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Former James Bond actor Roger Moore dies aged 89: family
Reuters ^ | 05/23/2017 | Gareth Jones

Posted on 05/23/2017 6:41:54 AM PDT by Artemis Webb

British actor Roger Moore, who won international fame playing secret agent James Bond, died on Tuesday aged 89, his family said on the actor's official Twitter account.

They said he had died in Switzerland of cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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No, he wasn't as good a Bond as Connery. But I still liked him.
1 posted on 05/23/2017 6:41:54 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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2 posted on 05/23/2017 6:43:23 AM PDT by rdl6989
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Britain can use a 007 about now.


3 posted on 05/23/2017 6:46:09 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Maybe two of them...


4 posted on 05/23/2017 6:47:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Artemis Webb

He was one of my favorite Bonds and had some other good roles.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 6:47:51 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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If he had died a day or two earlier...wall to wall media coverage. With the Manchester Jihad...back page mentions.


6 posted on 05/23/2017 6:47:57 AM PDT by montag813
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Aw, no. I really liked Roger Moore; he was the second best James Bond.

Rest in Peace.


7 posted on 05/23/2017 6:48:58 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: montag813

Just like CS Lewis who died 11/22/1963


8 posted on 05/23/2017 6:49:19 AM PDT by cyclotic
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How ironic, and with him dies western civilization.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 6:49:53 AM PDT by infool7 (The ugly Truth is just a big lie.)
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To: Artemis Webb

An interview he gave did point out something..

Those bond films were successes. All of them. And his Bond (as well as Connery) weren’t fighting heros and action stars. It had a formula that wouldn’t work today.


10 posted on 05/23/2017 6:50:04 AM PDT by Celerity
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No, he wasn't as good a Bond as Connery. But I still liked him.

Moore was in "The Man With The Golden Gun", wasn't he? I mostly remember Britt Eklund in a bikini in that one. As you say, Moore was no Connery or Craig, but he did seem the epitome of what I thought an English gentleman should look like when I was a kid. RIP.
11 posted on 05/23/2017 6:50:28 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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No, he wasn't as good a Bond as Connery. But I still liked him.

I always thought he lacked the dangerous quality required of a good Bond. Moore was more fitted for Simon Templar than 007. One thing I really like him in was a one-season show he did with Tony Curtis called The Persuaders!, in which the two play wealthy adventurers in 1970's Europe with exotic locales and fast expensive cars.

12 posted on 05/23/2017 6:51:37 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Roger Moore in ffolkes . He likes cats!
13 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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There was no Bond but Connery!!!!


14 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:36 AM PDT by Bitsy
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I am shaken and stirred
RIP Mr Moore


15 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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RIP.


16 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:50 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Artemis Webb

There was no Bond but Connery!!!!


17 posted on 05/23/2017 6:53:03 AM PDT by Bitsy
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But first, he was “The Saint.”


18 posted on 05/23/2017 6:53:29 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Exactly, Simon Templar in The Saint and the Lord Brett Sinclair in the Persuaders were his best roles. But he kept the Bond saga alive and well for a quite a few years.

RIP


19 posted on 05/23/2017 6:59:00 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: VanDeKoik

Britain needs a hundred, all hunting the same evil.


20 posted on 05/23/2017 7:00:11 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
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