 Curt Juergen, 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.


JOHN GLEN 
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!” 


MAN FROM MARKETING TEAM 
It’s the biggest

VO 
Despite the damage to my perfect posterior, the marketing team remained confident of my sex appeal

MAN FROM MARKETING TEAM 
… 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.

JOHN GLEN 
Can I have that trim John? 

VO 
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. 
LEWIS GILBERT
Tell you what would help it - if you were just a touch longer 

JOHN GLEN 
Yep.  Ok

JOHN GLEN 
I directed the pre-title sequence. I found myself in Mount Asgard on the Canadian Arctic…


JOHN GLEN 
Three weeks it took us to get this shot, this one shot. 
It was Roger's favourite action scene. He just loved it.

GEOFFREY MOORE  
And he's falling and falling and falling and this and it's silence.

DAVID WALLIAMS 
I remember watching that… you know it's one of the most famous bits in cinema, isn't it?

GEOFFREY MOORE
Parachute opens… doof.   

MICHAEL G WILSON 
When that Union Jack came up. Oh boy. Everyone goes bananas!


DAVID WALLIAMS 
The movie had only been going for like five or ten minutes 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
Standing ovation.


BARBARA BROCCOLI 
The reaction was incredible.

VO 
A day I never thought I’d see, but the reviews came in and would you believe it, they were positive!  

DAVID WALLIAMS 
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 um, it would have been very very difficult I think for the franchise

PIERCE BROSNAN 
There was Roger coming down the mountain. Of course he saved the franchise.

WOMAN 
But James! I need you! 

BOND 
So does England 

VO 
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… gadgets

PRESENTER 
These time shifting devices… 
The portable VCR machine and home movie camera

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
Gadgets. He loved his gadgets.Especially the home video camera, and 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. 


GEOFFREY MOORE 
Ok… more tapes 

ROGER 
Alright - what’s your name? 

CHRISTIAN 
Christian Moore 

ROGER 
Christian Moore what a horror you are. And there is Geoffrey

GEOFFREY MOORE 
There must be about 40 tapes. He liked to record, you know, what was going on and here we are and look how beautiful it is, and Roger narrating 

ROGER
Right now we’re going to have impersonations

LUISA 
Oh hiiiii! Roger! Deborah! 

DEBORAH
Your father is pushing you too far 

ROGER
Pushing you to fart?  

DEBORAH
Pushing you too FAR! 


DEBORAH MOORE 
You could see more of the funny humorous side of him  

ROGER
I trust I’m in focus Luisa because I get very upset if I’m not in focus 
[LAUGHING]

GEOFFREY MOORE 
Mucking about. Great memories. There’s a lot of South of France home footage.

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
Geoffrey dug all this up right? 

PRODUCER (off screen)
Yes

CHRISTIAN MOORE
No, I haven’t seen it

CHRISTIAN
The car does not wanna work - can you come and look at it please?  Please look at the car! 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
Stefanie Powers… 

STEFANIE POWERS
Do you wanna get a close up on that? 

ROGER
I’m moving in for a close up

STEFANIE POWERS
Do you wanna get a close up on that? 

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
Oh Stefanie! 

HOME VIDEO 
ROGER
Then spin on it 

STEFANIE POWERS
Just spin on that one! 

STEFANIE POWERS
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

LUISA 
Hi darling! 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
Ok Valentino, Portofino. Olivia Newton John, yeah, that’s probably here

OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
We’re really shy! 

ROGER
Yeah


DEBORAH MOORE 
It kind of hit me that we were surrounded by fame. But for us it was just they were just their friends. It wasn’t like “Oh he’s famous”. Do you know what I mean? 

VO 
Ahh, 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! 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
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. 
MAN
Chopper is arriving in 5 minutes

ROGER
The chopper’s arriving in 5 minutes… 

EVIE BRICUSSE 
Oh, is this Roger with his camera? [CHUCKLES]
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 

EVIE BRICUSSE
There’s Joan.  
ROGER
Lovely

JOAN COLLINS
Is this with sound? With sound?

ROGER
Of course its got sound

JOAN COLLINS 
Roger never changed from the time I met him. He was always charming, funny, full of joie de vivre, telling jokes… 

JOAN COLLINS
Have you ever heard about panning?  

ROGER
Yes I have heard about 

JOAN COLLINS
You don’t know how to pan! I bet you don't know how to dolly either

ROGER 
I can track out and in!  

MAN
That’s another story… 

STEFANIE POWERS
Loved to joke, loved to find rude things to say about any given situation. It’s in the eyes - its a kind of slight mischievousness that’s always there and can be “I, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, I have a joke for you, twinkle, twinkle” 

ROGER
It’s quite amazing the flora that you find on the hills of St Paul 

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH 
I haven’t got my costume with me. Gorilla costume

NANETTE NEWMAN
We used to do a lot of laughing. The acting profession is very up and down. I sometimes wonder if people realise that it is such a precarious profession. There’s always a feeling, will it be snatched away. And he wore his success lightly really. 


LUISA
What would Pacino say?

EVIE BRICUSSE 
It’s just lovely to remember that day, you know. Extraordinary. Walking back in time

ROGER
Enough of that

CHRISTIAN MOORE
I haven’t seen this, this is like, super duper emotional 


ROGER
Luisa I’m waiting for you to say “you look beautiful”. I can’t work until I’m told I look lovely. 


ROGER  
And here we are, on the boat of Valentino

VO
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….

Well no, there is no but. Well no, that’s it. 

JOAN COLLINS
My god he was so famous. We’d walk along the street and people would stop: “James Bond!  James Bond! James Bond!” And he was very good, he would sign autographs with everybody.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
He was very easy with the people. I did notice that when we were out and about.  He had what they call “the common touch”

DAVID WALLIAMS 
We were having lunch at the Colombe d’Or.  And this lady went “oooh allo, Roger Moore!” and then she just came and sat down at the table - which you know, is a little, if you haven’t been invited, it’s a little bit of an imposition. And he happily spoke to this lady for ten minutes and was absolutely gracious with her.  And I thought wow, that’s what a superstar is. 

ROGER  
Another one of my famous tracking shots. Look at them - crumpets, the pair of them. How much?  

LUISA
How much?

CHRISTIAN MOORE
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

ROGER 
Well it’s a very nice static picture, you know

STEFANIE POWERS 
Well this is not, this is a moving picture!  

CHRISTIAN MOORE
You know, I see pictures of myself always hiding behind my mother or my father. 

GEOFFREY MOORE
When I first realised how famous he was, 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 because I thought that was, you know the son of James Bond and I looked like a donut. I thought it would be better to blend in. 


VO 
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 errr, there were some tax benefits as well. Ahem

GEOFFREY MOORE 
To the left here, Peter Seller’s 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 - they’re getting paid to make believe. So they didn’t take themselves very seriously.  

UPSYNC
INTERVIEWER 
What is the great attraction, do you think, for celebrities?  Do they come here to get away from it all? 

ROGER 
Well we come up here because there’s no such thing as microphones and television cameras 

JORG ROMANG
A lot of stars like Switzerland, and like to live in Switzerland because the locals they don’t bother them. He loved it on the mountain, he was happy. 


VO
Despite my fabulous skiing exploits on screen, I couldn't actually ski. In my 50's, I decided to learn.Thanks to my wonderful instructors, I found swooping down the piste to be fairly easy. It was stopping I had a problem with. 

JORG ROMANG 
We meant to stop here.  And what happened?  Roger panicked. And 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, kick a table, kick a table, kick another, and he ended up here, like an ostrich, with a head plant, on the table. And then Roger stands up… 

VO 
‘Madam.  A pleasure to make your acquaintance.’

VO
My original 3-picture deal was up. A new Bond was in pre-production, but I still hadn’t agreed a fee with Cubby Broccoli to star in it. 

JOHN GLEN 
I can remember when I got my first opportunity to direct a Bond, my first instruction from Cubby was: find a replacement Bond.  Because Roger was asking for too much money

INTERVIEWER
Are you going to do another Bond or what? 

ROGER 
Well we’re… we’re negotiating 

JOHN GLEN 
I searched the world for a James Bond. Well known actors, unknown actors. It went on for about 6 or 7 months at least. But at the last minute common sense prevailed. I don’t know what the deal was in the end but Roger came out smiling, put it that way! 

ROGER 
Well that was wonderful Vijay… 

VO 
For six more years and a further four films, I played the part - on and off screen.

INTERVIEWER 
Roger Moore.  007 for the fifth time and fit as a fiddle.  How do you do it dare I ask? 

ROGER 
I play the fiddle! 

BOTH
[LAUGHING]

VO 
The trailer for my final Bond film introduced Christopher Walken as my enemy.

VOICEOVER 
This man has a secret ambition! 

ZORIN
I propose to end the domination of silicon valley! 

VO
In real life, we became great chums.
-
ZORIN
100 million dollars

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
I was a big Bond fan. So the idea of being a villain was very attractive.


CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
Max Zorin is a genetically altered human being.  

-
ZORIN & GRACE JONES
[LAUGHING]

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
He drives a blimp, you know? 


CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
Who do you know who…? And he drives it himself, you know, with the switches.  Pick you up in my blimp!

DIRECTOR
Lighting Chris
ROGER
Physically they’re hard work. You’re in every scene, and the schedule is usually about 6 months. And that means every day from the crack of dawn. So they are long hours

CHRIS WALKEN
It was a long shoot. 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 going to sit in my apartment”. And he said “Well, no, you come to my house in Switzerland”. So I did.  


CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
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. Yeah, very much the same guy. He had a nice life. 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
And here they could walk down the street and really not get bothered. Yes there were paparazzi but they were polite you know? So here is the Olden. In Gstaad one of the most famous restaurants.  This was a very popular place.  Valentino, Elizabeth Taylor, Niven, David Niven, Richard Burton, Roger, had a beer here. And you’d come and get your drink, they would take your mug down. So there’s Burton had his, Roger had his, Niven, their name on their mugs, and they’d come here drinking with their mugs! Mugs with their mugs.  

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
When we went to shoot in France, we were going to Paris. He said “Where shall we dine?” And I said… really? You know, and he said “Fouquettes!  We’ll go to Fouquette’s!” So that night he took me to this wonderful restaurant Fouquette. “Cold white wine!” he would say. 

JOHN GLEN 
We whistled through Paris with an escort of those policemen with the blue lights flashing.  We had about 12 motorcyclists all stopping the traffic at every intersection. It’s one of the most wonderful car rides I’ve ever had!

VO
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. 

JOHN GLEN 
He was getting too old. Simple. You know, I mean he looked pretty good, but he was knocking 60 and I think he was right to quit when he did. 

VO
I wanted to find a way to put my fame to good use.  

VO 
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.

ROGER
I was exceedingly grateful to Audrey for having steered me in the right direction

VO
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 war zones, but this time I had a licence to help people.  
ROGER
I am 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.  It appears rather heroic, and it’s not. 

VO 
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
 
JOAN COLLINS 
She was quite tough, Luisa. And she used to get very angry with him a lot, a lot.

EVIE BRICUSSE
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. 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
I mean it’s tough because you know 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.  

JOAN COLLINS
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?

DEBORAH MOORE 
You know I think it was when he got slightly older. Yeah they sort of drifted apart and that made my mother 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. 

VO 
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.  

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
They just had spent 30 years together, and I think err, it was time for him to move on with his life and be happy

DEBORAH MOORE
My mother knew about it when she opened the newspapers and there it was: The new woman in Roger Moore’s life.

GEOFFREY MOORE 
I got a phonecall from my old man saying “Kid, listen, it’s just made news that you know, I’m leaving”. Ok. “You better go see your mother” 

DEBORAH MOORE 
The paparazzi would only come round when there was a scandal.  They were outside the flat, you know. 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
I go to open the door, I open the door and it’s like…  (mimics sound of camera shutters and clamouring). It’s out there before you know it.

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
Ugh… I found out from co-workers. It was in the papers and someone threw it down. 

VO 
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. 

MAN 
Sir Roger Moore, for services to charity

VO 
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!  

ROGER
There we are

VO 
Along the way I made some chums in high places 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
They were friends - Roger and the King. Prince Charles showed up one winter evening unannounced - he didn’t have a jacket. His two guys outside, and he walked in and I was sitting in the salon. And he said “Is your father here?” And they went out for dinner, unannounced. 

DEBORAH MOORE 
We were in Scott’s one time, having lunch. Suddenly, there’s a tap on Dad’s shoulder and he looks around, and he says “I just wanted to shake your hand.” It’s Bill Clinton! And Dad looks at him and goes “Oh! Hello!” He looks at me, thinking “Is that really Bill Clinton or is that a double?” Dad was speechless! He just went… And then and then he left. And it was like Dad looked at me and went “Did that just happen?” 

VO 
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.  

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
Spending the last few weeks in hospital with him, I had asked him if he was frightened and he said no. He enjoyed every minute of his life.  I don’t think he found regret in anything. 

DEBORAH MOORE 
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. 

DEBORAH MOORE 
I just sat and talked to him for a while, held his hand and stuff. 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
It slowly sunk in. And I struggled because we always had a phonecall - 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, shit gotta call Roger. He’s no longer here. 

VO
How will Roger Moore be remembered? I made over 60 movies in my career, but most people only ever wanted to talk about seven.If I could rewind, I would not want to live my life any differently. I had a lot of fun, I left no stone unturned. 


VO
How strange to see the ephemera of a life well lived up for sale

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
The reason the auction went on was, predominantly, because we realised that there was so much stuff. It was nice to get it out there and do some good for charity as well. And the response was wonderful - Roger would’ve been so surprised. 

JANE SEYMOUR 
I have amazingly good memories of him. Very funny memories of him, he really cared a lot, about people, as human beings. 

GLORIA HENDRY 
Oh my gosh he was such a jewel. Such a jewel. And he played it so well. But one thing he did was that had never happened to me before, even after. Every time he signed an autograph, he would give the book to me or give me the picture to sign too. It was amazing how giving he was. 

GEOFFREY MOORE 
There are pictures of him everywhere, and yeah it’s really very moving. When I first walked in it was, you know when you get that little ball in the throat? I haven’t had that since he passed. Seeing all this - it’s one thing to see it in a cupboard or in a garage in boxes 

AUCTIONEER 
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 pounds, here.  Emily.  

VO 
Why anybody would want this stuff is beyond me. But oh well! I’m glad they do. 

AUCTIONEER
Going once at £50,000 

VO
At least some of this money will go to charity. 

AUCTIONEER
You’re a brilliant bidder, thank you. There at £55,000. £60 it is, £60,000… Sold! £60,000, there we are!  

GEOFFREY MOORE 
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 

VO 
Allow me to raise a glass and an eyebrow one last time. A toast! To those who have shared the journey with me

SHAUN VAN STEYN 
He never forgot me. I never forgot him.  

VO 
To those who made me what I was

JOHNNY TUDOR
Before she died, the phone goes and it was Roger on the phone. 

EMILY SQUIRES
He said “Take Dorothy’s hand, squeeze it, and say Roger’s thinking of her”

JOHNNY TUDOR
She smiled, and she died.

VO 
And to my dear friends with whom I laughed and loved

ROGER 
Oh there. Right down the cakehole, there it goes. 

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN 
I miss him. I suppose that's what this is about. A chance to tell him, you know I never saw him again

CHRISTIAN MOORE 
Everyone will miss Roger but the memories of what he brought us far outweighs that. Roger was timeless. 

VO 
All that is left is to send my love to Doorn, Dot, Luisa and Kiki.

DAVID WALLIAMS
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? I’d have liked to have slept with Roger Moore! My mum would have liked to slept with Roger Moore! We'd all like to have slept with Roger Moore!  

DICK CAVETT 
Yeah…  Roger Moore. What a guy! 

PIERCE BROSNAN 
A man becomes what he dreams. He dreamt well. 

VO 
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…