Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took over the role of Bond from Sean Connery in 1972, made his first appearance as 007 in "Live and Let Die" (1973), and went on to portray the spy in six more films until his retirement from the role in 1985. Appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991, Moore was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for
Roger Moore turned crooked camp commandant, asked to guard Greek antiquities desired by the Third Reich, and also guard the collection of archaeologists who are being forced to work to find and recover these objects, but he has other plans for the treasure he guards and for the people under his watch. With the success of his fourth outing as Bond, "Moonraker" (1979), Moore followed it with an action film "North Sea Hijack" (1980) where Moore played a very un-Bond-like hero, opposite Anthony Perkins. The film was a box office disappointment. Better received was "The Sea Wolves" (1980), another World War Two