#Fact1Has named the lowbrow sitcom Married with Children (1987) as a guilty pleasure, and was a friend of star Katey Sagal's father, director Boris Sagal.2Son born in 1973.3In an episode of The Persuaders! (1971), a stolen briefcase is opened to find the contents of the original case have been substituted with 10 James Bond novels. Three of the visible titles are Bond movies that Roger Moore would later portray the famous spy. Live and Let Die (1973), For Your Eyes Only (1981) Octopussy (1983).4He was offered the role of Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks in A Bridge Too Far (1977) but he was forced to decline due to a scheduling conflict with The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He became available when the shooting of the Bond film was delayed. However, Horrocks had approval over the casting and turned Moore down. The role instead went to Edward Fox. Coincidentally, Moore's Bond predecessor Sean Connery played Major General R.E. Urquhart in A Bridge Too Far (1977).5He has a number of favourites from his own era in the James Bond franchise. His favourite gadget is the magnetic watch from Live and Let Die (1973). His favourite villain is Christopher Lee's Francisco Scaramanga from The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). His favourite girl is Barbara Bach's Anya Amasova from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). His favourite henchman was Richard Kiel's Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). He has stated more or less that anything from A View to a Kill (1985) is his least favourite.6Received an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Hertfordshire on November 21, 2012.7Wore a small hairpiece in all his Bond films.8Visited Iceland for a UNICEF program to help educate children in Africa. [November 2005]9The only James Bond actor to be older than the man he replaced in the series, being three years older than Sean Connery.10Divides his time between his homes in Monaco (summer) and Switzerland (winter) (2010).11Mentioned in the song "You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse.12He was the only actor to have played both James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.13Moore was conscripted into National Service after World War II and did not serve during the war. He eventually became a Captain.14Lived with Luisa Mattoili from 1961 before marrying her in 1968 during which time they had the first two of their three children.15He was the final guest ever on The Muppet Show (1976).16In 2005, Germany awarded Moore the Federal Cross of Merit.17He had his first child Deborah Moore at age 36.18A huge fan of Rudyard Kipling, Moore was invited to the Nobel Museum in 2007 and gave a 90 minute lecture on Kipling.19His stepdaughter's boyfriend Janus Friis invented Skype.20Has a pacemaker just like his father.21He and his wife Christina 'Kiki' Tholstrup love the theatre.22Owes much of his success to Lew Grade.23Made a captain in the police by the captain of the Maine state police force. He retains the power to arrest.24In 1986, Moore was named the New York Friars Club's Man of the Year.25Remained close friends with Albert R. Broccoli right up until Broccoli's death.26By 1985, Moore owned three different houses.27Admits to being a hypochondriac and suffers from vertigo.28When Moore had to take Marlon Brando's Oscar home with him, people outside the ceremony thought Moore had won instead. The Academy sent cars around to his house the next morning to retrieve it.29He was awarded Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French culture minister Christine Albanel in 2008.30Moore and his agent accepted each Bond movie on a film to film basis, instead of signing on for several.31Moved the family to Geneva when he refused to pay inflated British taxes. Curd Jürgens, who played the Bond villain Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) had become a good friend of his and loaned Moore his chalet until the family found a new home.32Roger Moore's fear of firearms stems from a childhood incident when his brother shot him in the leg with an air rifle by accident when he was age 14.33Never had to audition for the role of Simon Templar on The Saint (1962).34Denies being approached for the role of James Bond from the very beginning.35Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Patrick Troughton: Ivanhoe (1958), The Saint (1962) and The Persuaders! (1971).36Adores the comedy of Dawn French and Billy Connolly, to name a few.37Makes no secret of the fact that he loves the old basic British snack of baked beans on toast.38In 1954, he signed a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. However, he was released from this contract after only two years following the massive critical and commercial failure of Diane (1956).39Confirmed in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph magazine that he's completely retired from acting. [April 2009]40His popularity as Bond led to him starring in several movies during the 1970s and early 1980s. However, although some were financially successful, most received poor reviews.41Has said he would like to play a villain in a Bond movie starring Daniel Craig, but accepts that can never happen.42Confessed in a television interview that when he first traveled to the United States in the 1950s, he landed a supporting role in the Broadway production of "A Pin to See the Peepshow", a show that both began and ended on the same day (September 17, 1953).43He was a close friend and admirer of the right-wing writer William F. Buckley.44He considered himself to be miscast in Escape to Athena (1979) and ffolkes (1980).45His least favourite of his films is The Quest (1996).46He has always been very honest about the fact that he did not perform any of his own stunts as Bond, unlike Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig.47He had intended to act in A Bridge Too Far (1977), but was forced to pull out after production on The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was delayed by a year.48While a struggling young actor in the early 1950s, he briefly worked as a truck driver. Many years later, he impressed the crew on the set of A View to a Kill (1985) with his truck driving skills.49In 1964, eight years before he took over the movie role, Moore played James Bond in a hilarious sketch on the BBC comedy show, Mainly Millicent: Episode dated 17 July 1964 (1964). In the sketch, Bond is on holiday at a resort, when he encounters a female Russian spy (played by Millicent Martin, the star of the show), who is also on holiday. Bond and the female spy spend the sketch trying to do each other in. The sketch is included in the "Live and Let Die" Ultimate Edition DVD.50Prior to the release of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moore filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife Dorothy Squires to prevent her from publishing a book about their life together. She would eventually be declared bankrupt in 1986.51In March 1996, when his former wife Dorothy Squires underwent surgery for bladder cancer at the BUPA Hospital in Cardiff, he picked up the £6,000 bill. He did not attend her funeral two years later, but instead sent a bouquet of purple tulips, lilies of the valley and orange flowers with a card saying: "I've said it with flowers. Roger.".52He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 11, 2007 (three days before his 80th birthday).53The Living Daylights (1987) was originally written for him, but the script was changed slightly to suit Timothy Dalton after Moore announced his retirement from the role.54While filming the interrogation scene opposite Richard Burton and Richard Harris in The Wild Geese (1978), Moore made the unheard of request to have a cut in his lines. After another take he suggested all his lines should be cut. When the director Andrew V. McLaglen asked him why, he replied, "Do you seriously think I want to act against these guys? I'll just sit here and puff on my cigar.".55Used to own a house in Eaton Square in London, but was only allowed to spend a maximum of ninety days a year there for tax reasons.56Although critics often accused him of not looking tough enough to play superspy James Bond, he once beat up legendary American hellraiser Lee Marvin while they were filming Shout at the Devil (1976). Marvin recalled, "The guy is built like granite. Nobody will ever underestimate him again.".57Hates being wet when acting. In Moonraker (1979), he had to do a whole scene wet, in the "Mayan pyramid".58Future EastEnders (1985) star Mike Reid worked as his underwater stunt double in The Saint (1962), but was fired after making fun of Moore's thinning hair.59Although Moore claimed to have quit smoking cigarettes while filming The Persuaders! (1971), a filmed interview from on the set of For Your Eyes Only (1981) shows him smoking a cigarette.60Close friends with David Niven, Tommy Cooper, Dudley Moore and Sir Elton John.61Intended For Your Eyes Only (1981) to be his final Bond movie, since he was nearly age 54.62Ironically, for an actor who has played a weapons-wielding James Bond in no fewer than seven movies, Moore suffers from hoplophobia (fear of firearms).63Quit smoking cigars after undergoing major surgery for prostate cancer when he was age 65.64He was close friends and neighbours with the late Sir Peter Ustinov.65Attended the funeral of Sir John Mills in Denham, Buckinghamshire on April 27, 2005.66Has named The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as his favorite Bond movie of the seven he starred in, and A View to a Kill (1985) as his least favorite.67Underwent three operations to remove kidney stones in his thirties.68Nearly died from double pneumonia when he was five.69When presenting the Best Actor Oscar awards at the The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973), Moore ended up taking home the Oscar accidentally. The winner of the award, Marlon Brando, refused the award, and Sacheen Littlefeather, who Brando sent to make a speech to refuse the Oscar, also publicly refused to take the statuette from Moore.70All the scenes in which showed Moore running in his seven Bond movies were performed by doubles, since the actor felt he looked awkward running.71Following the suggestion that fugitive train robber Ronald Biggs make a cameo appearance in the Brazil episode of Moonraker (1979), he replied in rather colorful terms that he did not want the escaped prisoner anywhere near the film, as his own father had been a London Policeman.72He never drove the most famous of all James Bond cars in a Bond film i.e. a 1964 silver birch Aston Martin DB5 or any other Aston Martin model. The DB5 was made famous by the Sean Connery James Bond movies Goldfinger (1964) and then Thunderball (1965) with later models appearing in some subsequent Bond pictures. However, Moore, who played James Bond seven times, has only ever been seen on screen with this make once and that was in The Cannonball Run (1981) where he self-parodies his James Bond persona. In this movie, the DB5's license plate number was 6633PP.73Has played James Bond in seven movies of the official EON series, the most of any actor to date (Sean Connery also played Bond in seven films, but one of them, Never Say Never Again (1983), was unofficial).74Rides in or drives a motor-powered boat in every James Bond movie he has appeared in.75Chose a Swedish conference on child abuse to announce to the world that he too was a victim. He said he was molested as a child, but not seriously. He waited until he was age 16 to tell his mother because he said he was "ashamed".76Publicly supported the Conservative Party in the 2001 General Election.77Took part in a special celebrity edition of Blind Date on The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live (2006). He and actor Richard E. Grant lost to The X Factor (2004)'s Chico Slimani, who got to date Dame Edna Everage (aka Barry Humphries).78Officially announced his retirement from playing James Bond on December 3, 1985, as it was agreed by all involved in the franchise that Moore had got too old for the role by that point. Moore himself was quoted as saying that he felt embarrassed to be seen performing love scenes with beautiful actresses who were young enough to be his daughters.79Both he and his daughter, Deborah Moore, have acted in the James Bond franchise. She played the air hostess in Die Another Day (2002).80Quit smoking cigarettes in 1971 following a stern lecture from Tony Curtis on the set of The Persuaders! (1971).81Detests doing scenes that involve him shooting firearms - which caused him to ruin countless 007 takes.82Often spends summers in Hornbæk, Denmark, where his wife Christina 'Kiki' Tholstrup has a summer house.83Was cast in two roles that were originally offered to Patrick McGoohan: Simon Templar in The Saint (1962) and James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973).84Speaks Italian perfectly, former wife Luisa Mattioli is an Italian citizen.85Underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1993.86Attended the wedding of Joan Collins and Percy Gibson.87He was born in the same Labour Ward in London as the actor Brian Weske, five years previously.88A close friend of the Danish Royal Family, especially the Grevinde Alexandra, attended the Christening of Princess Alexandra and Prins Joachim's youngest son, Felix. Attended the wedding of the Danish Kronprins Frederik and Kronprinsesse Mary on May 14, 2004.89He was older than any other actor to play James Bond when he portrayed him age 57 in A View to a Kill (1985). Sean Connery was age 52 when he last played Bond in Never Say Never Again (1983).90Ironically for his first Razzie nomination (Worst Supporting Actor in Spice World (1997)), he went head to head with another former Bond, Sean Connery in The Avengers (1998), also receiving his first Razzie nomination. However, neither man won.91Was best man at friends Bryan Forbes and Nanette Newman's wedding92On May 7, 2003, he collapsed during a matinee performance of the Broadway comedy "The Play What I Wrote", but finished the show after a 10-minute break. Roger was playing the role of the mystery guest star, which the cameo role is filled by celebrities, when he fainted toward the end of the second act. He was taken to the hospital after the show. The next day, he was fitted with a pacemaker - something he had been previously told he would eventually have to get.93On May 21, 1964, he was Air France's 8,000,000th passenger.94He was the oldest person to debut as James Bond. He was age 45 when Live and Let Die (1973) was filmed.95Despite playing James Bond in seven Bond films, he never ordered a vodka martini shaken not stirred.96In 1954, he was offered contracts with the Royal Shakespeare Company or MGM. Noël Coward advised him to go for the money.97Resides in Switzerland and Monte Carlo with his wife Christina 'Kiki' Tholstrup (2002).98His contract for the 007 films provided him with an unlimited supply of Montecristo cigars during filming. The bill for this typically ran to thousands of pounds.99Received an honorary degree from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1999).100In 1990, he participated as a guest host in "33 Zecchino d'Oro".101On January 13, 2001, Roger and his then companion, Christina 'Kiki' Tholstrup, escaped injury when another vehicle collided with the actor's car. Airbags were attributed to preventing injury. They married the next year.102Good friends with Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond movies. They first met in mid 1940s at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where they were in the same class in 1944.103In just a few days after he had arrived in the United States in 1952, he appeared in the television play World by the Tail (1953).104Whilst doing National Service, Moore served with Military Intelligence.105His father, George Alfred Moore, was a policeman.106Received an International Humanitarian Award from the London Variety Club for his charity work. [May 2000]107Was scheduled to make his musical theatre debut as Sir George in "Aspects of Love" in 1990. He left the production days before his escape clause expired due to his own concerns over his singing ability. He was replaced by Kevin Colson.108He was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on December 31, 1998 in the New Year Honours list for services to UNICEF and on June 14, 2003, in the Queen's Birthdays honours, was promoted to Knight Commander of the same order his services to the charities UNICEF and Kiwanis International.109Father of Geoffrey Moore, Christian Moore and Deborah Moore.110He succeeded Audrey Hepburn as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.111During the early stages of his career, Roger collected towels from the hotels he stayed in. However, he stopped when a British newspaper printed a story entitled "Roger Moore is a towel thief". He revealed on So Graham Norton (1998) that he still has the collection in his Swiss home.