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New Orleans, October 1972.

I've arrived in America to begin
playing the biggest role of my life.

This is me, newly Bonded
in Live And Let Die.

Suave and skilled, even though
I say it myself,

outmanoeuvring the baddies
at breakneck speed.

It's my first time in a powerboat,

and learning to corner one
of these powerful beasts at 60mph

takes nerves of steel.

I wouldn't say I'm out of my depth,
but the water is, er,

tickling my nipples.

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 damn thing
I could do about it.

CRASHING AND
INDISTINCT VOICES

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's not where this story starts.

So, where do we begin?

Over to my son, Geoffrey,
who's rooting around my old house.

I mean, this is basically Roger's
- our shrine of the old man.

These are Roger's ashes.

0y, 0y, 0y.

No. No.

No.

Hang about.

Oh, I think this is it.

I think my eyesight is really gone
because I can't focus any more.

Get that camera away from me.

It's roughly about 40 tapes.

Oh, hello, Mr Moore.

INDISTINCT

Do myself. Ha-ha. That's me.

OTHERS LAUGHING

Oh, quickly, quickly, quickly!

Daddy, get out... Ouch!

Come on!

All that you were saying on board
about

not being able to eat any more.

It keeps flashing up.

There's not enough light,
that's what it is.

Let's come into the light, darling.

MAN AND WOMAN SING IN ITALIAN

Come on.

Gorilla.
LAUGHTER

I lived a pretty glamorous life,

somehow becoming one of the world's
most famous and desirable stars.

When people asked me about
the biggest character I played,

I always answered,

"Of course, it's the world's
most loved spy."

Ah, James!

But my greatest creation...?

Ladies and gentlemen, Roger Moore.
Mr Roger Moore.

Roger Moore. ..well, the truth is,
my greatest creation was somebody

called Roger Moore.

This is me.

AS ROGER MOORE: Well, the truth is,
my greatest creation was somebody

called Roger Moore.

Roger Moore.

CHANGES TONE: Roger Moore.

Brrr-ah!

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bom!

Aaah!

Roger Moore.

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.

Ancl I almost went weak at the knees.

He walked towards me and said,
"Oh, you must bejoan.

"My name's Roger Moore."

I think I was swinging my satchel.
I said...

GULPS: "Yes. Hi, how are you?"

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?"

Ancl Roger walks in.

I said, "Oh, my God!"

Ancl I said, "Gloria, be calm."

He was so handsome.

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."

I was 11 years of age and we went
to Battersea Park -

Mum and my clad. Roger was there
signing autographs

and I queued up.

That's how I met Roger Moore.

The only man's autograph I ever got.

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 hospitality.

I thought this was an opportunity
to, you know, say thanks.

It was my birthday.

It was like eight o'clock in the
morning and I got a call.

AS ROGER: Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, clear 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, "|t's a shame we're not
together.

He said, "I know!"

I'm flirting with James Bond.

WOMAN SPEAKS FRENCH

You shut your eyes.
Ferme les yeux. You go...

GUN CLICKS
llfait bang!

That's the way you shoot. OK.
If you don't want to play Bond.

If you want to play Bond, you
just... Et pour Bond...

Like that. Bond? Yes.

Immediately? Immediately.

Can he do it from the back?
What, like that? Mm-hm.

Of course.

What else can he do?

Make love.

You may think I was born wearing
black tie and cradling a martini,

but nothing could be further
from the truth.

I was born in October 1927,
in Stockwell,

then a working class area
of south London.

There I am.

Look at those cheeks.

Ripe for squeezing.

Lily, his mother, was a kind,
nice woman.

She was extraordinarily
beautiful, you know.

You could see where Roger came from.

Ancl she was a lovely-looking woman.
Yeah.

George was a bluff old policeman,

playing his banjo
around the place, you know.

They weren't rich.

They were working class.

My grandmother worked in a tea room

and my grandfather was, you know,
on the beat.

One would suspect,
if you're from that strata,

you would be... AS COCKNEY:
..talking like this.

I thought all those people talk
like that.

POSH VOICE: And you're terribly...
Hello! You know what I mean?

Well, my father... I don't want
to say you're pretentious.

No, no, that would be wrong.

My father was a very posh policeman.
Oh, was he?

From an early age, I perfected
the art of pretending to listen -

50% 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.

By 17, 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.

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.

Ancl then, somehow into that -

and Roger never explained
exactly how - he was introduced

to Brian Desmond Hurst.

He was a flamboyant, gay
Oscar Wildean man.

Brian, at the time, was in his first
kind of flush of success

as a film-maker, but he was also
someone who loved young men.

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'd learned to embellish
things a little.

Ancl 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?"

Why not?

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.

OK, 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.

He spoke with my father
and even offered to pay my fees

for drama school.
ALL: Oh!

I was going to Rada.

I went to the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art where they taught me,

I suppose, to speak posh.

Racla concentrated a lot
on elocution.

You had to have received
English pronunciation,

upper-class accent.

TH EY PERFORM
VOCAL EXERCISE

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, er, unravel the mysteries
of the fairer sex.

One of them would become my first
wife, Doorn van Steyn.

By God, for the next eight years,
that woman had me in a spin.

There's a box
full of treasures here.

A lot of secrets in this box.

My name is Shaun van Steyn.

My mother married Roger Moore
and he became my stepfather.

Here's some love letters.

"Darling, Doornie,
precious heart,

"|'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.

"PS, I'd love to bite your bottom."

Yes, thank you, Shaun!

No-one wants to hear this.

What can I say?
I was smitten and she was bitten.

My mother was vivacious
and mesmerising.

He was besotted with her.

She was six years older than him.

She liked the young studs.
What can I say?

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.

Roger was dish washing -

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.

This wasn't quite what Rada
had trained me for.

He used to take me to
Clapham Common,

helped me sail my little toy yacht
that he bought me.

Yeah, 18 years old.

You think back to when you were 18.

You didn't want to be lumbered
with a kid.

He was so sweet, gentle, kind.

He was my hero.

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.

Intense love and intense bitchiness.

She was a real bitch to him.

So it's 1952.

There I was, living in a one-roomed
flat, looking after a nine-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...

...singer Dorothy Squires,

or Dot to her friends.

Dorothy Squires.
Oh, she was something else.

Oh, I remember Dorothy Squires
very well.

She was a big chapter
in Roger's life.

She was a wild lady.

Terrifying, actually.

People, when they come in and see
you, they want to see glamour.

This is what they want - an escape.

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 turned up.

And there would 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.

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.

The telephone rang. I picked up
the telephone and he said,

"|'m at the station." I said,
"Who are you?" "Roger Moore."

Well, I said,
"What do you look like?"

So he said,
"|'m short, fat and bald."

So I went back and I said, "Somebody
go down the stairs and get a short,

"fat, bald guy," you know.

I said, "How do you do?
Would you have a drink?"

So he said, "I have an ulcer."

So, "Oh, I said, 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, "Oh, who writes his
scripts?" You know.

He said, "Well, the last train must
be gone by now, Dorothy.

"So you'll have to bloody
stay there, 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.

He carried me upstairs

and I thought, "What the hell?"

Ancl I watched him go down the lawn,
the following morning.

I thought
"What the hell have I clone?

"I've never slept with anybody
in my house like that before."

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.

She was the one that pushed him.

He took advantage of it.

Dorothy's my auntie.

I remember she said to me,
once, "Why wouldn't you do

"this if you loved him?"

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 -

"your photo sessions for, like,
knitting patterns -

"you've got to go to America."

In the summer of 1953,
Doorn and I were divorced.

Dot became wife number two
and we were headed for Hollywood.

I think she moulded him.

He's 23 and he's got
this charismatic woman who's

a huge star - told him to get his
teeth done,

he's going to listen to her,
isn't he?

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.

The great things I learned
from Dorothy

was to become my own person.

I used to be very, very nervous -
rather timid.

From the time I met Dorothy,

I then started developing a persona.

I became somebody called
Roger Moore.

ECHO EFFECT: Roger Moore, Roger
Moore.

And Roger Moore was about
to become somebody.

MGM offered me
a seven-year contract.

The character I'd created seemed
to be having the desired effect.

I was to play opposite Lana Turner.

I didn't ask to keep the tights.

Look out for you're hearts, girls.

This Roger Moore is going places
in pictures.

He's quite a fellow.

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.

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? There's this kind of
elevated sense of, you know, winning

the lottery and really knowing
you're winning the lottery.

Your number is five, four, six.
You won, kiss her.

Hollywood life was wonderful.

We met Elvis, a big fan of Dot's.

I was rubbing shoulders
with the stars.

Many of them became lifelong
friends.

Here, captured by my own trusty
camera

many years later, there's
a very memorable visit

from a Hollywood legend.

Gorgeous, gorgeous.
My old pal, Kirk Douglas.

HE SINGS IN ITALIAN

Was that it?

Now he... ROGER: Could I have
a retake, please?

I sang my goddamn heart out.
Could we have a retake?

We have a retake, right.

Other dear friends I made
around this time were David Niven,

Gregory Peck and Ol' Blue Eyes
himself, Frank Sinatra.

They met in the late '50s
in Los Angeles

and became close friends.

Hey, R09,

you're a generous and caring person

and a hell of a classy guy.

Frank, he'd want all the men to sit
around and drink with him.

I remember Dad trying to keep up
with Frank.

AS SINATRA: "Come on, Roger!
It's not time to go to bed now!

It was 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.

Salute!

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.

She was always a bit worried
about not having children,

and Roger didn't want to have
children.

I wanted a baby.

I had my fallopian tubes blown
in England,

but it wasn't a success,
so I had them clone in Beverly Hills.

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

My heart broke for Dot.

We'd 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...

...television.

IVANHOE THEME TUNE

I now had a ridiculous plumed
helmet to go with the tights.

And 36 inches of flashing steel.

The dialogue was medieval.

Stop him! He's making
for the dungeons.

Thank you, Bruno.
Now I know the way.

And my audience may all have been
12-year-olds,

but I was the undisputed
king of the playground.

VOICE OVER: The Alaskans.

Starring Roger Moore...

Here I was in yet another popular
period piece for television.

...Dorothy Provine...

But, for me, TV just didn't
have the cachet -

or the cash - of cinema.

# Hello, my baby...

However, working in television
did have certain, er,

advantages.

# Send me a kiss. #

Now, the rumour was that
he liked the ladies

and, urn, the rumour was true,
of course.

Dorothy Provine was my co-star.

What can I say? We had an on-screen
chemistry that, er,

continued off it.

Now, where's that
$100 you borrowed from me?

Now, don't worry about that.

I have a gold mine here, I think.

Dorothy found out
that he was having an affair,

because he was talking in his sleep.
She woke up in the night, she said,

"You bastard, you're having an
affair with that Dorothy Provine?

"What are you talking about,
Dorothy? I'm not.

Said, "Yes, you were, you were
calling her name out in your sleep.

He said, "Well, your name's Dorothy.

She said,
"Yeah, but you call me Dot."

Got him.

We were driving between
the sound stages on the lot.

He said,
"|f we see Dorothy Provine,"

he said, "because I've fallen
out with her,

"because I've packed up with her,"
and that.

"She's doing this business now -

"every time I see her, she sticks
her nose in the air and goes

"all haughty and walks by and that."

And, sure enough, as she saw us,
the nose was in the air

and round the corner she walked,

and Roger and I continued
on our way,

just giggling and laughing.

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.

Well, my mother said
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."

Ancl it was Dad in, I think,
something like Ivanhoe.

It was one of those things
that had been clubbed into Italian.

Luisa had accomplished a lot
in her career.

You know, from racing car driver,
and then she was one of the first

Miss ltalys and one of the first TV
presenters in Italy,

as an actress and a singer.

She had a name for herself
and she had a beautiful voice.

Her mother was an opera singer.

She was somebody that was
a real go-getter.

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, you know,
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.

Ciao. Hello.

My name. Luisa. Roger. Ciao.

It must have been very strange.

It was on a film called
The Rape Of The Sabine Women.

Don't laugh! These movies were all
the rage in the '60s.

The low cost of lab our in Italy
meant you could afford huge crowd

scenes like this one.

With all these Italians,
it was down to me to, er,

keep the British end up.

Just ignore the dodgy dubbing.

ITALIAN DUBBING
UNTRANSLATED

He was wearing some... You know, one
of those centurion outfits

and she had the Greek goddess
sort of hairstyle.

ITALIAN DUBBING
UNTRANSLATED

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?"

Ancl she was like, "Are you crazy?"

You know, "|'m already engaged."

Ancl she was engaged to quite
a well-known gynaecologist.

But I think they must have had
this spark

and they fell in love.

She had charisma.

You could see why the old man
was besotted with her.

She was absolutely beautiful

and you could understand why,
you know, Roger

had fallen madly in love with her.

What can I say? We spoke the
international language of love.

There was, however, the, er, small
matter of, er, my wife.

He told me that he'd met
this lovely actress.

Ancl so we looked at each other.
Oh, my God,

this is going to cause a lot
of trouble.

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 - you know,

they called the police -
and he's got hold of her

and he said, "Dorothy, your hand
is bleeding."

She said, "|t's my fucking heart
that's bleeding."

Always very dramatic, Dorothy,
you see.

June 1962.

I admit, in my personal life,
I was no saint.

Professionally, on the other hand...

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

Because Sean Connery wasn't
available.

The Saint was what I'd been
waiting for.

He would be the Roger Moore

I'd spent many years
and two marriages perfecting.

Come, darling. I want you to meet
the most fantastic man.

I've told you about him.

John, this is Simon Templar.

No swords, no sandals, no arm our.

Not even a toga.

Instead, it was a cool car, a stiff
drink and some sharp suits.

Monsieur Simon Templar.

He was the foundation for the rest
of my career -

Simon Templar, or, if you like,
Simon Template.

Simon Templar is a thief.

The modern Robin Hood.

We never show howl live,

where do I get my money from?

Ancl so he is a man with a past

which always makes a leading
man more interesting.

I was 11 years of age

and we used to draw the Saint on our
on our textbooks.

Er, 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.

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 '60s,
we looked even better in colour.

Oh, look, there's Steven Berkoff
playing a moustachioed henchman -

all in lovely duck-egg blue.

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 poncey,
even then.

I wanted to have hair
like Roger Moore.

I used to try and get my hair
to look like Roger's.

Good looks, humour and kindness.

We were starting with a scene
that was quite wordy.

The director calls "Right, action".

Mr Williams, I heard about
Owen Thomas.

And I do a part of our scene.

I saw the light of the search
party from the house.

Suddenly, he starts screaming.

"Cut! Cut! No, we'll have to do it
again!"

What?
ANGRY GIBBERISH

And I'm sort of like this, you know.

And I'm standing waiting
for the cue

and I feel a hand on my hand

and 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.

Thanks for rescuing me in there,
Mr, er... Templar. Simon Templar.

It was a pleasure.

That put him on the map.
That put him in all our hearts.

Once Roger found Roger in life,
Roger became Roger

and embellished Roger,

which is...which is a great talent
unto itself.

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.

You know, becoming
the hero of our own story.

The Saint was sold to over 60
countries around the world,

reaped more than £350 million
in profit...

NEWSREEL: Roger Moore's there to
make the presentation.

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

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 go on the top of
the slide and go,

"My daddy's famous!

"My daddy's the Saint!"

I'd say that Roger Moore
never had it so good.

What is the attraction
behind playing

in these long-running series?

Money.

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, er, dotted line

and give me a divorce cast a pretty
dark shadow over my success.

I always felt that she put him
where he was.

He wasn't anything before her
and he was after her.

She never got over him, ever.

Never got over him.

Look, this is when he loved
me, actually.

It became an obsession,
I suppose.

Sadly, Dot's efforts to hold on
to me became increasingly desperate.

Ancl this is the jacket.

It was really bad.

She did everything she could,
and she was determined -

"You're not going to get away from
me. No way."

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.

She got into the litigation.

Roger Moore and Luisa were at some
gala on TV,

and Kenneth More was the MC.

Now, Roger and Luisa Moore.

And he introduced them as
Mr and Mrs Moore.

"You said that was Mrs Moore.

"|'m Mrs Moore.
That's Luisa Mattioli."

"|t's not Mrs Moore."

So she sued him.

She sued everybody.

20 court cases.

That's how she lost a lot of money.

The 11th of April, 1969.

Finally, after nine long years,

Dot agreed to a divorce.

Right. Thank you.

Luisa and I were married
at Caxton Hall.

It was meant to be a small ceremony,
but 600 people came to watch.

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

We did lots of family pictures
and group pictures.

One of her favourite remarks
when we were all sitting there was,

"Oh, try to look pretty."

Luisa was enchanting.

She would ring me sometimes
and she'd go,

"Allo, I wanna speak a Nanetta,"

and I'd say, "Oh, hello, Luisa,"

and she'd say,
"How you know it's-a me?"

Ancl I'd say, "Because nobody else
speaks English like you, Luisa."

"How you know it's-a me?"

It was a restaurant called
The White Elephant

where everybody congregated.

Ancl this beautiful girl
comes in with the hot pants,

little velvet hot pants.

You know, even as a woman,

it was really extraordinary.

Ancl Luisa goes to Roger and slaps
him across the face.

He said, "What's that for?"

Ancl she said, she said...

'just-a 'm case.“

True story.

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.

Now that there are so many years
you are Simon Templar,

do you still like this man?

He's kept me in good clothes,

good food, good company.

Of course I like him.

Simon Templar had given me
confidence and class.

My south London upbringing
was by now a distant memory.

Oh, you stun us. You're so bright.

Y-y-your carriage awaits.

So, playing an English lord
in The Persuaders...

It's got a hat.

...wasn't too big a stretch.

Let me carry your train
for you, sir.

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

Your Dukeship...

I shared top billing with
Hollywood legend Tony Curtis,

who played Danny Wilde,

a Brooklyn kid made good.

CURTIS: Roger was perfect.

See, Roger had this attitude
of an English lord.

Lorcl Sinclair, you know?

He already was the Lord Sinclair
because he'd been in movies.

Handsome Englishman.

POSHLY: "Thank you very much."

The show was built around
beautiful women, fast cars,

and glamorous locations.

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,
"Well, we'll put you up in a hotel."

I thought, "Well, this is nice."

It's a hard life being an actor,
isn't it?

Why don't you switch that thing off?

I think I'll switch that thing off.

I was a photographer.

I was very bohemian,
somewhat avant-garde.

You may kiss me.

Kissing Roger was fine.

Kissing Tony was like
kissing an ashtray.

Goodbye. Mm!

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

Oh, sorry.

Mm, I like it, I like it.

It was The Persuaders that added

the final piece of the jigsaw
to my repertoire,

something that would become
my trademark.

Well, you must forgive him.

His early life was influenced rather
heavily by Rudolph Valentino.

A soupcon of tongue-in-cheek humour.

There's no need to kneel.
I'm a very democratic lord.

With Lord Brett Sinclair,

I had become an upper-class
gentleman.

Literally.

I'd 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, uh, out of one.

All I needed to make my life
complete

was to get back on the big screen.

PHONE RINGS

And then, one day,

the call I'd been waiting for...

PHONE IS PICKED UP
..finally came.

The three last digits were 007.

O07.

Ancl he answered the phone with
"007," cos that's what you do.

Ancl the voice said,
"That you are, Roger."

He must have played it down.
"Oh, great, that's wonderful."

"Luisa!"

We had a drink.
He said, "|'ve got some great news."

"I've got some great news."

HE IMITATES POP OF CORK AND POURING

"Cin-cin."

Everybody was thrilled,

and we toasted the new 007.

I said, "Can I be a Bond girl?"

Roger Moore is an amazing
man because he seems

to be a very humble, human guy
who lets it all sort of hang out.

LAUGHTER
You're talking about all of us.

No, I'm not.

He, uh, now, as you all know,
is the new James Bond,

and is going to be, if not already,

an enormous major
motion picture star.

CRASHING

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'd made a mess
of my underwear.

The speedboat incident did nothing
to calm the nerves.

Not mine,
and certainly not that of my bosses,

Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli.

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.

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.

Everyone was nervous about anyone
replacing "THE" Bond, who was Sean.

Connery just took the world
by storm.

Bond.

A Martini - shaken, not stirred.

And Roger had to pick up
that mantle.

Very demanding,

because Connery had made
such an indelible impression.

Sean had established the role

and was a diamond in the rough,

and Roger was a well-honed diamond.

He had this charm about him.

He had a casualness that
seemed to go with the times.

SOLITAIRE: Such a delicate touch.

Sheer magnetism, darling.

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 "mmf!",
like that,

so he definitely had a problem

and he was not looking Bond-like,
to go "mmf!" every time.

And then came the line that 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...

AS CONNERY:
"My name is Bond, James Bond,"

and I mustn't do that.

The first proper scene I remember
doing with him,

you know, the first time he said,
"|'m Bond, James Bond,"

I was terrified.

It was scary.

Oh.

EXHALES

All right.

What's my name?

The name's Bond.

James Bond.

My name's Bond.

James Bond.

Yeah, it's a big, big name to say.

"The weather turns
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...

‘II- I"

That's a compliment.

GLORIA LAUGHS

So here we are on the set.

This 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...

...| had a lot of garlic.

Oh, James.

EXHALES

He said, "You're lucky
my wife is Italian."

LAUGHS

This was one of the first
major films

that had an interracial
relationship.

It was quite a remarkable
thing for the time.

I couldn't believe my luck.

Glorious Gloria

and sensational Seymour.

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.

They just need a little bit
of information, that's all.

The eyebrow was the hugest issue.

Every time his eyebrow went up,
they went, "Cut!

"Roger, the eyebrow."

I've lost it.

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.

Ah, yes. My eyebrow.

Some say I built a career on it.

The very singular ability
to manipulate his left eyebrow.

The eyebrow would go...

BUZZES

That was... "How can he do
just the one eyebrow?"

That furry little fellow
seduced the world,

and so did I.

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.

What about the Bond reviews now?

Are you ready for that?

I tell you what, I think
the good critics in America

are the ones who liked it.

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.

But you see, they don't decide
who becomes a star.

The people decide who becomes
a star.

Oh, that's very different.

It's a good thing it's
the people who decide,

because the critics
were not impressed.

TRAILER: It's Live And Let Die.

Roger Moore is James Bond, 007.

Our box office, on the other hand,
was in rude health.

It's Live Ancl Let Die.

We were off to the races.

Ladies and gentlemen, Roger Moore.
APPLAUSE

The success of Live and Let Die
meant I was very much in demand

on the chat show circuit.

Roger Moore.
APPLAUSE

This was where the Roger Moore
character I'd built so carefully

could really shine.

You seem perfect.

LAUGHTER

Are you proposing or something?

No, nothing like that.

'N.

You just seem perfect.

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."

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... All over which place?

The entire globe.
ROGER LAUGHS

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.

Is this a monologue?

Oh...

The combination of his looks
and his personality

and his pleasantness and his humour,

and the fact that he liked me...

LAUGHTER

I'm trying to get to
the question, and I...

He's not reading it either.

How do you handle alL..alL..all
these women?

My wife looks after it for me.

She is, uh... She's Italian.

Your wife's Italian? Yeah.

Ah, then you have
no problem at all.

I have no problem whatsoever.

Ooh! It was hardly worth
that long question, was it?

He was very amusing.

Pleasing as a personality.

He was just the perfect
talk show guest.

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.

Is there anyone in England
that's got that kind of zany,

nutty, marvellous kind of humour?

No, no, not since I left.

LAUGHTER

Naughty sense of humour.

Really naughty.

He'd start telling a story
and everybody would go,

"Oh, Roger, stop it,
for God's sake!"

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."

When I kill,
I kill for queen and country.

When I kill, I kill
for queen and country.

When I kill,
I kill for queen and country,

though I admit killing
you would be a pleasure.

All right, 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 and 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.

Argh, you're hurting my arm!

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

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.

WHIMPERING

You see what you can do
when you try?

Where did you get the
reputation for being...

...such a male chauvinist pig?

MURMURS AND LAUGHTER

Somebody had that impression of you.

Through playing Bond.
I suppose that would be it.

I said, "Where?"

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

And I could see why.

This trailer is practically
an advert for male chauvinism.

TRAILER: James Bond on the job.

The girls are willing.

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.

The Man With The Golden Gun isn't
really a financial success,

so suddenly it's all starting
to look messy.

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?

It is always nice to get
a good notice.

You do like a good notice?

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.

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.

Have you ever forgiven the critic
who called you

a lump of English roast beef?

Yup. Can you find it in your heart?

Oh, sure I can.

I know where I'd like
to stick the mustard, too.

You're very self-deprecating
about your acting.

Is that defensive?

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

SH UTTER CLICKS

But if you didn't say it,
perhaps nobody else would.

I never thought of that.

Maybe I started the wrong way!

He was so self-deprecating
that people joined in.

But, actually, you know,
he was a very fine actor.

GUNSHOT

Why do you always put yourself down?

Well, I've stopped doing that.
You have?

No, I now say I'm marvellous.

You do?
LAUGHTER

That's all right.

What caused the change of heart?

The critics started believing me.

Yeah, he was modest.
He was maybe even shy.

You know, he was so handsome

that you forgot what a good
actor he was.

He was never enormously confident,

but he could give the impression
of being confident.

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."

Did you want me to go...?
I thought that I had to go down.

All right, one more. Straight away.

Let's go.

I'd wrestled with the question
of how to becomejames Bond

with limited success.

In the end, the answer
was so simple.

Stop trying to turn Roger Moore
into James Bond.

Turn James Bond into Roger Moore.

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Goodnight.

He knew how to play Roger Moore,
and that's a gift.

It's a real, real gift.

If there's anything you would like,
anything at all...

Well, I had lunch,

but I seem to have missed dessert.

He said, "I had my stride."
I always remember that.

"I had my stride with that."

It's just great entertainment.

It was shocking just how much fun
jaws and I had in this...

CLEARS HIS THROAT
..ELECTRIFYING scene.

The Spy Who Loved Me
couldn't be more different

to Live Ancl Let Die and
Man With The Golden Gun.

We're now in quite a
different world, in a way -

a world when you
can have an underwater base

and a world where you
can have a sports car

that turns into a submarine.

As you can see,

it is noisy and it is cold.

Ready? Action!

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.

People have to be willing
to have a joke.

Ancl then it is fun. As you said
before, an expert...

It's raining on this 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.

Ancl I love him in his naval outfit.

He looks incredible.

Your time's running out, Stromberg.

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
Curd jurgens - 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.

And he leapt in the air
with his backside on fire

and ran around the set.

Anyway, Roger had to have
Vaseline dressings for two weeks

and afterwards said, "I've got two
holes where most people have one."

It's the biggest...

Despite the damage to my
perfect posterior,

the marketing team
remained confident of my sex appeal.

We get that extra push. Yeah, yeah.

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...into the role

of whatever woman
he's making love to.

Can I have that trim, john?

Editor and second unit director
john Glen was hard at work

in the edit suite, cutting
the opening sequence.

It promised to be something

rather special.

I'll tell you what would help it -
if you were just a touch longer.

Yeah, OK.

I directed the pre-title sequence.

I found myself in Mount Asgard
on the Canadian Arctic.

Three weeks it took us to get
this shot.

This one shot.

It was Roger's favourite
action scene.

He just loved it.

Ancl he's falling and falling
and falling, and there's...

Ancl there's silence.

I remember watching that.

You know, it's one of the most
famous bits in cinema, isn't it?

Parachute opens - "doomf".

HUMS ALONG WITH JAMES BOND THEME

When that Union jack came up,

oh, boy, everyone goes bananas.

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

Standing ovation.

BROCCOLI:
The reaction was incredible.

A day I never thought I'd see.

But the reviews came in and,
would you believe it,

they were positive.

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 Spy Who Loved Me hadn't worked,

um, it would have been very,
very difficult, I think,

for the franchise.

There was Roger
coming down the mountain.

Of course he saved the franchise.

But, James, I need you.

So does England.

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...

CLEARS THROAT
..gadgets.

These time-shifting devices,

the portable VCR machine
and home movie camera.

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.

GAS PS

OK, more tapes.

All right. What's your name?

Christian Moore.

Christian Moore,
what a horror you are.

Ancl there is Geoffrey.

Geoffrey.

There's roughly 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.

Right, now we're going
to have impersonations.

Oh, hi.

What is it? Oh, R-R-Roger!

LAUGHS: Nice.

Oh!

Deborah.

Oh, Roger, come on.

Never wants to do
what people say.

If others are pushing you too far,

they will come to
realise you have...

Push you to fart?

Push you too far!

You could see more of the funny,
humorous side of him.

I trust I'm in focus, Luisa,

because I get very upset
if I'm not in focus.

Ah, mucking about.

Great memories.

There's a lot of South of France
home footage.

Geoffrey dug all this up, right?
PRODUCER: Yeah.

No, I haven't seen it.

The car does not want to work.

Come and look at it, please.

Please look at the car.

Stefanie Powers.

STEFANIE: Do you want to get
a close-up on that?

I'm moving in for a close-up.

Do you want to get a
close up on that?

Oh, Stefanie!

ROGER, ON TAPE:
Oh, and spin on it.

And just spin on that one!

THEY LAUGH

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.

Hi, darling.

OK, Valentino.

Portofino.

Olivia Newton-John.

Yeah, that's probably here.

We're here. We're really shy!

Yeah!

Kind of hit me
that we were surrounded by fame.

But for us, it was just...

They were just their friends.

It wasn't,
"Oh, he's famous, he's..."

You know what I mean?

Oh, there's my favourite
Bond girl, Maud Adams.

Are you filming?

And how's this for a shot straight
out of the Bond playbook?

Eat your heart out, Cubby Broccoli.

Go, Maud.

All his friends would come
around, and 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.

The chopper is arriving
in five minutes.

Ancl the chopper is arriving
in five minutes...

Oh. Is this Roger with his camera?

LAUGHS

LOUD WHIRRING

The noise! Oh, God.

I mean, to land on a
tennis court is really brave.

Who the hell is...?

Oh, oh, oh, oh...

This is Elton.

This is Elton arriving.

Extraordinary.

There's Joan.

Can I see...?
MAN: We love it.

Is this with sound?

With sound?
Of course it's got sound.

Roger never changed from
the time I met him.

He was always charming, funny,

full ofjoie de vivre,
telling jokes.

Now it's quite amazing,
the flora that you find

on the hills of Saint Paul.
I haven't got my costume with me.

The gorilla costume.

Oh, well.

It's just lovely to remember
that day.

You know, it's extraordinary.

OVERLAPPI NG CHATTER

Walking back in time.

Enough of that.

I haven't seen... This is, like,
super duper emotional.

LUISA BEHIND CAMERA:
Roger non dice niente.

Luisa, I'm waiting for you to say,
"You look beautiful."

I can't work until I'm told
I look lovely.

VIDEO CHATTER CONTINUES

And here we are,

at the boat in Valentino.

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, um...

Well, no, there is no but -
I just had a really good life.

Look at them.
Look at them, crumpets.

How much?

How much?

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.

Well, it's a very nice static
picture. You know, this...

Oh, this is not...
This is a moving picture.

You know, I see pictures of myself
always hiding behind my mother

or my father.

When I first realised
how famous he was,

because he came and picked me up
at the 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, son ofjames Bond

and I'd look like a doughnut.

I thought it would be better
to blend in.

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 there were some
tax benefits as well.

CLEARS THROAT

To the left here,
Peter Sellers' 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.

Andjulie Andrews' house
is where the train is,

is basically above those trees.

I mean, it's all very nonchalant
when you talk about these people,

but, you know, these are family,
family friends,

and they're all
in the make-believe world.

You know, they're getting
paid to make believe.

So they didn't take themselves
very seriously.

What is the great attraction,
do you think, for celebrities?

Do they come here
to get away from it all?

Well, we come up here because
there are no such things

as microphones
and television cameras.

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-

Despite my fabulous skiing exploits
on screen, I couldn't actually ski.

In my 50s, I decided to learn.

Thanks to my wonderful instructors,

I found swooping down the piste
to be fairly easy.

It was, uh, stopping
I had a problem with.

We meant to stop here.

And what happened?

Roger panics.

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,
and he flew through the terrace.

Kick a table, kick a table,
kick another.

And we ended up here like an ostrich

with a head plant on the table.

And then Roger stands up.

"Madam, a pleasure to make
your acquaintance."

Well, that was wonderful, Vi jay.

For six more years
and a further four films,

I played the part on and off screen.

Roger Moore, 007 for the
fifth time and fit as a fiddle.

How do you do it, dare I ask?

I play the fiddle.
INTERVIEWER LAUGHS

The trailer for my final Bond film

introduced Christopher Walken
as my enemy.

TRAILER:
This man has a secret ambition.

I propose to end the domination
of Silicon Valley.

In real life, we became great chums.

$100 million.

I was a big Bond fan,

so the idea of being a villain
was very attractive.

Max Zorin is a genetically
altered human being.

He drives a blimp, you know?

LAUGHS

You know, I...
Who do you know who...?

He drives it,
and he drives it himself.

You know, switches and...

"Pick you up in my blimp."

Action crews.

Physically, they're hard work.

You're in every scene,

and the schedule is usually
about six months.

And that means every day,
from the crack of dawn.

So they're long hours.

It was a long shoot.

We were about to break
for Christmas,

and he said to me on set one clay,

"What are you doing
for the holidays?"

Ancl I said, "Well, I guess I'm
just going to sit in my apartment."

Ancl he said, "Well, no, you'll
come to my house in Switzerland."

So I did.

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.

Chris.

Yeah, very much the same guy.

He had a nice life.

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.

He was getting too old.

Simple, you know.

I mean, he looked pretty good,
but he was sort of knocking 60,

and I think he was right
to quit when he did.

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

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.

I was exceedingly
grateful to Audrey

for having steered me
in the right direction.

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.

I'm 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.

Ancl it...

It appears rather heroic,

and it's not.

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.

She was quite tough, Luisa,

and she used to get very angry
with him a lot.

A lot.

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: 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.

When they were living in Gstaad,

I went to stay with them.

I said, "Where's the bedroom?"

Ancl Luisa said, "This is my room."

Ancl it was a big, lovely bedroom.

Ancl Roger said,
"Come and see mine."

Ancl so, under the stairs, there was
this little kind of cubby hole,

and he said,
"This is where I sleep."

Ancl I didn't want to ask
the obvious question,

"How's the marriage going?"

Uh, you know, I think it was
when he got slightly older,

you know, they sort of
drifted apart.

And that made my mother
very, very upset,

very dflgrY-

She could tell that something
wasn't right.

And I think by that point he'd,
you know,

already met, urn, Kristina.

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.

SIGHS

They just had spent
30 years together,

and I think it was time for him
to move on with his life

and be HAPPY-

My mother knew about it
when she opened the newspapers,

and there it was - the new woman
in Roger Moore's life.

Phone call 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."

Paparazzi would only come around
when there was, like, a scandal.

They were outside the flat.

Ancl I go to open the door, I open
the door and there's, like...

IMITATES PAPARAZZI CROSSTALK

It's out there before you know it.

Oh, I found out from, um,
co-workers.

It was in the papers,
and someone threw it down.

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.

Sir Roger Moore,

for services to charity.

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.

There we are.

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.

Spending the last few weeks
in hospital with him,

I had asked him if he was...

...if he was frightened
and he said no,

that he enjoyed every minute
of his life.

I don't think he found regret
in anything.

Doctor said, "|'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 that everything

was going to be all right, you know?

And...And it wasn't.

I just sat and talked to him
for a while.

Held his hand and stuff.

GEOFFREY: Slowly sunk in.

You know, I struggled
because we always had a phone call.

We always spoke every clay at 1 1 :00.

It took a while for me not
to press the button.

"It's 11:00, shit,
I've got to call Roger."

He's no longer here.

How will Roger Moore be remembered?

Well, I made over 60 movies
in my career,

but most people only
ever wanted to talk about seven.

When someone else became Bond,

I enjoyed a new kind of fame

as Roger Moore, national treasure.

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.

Why anybody would want this stuff
is beyond me.

But, oh, well, I'm glad they do.

Going once at 50,000.

At least some of this money
will go to charity.

You're brilliant bidder.
Thank you.

You're there, 55,000.

60 there. 60,000.

Sold - 60,000.

There we are.

It's my clad. 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.

Allow me to raise a glass,
and an eyebrow, one last time.

A toast to those who shared
the journey with me.

He never forgot me.

I never forgot him.

To those who made me what I was.

Before she died, the phone goes,

and it was Roger on the phone.

He said, "Take Dorothy's hand,
squeeze it

"and say Roger's thinking of her."

She smiled and she cited.

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

Oh, there, right down the cake hole.
There it goes.

ROGER SLURPS

I miss him.

I suppose that's what this is about.

A chance to tell him.
You know, I never saw him again.

Everyone will miss Roger,

but the memories of what he brought
us far outweighs that.

Roger was timeless.

All that is left is to send my love

to Doorn, Dot, Luisa and Kiki.

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?
Who wouldn't?

I'd have liked to have slept
with Roger Moore.

My mum would have liked to
have slept with Roger Moore.

We'd all like to have slept
with Roger Moore.

Yeah, Roger Moore.

What a guy.

A man becomes what he dreams.

He dreamt well.

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.

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