The Englishman also was debonair as Simon Templar on the British TV series 'The Saint.' “I would have loved to have played a real baddie,” he once said.
Roger Moore, the handsome Londoner who portrayed James Bond in seven films with a cartoonish, cheeky charm and probably for a bit too long, has died. He was 89.
A message from his children, shared Tuesday on the actor's official Twitter account, read, "It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer."
Before Bond, Moore made his reputation as a suave leading man on the television series Maverick, The Saint and The Persuaders.
I thought Roger Moore was great as The Saint, and expected him to be that same type of character as Bond ... I didn't really like him as James Bond
that said, RIP Roger
