Goodnight Mr Bond. Roger Moore KBE Passes Away.

[fgwrich]

Very sorry to see the brilliant Roger Moore has passed away today at the age of 89 after a short battle with Cancer. Rest In Piece The Saint.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...er-moore-dies-aged-89/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg

James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore dies aged 89 after short battle with cancer

Roger Moore
23 MAY 2017 • 2:31PM
James Bond actor dies in Switzerland aged 89
Family say he had short battle with cancer
Statement says: 'We are all devastated'
Moore portrayed 007 in seven Bond films
He is also remembered for role in The Saint
Sir Roger Moore – The Telegraph obituary
Former James Bond star Sir Roger Moore has died in Switzerland at the age of 89 after a short battle with cancer, his family has announced.

A message shared on the actor's official Twitter account read: "With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated."

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The statement continued: "It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer.

"The love with which he was surrounded in his final days was so great it cannot be quantified in words alone."

 

[TheEdge]

He'll be attempting re-entry in heaven now. RIP

 

[gordonthemoron]

Raises an eyebrow in memoriam

 

[Cowley]

He was a very funny man off screen when interviewed. RIP Roger.

 

[DaleCooper]

Was he the only person to be canonised while still alive?

 

[najaB]

Was he the only person to be canonised while still alive?

Him and Ian Ogilvy.

 

[backontrack]

"There is nothing glamorous about death." - Sir Roger Moore

RIP.

 

[DaleCooper]

Him and Ian Ogilvy.

I had a feeling here was another one.

 

[Butts]

He was also Ivanhoe and who can forget The Persuaders with Tony Curtis

 

[gazthomas]

He was my favourite Bond - cool and funny

 

[Antman]

"Hunting is a cowards pastime".

RIP Sir Roger

 

[SpacePhoenix]

R.I.P. Roger Moore

 

[deltic1989]

Sipping Martinis with the big man now.

I'm a massive Bond fan, and hearing of Sir Roger's passing fills me with sadness.
After Sean Connery's portrayal of Bond, Roger Moore had some large shoes to fill. Which he did effortlessly, bringing a suave humour to the role, which has yet to be beaten.
In my opinion his portrayal of Bond was the best, and I will never be swayed from that. I have re-watched the Moore films more than any of the others.

A sad loss, thoughts with his family.

 

[GusB]

Sipping Martinis with the big man now.

I'm a massive Bond fan, and hearing of Sir Roger's passing fills me with sadness.
After Sean Connery's portrayal of Bond, Roger Moore had some large shoes to fill. Which he did effortlessly, bringing a suave humour to the role, which has yet to be beaten.
In my opinion his portrayal of Bond was the best, and I will never be swayed from that. I have re-watched the Moore films more than any of the others.

A sad loss, thoughts with his family.

Seconded. Roger Moore was "my" bond - just like Tom Baker was "my" Doctor Who. I never really enjoyed any of the films that followed. He'll be sadly missed.

 

[Butts]

Seconded. Roger Moore was "my" bond - just like Tom Baker was "my" Doctor Who. I never really enjoyed any of the films that followed. He'll be sadly missed.

Although Moore was good in his own way, there is only one true Bond - Connery.

However there was also only one Saint - Moore

 

[GusB]

Although Moore was good in his own way, there is only one true Bond - Connery.

However there was also only one Saint - Moore

I do vaguely remember The Saint, but I must have been quite young then. I seem to recall having a model Jaguar XJS (Corgi?) when I was a kid.

 

[Butts]

I do vaguely remember The Saint, but I must have been quite young then. I seem to recall having a model Jaguar XJS (Corgi?) when I was a kid.

That was the Ian Ogilvy Saint - Moore drove a Volvo P1800 Sports Car

 

[Greenback]

Sir Roger was not my choice as the best Bond, but by all accounts he was a very good humoured man who knew his own limitations as an actor and poked fun at himself as much as anyone did. He will be missed.

 

[SteveP29]

Him and Ian Ogilvy.

And Val Kilmer

 

[SteveP29]

I do vaguely remember The Saint, but I must have been quite young then. I seem to recall having a model Jaguar XJS (Corgi?) when I was a kid.

Me too, white with the stickman logo on the bonnet

 

[najaB]

And Val Kilmer

There was no 1997 The Saint movie.

(See the last three panels of this comic.)

 

[deltic1989]

Sir Roger was not my choice as the best Bond, but by all accounts he was a very good humoured man who knew his own limitations as an actor and poked fun at himself as much as anyone did. He will be missed.

I have to agree with him being good humoured. I happened to catch an excerpt from an interview on the TV yesterday where he said that he never felt much like a hero, but was always cast as one. He said that because of this he always played heroic characters in a very tongue in cheek manner, which is evident in all his appearances as James Bond.
In my opinion the best evidence of his sense of humour was his appearance in The Cannonball Run. In a way this was a humourus cameo, where he also poked fun at his role as Bond.