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This program me contains some strong language.

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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