Roger Moore was my favorite bond. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxxbJhUA17U

Wasn't my favorite, that goes to Dalton if only for the living daylights. But I did enjoy his bond movies none the less.

Read the sad news a bit earlier. At least he lived a long, and quite fulfilling life.

I liked him better as Simon Templar than James Bond, but still enjoy his Bond films.


R.I.P.

Moore was the first screen 007 to go.
Not my favorite...he did the comic ,witty Bond fine, but never really nailed the tougher ,more ruthless side of Bond. and ,IMHO, during his tenure the series want way too far in the comic/silly direction, but he was fun to watch even when the film was not very good,and Two of his films "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "For Your Eyes Only" are in my top Ten Bond films list.

Moonraker has some good stuff, but I thought it was overlong,a lot of the comic setpieces did not work, and had a really weak last third. In the Cheesy but Fun Category Spy Who Loved Me is much better.
Moonraker carried the silly about as far as it could go...in fact too far...which is why they really dialed down the silly and over the top in "FOr Your Eyes Only" bringing Bond back to earth and taking a much more serious tone,IMHO very successfully, It is Moore's best Bond, with "Spy Who Loved Me"a close second.

Is a Scottish speaking Brit odd?

Anyway, as sad as his death is, he had a good run.

David Niven played him in Casino Royale. He died in 1983.

RIP :(

Are you implying that a large-scale laser battle in space is somehow too silly for a Bond movie?
Well, you're really not going to like my fan fiction novella, 007 vs. the Were-Succubus Time-Mummy from Dulcolax VIII.

I remember him fondly when watching the Bond movies in my childhood. If I would still like them today... I don't know. Anyway, rest in peace.

rest in peace mr. moore. i remember watching his bond movie for the first time, i tried not to read the subtitle once in a while as i was learning how to speak in EnggRish

A little bit of his lighter side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTUKJrlYUA

What does it say about me that the title immediately piqued my interest?

On topic: Such a shame to see him go. "The man with the golden gun" and "View to a kill" where some of my favorites Bond movies growing up.

That you are probably a MST3k fan (or should be)? =)

That would be the "Casino Royale" episode of an anthology series called Climax!. It was an hour-long production that starred Barry Nelson as American spy James "Jimmy" Bond (with Peter Lorre as his mark/adversary, Le Chiffre).
tinyE's right in this case, though: Nelson was the first actor to play Bond, but Niven beat him to the grave by almost a quarter century.

There had already been four Bond films released when Casino Royale (with cheese!) came out in '67, with the fifth official one premiering just two months after Casino.