For Your Eyes Only. The locations, soundtrack, action sequences, storyline. It didn't rely heavily on gadgets and gimmicks and Roger Moore looked in great shape for it.
@@1who4me In my opinion he was as good as Bond, as Sean Connery. Moore had just a different interpretation and thats good, and important. Imagine, he would just try to ''imitate'' Sean Connery. That would be a catastrophy .. so the only option was: create a new interesting Bond, without breaking the character. And he did well.. Same did Pierce Brosnan. For me, all of those three created very good Bonds. These three are for me ''the best bonds'' , and i dont see a ''number one'' per se. Sean Connery did the same. He read the script, and build up an imagination to it ''how can i interprete this character, written in this script'' ...because you know: also Sean Connery ISNT Bond... Sean Connery also was ''only'' a good actor. And its the job of an good actor, to ''create'' a interpretation of a role, which hopefully is interesting; meaning: makes the audience interested in the character. Thats it. Sure, there are personal tastes.. Sean Connery was a cool Bond... Moore was a more funny Bond (it fitted, because he didnt crossed the line, to be a clown-bond) .. And Brosnan was a pragmatic Bond. All three of them, made believable and interesting Gentleman-Spies, just like Fleming wrote it. In my opinion.
@@PygmalionFaciebat My thoughts exactly. I grew up with Roger Moore as Bond and I have always liked his more suave and funny interpretation of the character. Brosnan was a combination of the best of Connery and the best of Moore IMHO, a bit tough, but also suave with his elegant looks and Remington Steele background.
If there ever was a male that was masculine, sophisticated, posh, elegant and down to earth at the same time, Sir Roger Moore was it. RIP 007. The world misses you.
I thought Moore was, by far, the least masculine of all the Bonds, even Lazenby. He was always able to keep clean (physically and emotionally) in every scene he was in, the antithesis of what Craig did with the role. I would almost call Moore effeminate, in fact. The very least acting of any Bond character, in my estimation. However, following in Connery's footsteps must have been hard, so kudos to him for that.
@BCJ He was from a working class family, his dad was a copper. He served in the army and was hard as nails under the "posh" outside. If you want to see a film with Roger as himself watch The Wild Geese where he goes toe to toe with Richard Burton and Richard Harris. His one liners are the best ever. When the suggestion oif surrendering is mentioned "I'd rather have Whitty treat my heamaroids"
@@darraghsheehy4455Roger Moore as Bond isn't light hearted. Watch the scene in The Spy Who Loved Me rooftop scene. Also watch the scene in Moonraker's rooftop scene too. Also watch For Your Eyes Only Locque's death scene. Roger Moore is definitely not light hearted tbh.
@@JamesMoore-un3cuDefine masculinity. There are accounts of Connery losing his temper with people on set, in public, with his wife. A bully isn't masculine. Moore acted with decorum. He treated people with kindness, generosity, humility and always with good humour and decency. These are traits of masculinity.
They say you can tell a great deal about a man from his eyes, Roger's eyes beamed with kindness, ease and a true essence of personable playfulness, a true gent and a constant source of masculine inspiration.
@James Henderson He also used to tell a story about exposing himself to a group of kids. Strangely , he went on to become an advisor in UNICEF.............( Father was a Copper too).
James Henderson that word is so overused basically to describe anyone you may disagree with or has a different point of view. I recently was called a racist because of my tag name which is hilarious because I’m biracial.
What I really enjoyed about Roger Moore’s portrayal was that he was a suave, smooth, cool bugs bunny. Everything was going to smoothly work out and you weren’t going to get pulled into intense drama. It was escapism; a fun jaunt around the world with a man so cool that absolutely nothing would go wrong. I know that Fleming’s character was much more akin to Timothy Dalton’s portrayal but this is the Bond who entertained me the most.
Agreed , he did bring the cool smooth classic charm into Bond , the lighter side of Bond . You think Bond you think " cool " 😎 And not just a killing machine
I like Brosnan for the same reason. Moore's Bond was in a pinch though when Chang had control of the centrifuge in Moonraker. He didn't look so smooth then.
Mind you, when Roger needed to be dramatic, it worked very well. His ability as an actor was very underrated, even by him, _especially_ by him in fact, Roger was too modest.
@@martinputt6421 I know Roger did 7 bond movies but 2 out of 7 of his were great. The other 5 of his bond movies had either two much comedy or he was looking too old for the part. His 2 great ones that I mentioned were his most serious and gritty roles.
@@jahno7154 Not true. I have seen Sean Connery in a few interviews and he was very funny. Even though Sean Connery was the best James Bond ever I do prefer to see Roger Moore in an interview.
@@SuperPrince1007 Yes your right Sean Connery was very entertaining in interviews a do apologize and I agree Connery is the best Bond but when i was a kid growing up i thought Moore's Bond was more entertaining than Sean along with all my friends at school he was very popular in the 70s and 80s. These days Roger Moore's Bond is looked on as a clown figure.
@@jahno7154 I'm glad to see that you saw the light & realized Sean Connery was the best James Bond. Roger moore was good but as you said he played it like a clown. A good interview I saw you should watch on You Tube is between Sean Connery & Jay Leno & Sean Connery & David Letterman. Sean Connery arrived on a Jet Pack & he got the biggest standing ovation from a David Letterman audience I ever saw.
@@TheBandit7613 I mean.. He didn't have much of an impediment. He just has an accent. It wasn't really until the later Connery films where his accent got heavier.
@@TheBandit7613 I mean.. He didn't have much of an impediment. He just has an accent. It wasn't really until the later Connery films where his accent got heavier.
I shed some tears when Roger Moore passed away. Such a classy gent. He managed to bring his Saint TV persona to the big screen and combine it with just enough of the Bond traits to keep the 007 series alive and popular into the 1980s. That's no mean feat!
@@randomnameindeed I so agree with you on the beer part. For me, it depends on my mood. If I want a light, charming, sexy bond I go with Roger Moore, A melancholic Bond I go for the last actor. (His name escapes me at the moment.) Oh, wait....Daniel Craig. Pierce...I cannot quite put my finger on except...charismatic, sexy, charming, sexy, attractive, 🔥 hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What I like about this interview is how relaxed they are in each other's company - there's no competition for laughs or egos - just a genuine rapport between Dick Cavett and Roger Moore.
It makes me happy to see so many comments singing Roger's praises - he made the world a better place with his charm, wit, charisma, sense of humour (so often self-deprecating), style and humanitarian work. And his Bond was the best by far! He made the character his own, giving him an irresistible lightness and irreverence that helped him, ahem, "roger more" Bond girls than any of the other JBs... (yeah yeah, I'll stop now...)
As a Scotsman and therefore raised to prefer Connery I wholeheartedly agree with your words. Moore was my Bond growing up and he always will be and a lot of that is to do with the wonderful man he was.
I respectfully disagree. Sean Connery will always be Bond. This is not a slight against Roger Moore, he was great as The Saint and wonderful in The Persuaders but Connery set the mold and Moore's Bond was much too slapstick and lacked the toughness.
Roger has always been my fave Bond (I like them all though to some degree). There's always been a misconception that Roger's Bond was all slapstick. Connery's Bond also cracked many a joke, and Roger had some brutal scenes, like making a guy fall off a building in "The Spy Who Loved Me" killing him, or kicking the car off the cliff in "For Your Eyes Only."
@eviltreemonster very polite very calm very happy to talk to normal people which i thought amazing at the time what a lovely man he was cant say anything bad about him if i tried proper gent he was
@@alricthered226 His "best" Bond performances were in the 70s. Some of those 80s Moore films (ahem...A View to a Kill) were pretty embarrassing, as he was FAR too old to play the part.
@@VideoAmericanStyle I don't know what that means. Bonds are not supposed to be realistic. They are supposed to be fun, and that's what they were with Roger Moore.
Roger Moore was a true gentleman on and off set he wasn’t snooty at all a real down to earth gentleman and the Bond I grew up on as a kid and the Saint series !! I miss him already :(
A lovely man who gave a lot of his time to UNICEF and other causes. My ex mother in law back in the 60s used to see him regularly in her village and he always had the time to chat to locals
Oozing class and style. "For Your Eyes Only" being the shining exception, Moore did not make my favorite Bond movies, but he is my favorite of the Bond actors, as a person.
@ capacitance-rca1981. Daniel Craig is all wrong for the role of James Bond because he doesn't look anything like what Bond is supposed to look like. Bond is supposed to have jet black hair not dirty blond hair. And facially, Craig doesn't look at all like what Bond should look like. Connery, Lazenby and Bob Holness (who played Bond on South African radio) look exactly like what James Bond should look like!
@@michaelbarlow6610 That was exactly the argument before Casino Royale was released. Fleming described Bond as looking a lot like Hoagy Carmichael, but with a scar on his cheek.
@@viralbuthow000 Yes it was, with some of the best sequences in the entire franchise, but it's not among my favorites. In fact, none of the "billionaire madman wants to wreak havoc" plots are in my list. EDIT: I take that back. I love Dr No, Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
@ capacitance-rca1981. The problem with Pierce Brosnan as Bond is that although his hair color was right for the role of Bond, his looks were smoothly handsome, whereas Bond is supposed to have rugged good looks like Connery, Lazenby and Holness.
@Boyd Speaking of his fellow 007, 86-year-old Connery told The Hollywood Reporter: "I was very sad to hear of Roger's passing. We had an unusually long relationship by Hollywood standards, that was filled with jokes and laughter, I will miss him."
Connery spent the rest of his life trying to get *away* from being solely associated with Bond, so no. Moore had a lot more humour about it, knowing full well how closely he was associated with the role, he made gags reflecting on it, called his autobiography "My word is my Bond," and spoofing himself in "The Cannonball Run." Still, if you listen to his commentary tracks on the Blu-rays, he clearly hasn't given it that much thought since he left. He admits that there is a lot that he just doesn't remember. Add to that that I've hardly ever seen them together at all, I'd say that they don't really have that much in common at all. They're both actors, and Bond is a role that they've both played. That's all, really.
I am an unabashed Roger Moore fan. He was great. Oozes class. Great sense of humor. Loved him as Simon Templar, in "The Persuaders," and as James Bond. Makes me feel sad for the rest, to coin a phrase...
@@keekwai2 it's not a "ciggy" as you so ineloquently put it and Sir Rodger was certainly not just "some Guy", rather he was enjoying a cigar - which anyone with but the most basic of elocution would understand that the smoker doesn't inhale the smoke but simply takes into the mouth to taste and then puffs out . . . you T O T AL T O O L
Id noticed that right away,he looked like he'd just walked off the set of that movie! By the way great Bond movie by the best actor that ever portrayed Bond!
@MetallicBlue1000 Ha ha, he has said that he always asked for the clothes: They were tailored for me; who else could wear them? He went on to say, with a wink, that they shrank in his closet after being on a hanger for a while. The best. Goodnight Roger, and thank you.
Wardrobe on these films would be custom-made for some of the informal wardrobe. This blouson probably was also. The suits and shirts were separately-tailored, Dougie Hayward etc. I guess one of the perks for the Bonds was to get the wardrobe after the films. Cary Grant was famous for that also in his films.
There’s so many amazing stories about Roger interacting with fans over the years. Everyone said he was a genuine nice guy. He appears in an episode of Car SOS - if you ever get chance look it up you should. Really good fun.
Like fellow 007 Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore never forgot or dismissed his background/beginnings when he got wealthy and did duties outside of acting in movies or TV (humanitarian and philanthropic et cetera) - nowadays it's celebrities who only look out for their self interests. The world misses them both!.
I've just started watching them now for first time in my life - I now totally love Roger Moore - as i watch interviews amazing how genuine real, unaffected, gracious, classy, well-spoken, intelligent and decent a man he was. He'll come back around.
On set he was apparently a directors nightmare because of him playing practical jokes and not taking himself seriously. By far my favourite Bond by no short measure.
Always a classy, good-humored guest, Moore was. Best interview was on The Tonight Show when he and Johnny Carson both inhaled helium and did the subsequent squeaky voices.
Wow two interesting legends talking to each other having intelligent conversation without cussing or sagging off and managing to be entertaining at the same time, I miss the old TV.
Back in 1979. I was just 6 and here in India (Bangalore), the movie Spy Who Loved Me released in Rex Theatre. Still remember the excitement when the shows opened. The house was full. My parents, my big brother and I waiting for the film to start. Boy, I can never forget that. That was my first ever Bond Film that I saw and I became an instant fan. Happy childhood memories and James Bond go hand in hand. Sean Connery and Roger Moore had a big role to play in that :)
The Sir Roger Moore Personal Collection went up for auction at the start of October and raised over £1 million. His son Geoffrey was interviewed on TV talking about some of the items and if you did not look at the TV OH how we was his father - it was the VOICE more than anything. I loved Roger as Bond but for his role as Brett Sinclair alongside Tony in The Persuaders Just pure escapism, glamour, sophistication, charm. I could go on 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️
Me too. Though I prefer Connery my formative James Bond movie years -- the 1970s and 80s -- was formed by Moore. Loved watching him in TV reruns of The Saint too.
I grew up watching Sean Connery as Bond, but those were growing more absurd as time went on. Campiness was in full bloom by the time Moore--whom I'd watched for years as Simon Templar, and loved him--I had had enough, and I found the movies too silly to enjoy. I was about twenty years old. And I never liked Bond movies much after that. I had cut them loose until Daniel Craig came along. He's now my favorite Bond, and I'm sure that whoever takes up the mantel next will follow in that vein. But until Craig, there just wasn't much to those movies. Bond did not keep pace with the sensibilities of the times, even in the cinema.
I know Sean Connery was a Great Bond … But I grew up Watching The Bond Movies with Roger Moore … So to me … he just totally Encompasses James Bond And a True Legend
Sir Roger was the Bond I grew up with. 1st movie we had on an old VHS player was Golden gun and Live let die. Looking back now, he’s near the bottom of my list of bonds. That said i still admire him
Through the magic of youtube, I get to actually watch this. I think I caught the end credits when this was originally broadcast, and that was disappointing. Not only is Roger Moore a great interview, especially in his heyday, but Dick Cavett always had genuinely interesting questions that produced real answers. Mr. Cavett and Tom Snyder are the only talk show hosts that really delved deep into a person of interest, resulting in something other than mundane answers. Thank you for posting this!
Playing the character that was protrayes by someone magnificently was a very difficult thing to do because audiences have sense of preconception and expectation to what it should be but Roger did it in a more romantic and manly way and made the world electrified again with his walther PPK.
It would have been something to watch all of Roger's Bond series on the big screen, good man. They should show all the Bond collection on the big screen again, that would have been awesome...
@Ronald Molina You're extremely lucky, great memories you must have had. I recently watched the whole Bond collection in summer and wished I got to see them all on the big screen, and even meet and greet Roger, he was and is still superb as Bond, good man. Nothing bad to say about this man.
What's your favourite Roger Moore James Bond movie?
Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only. The locations, soundtrack, action sequences, storyline. It didn't rely heavily on gadgets and gimmicks and Roger Moore looked in great shape for it.
The Spy Who Loved Me.
I like all the Roger Moore 007 movies. Actually I love all Bond movies, except the latest and Never Say Never Again
@@davehoward22 me too
Roger Moore was a total gentleman. Amazing person and a wonderful Bond in his own right. Rest In Peace Legend.
Seán Connery dead too since 31/10/20 RIP😭
He wasn’t a good Bond. But he’s a fine actor.
@@1who4me In my opinion he was as good as Bond, as Sean Connery. Moore had just a different interpretation and thats good, and important. Imagine, he would just try to ''imitate'' Sean Connery. That would be a catastrophy .. so the only option was: create a new interesting Bond, without breaking the character. And he did well.. Same did Pierce Brosnan. For me, all of those three created very good Bonds. These three are for me ''the best bonds'' , and i dont see a ''number one'' per se.
Sean Connery did the same. He read the script, and build up an imagination to it ''how can i interprete this character, written in this script'' ...because you know: also Sean Connery ISNT Bond... Sean Connery also was ''only'' a good actor. And its the job of an good actor, to ''create'' a interpretation of a role, which hopefully is interesting; meaning: makes the audience interested in the character. Thats it. Sure, there are personal tastes.. Sean Connery was a cool Bond... Moore was a more funny Bond (it fitted, because he didnt crossed the line, to be a clown-bond) .. And Brosnan was a pragmatic Bond. All three of them, made believable and interesting Gentleman-Spies, just like Fleming wrote it. In my opinion.
For some reason he reminds me a little of David Bowie. It might be the laid back attitude, the Britishness?
@@PygmalionFaciebat My thoughts exactly. I grew up with Roger Moore as Bond and I have always liked his more suave and funny interpretation of the character. Brosnan was a combination of the best of Connery and the best of Moore IMHO, a bit tough, but also suave with his elegant looks and Remington Steele background.
If there ever was a male that was masculine, sophisticated, posh, elegant and down to earth at the same time, Sir Roger Moore was it. RIP 007. The world misses you.
I thought Moore was, by far, the least masculine of all the Bonds, even Lazenby. He was always able to keep clean (physically and emotionally) in every scene he was in, the antithesis of what Craig did with the role. I would almost call Moore effeminate, in fact. The very least acting of any Bond character, in my estimation. However, following in Connery's footsteps must have been hard, so kudos to him for that.
@BCJ He was from a working class family, his dad was a copper. He served in the army and was hard as nails under the "posh" outside. If you want to see a film with Roger as himself watch The Wild Geese where he goes toe to toe with Richard Burton and Richard Harris. His one liners are the best ever. When the suggestion oif surrendering is mentioned "I'd rather have Whitty treat my heamaroids"
@@JamesMoore-un3cu I think of him
As the light hearted and fun bond
@@darraghsheehy4455Roger Moore as Bond isn't light hearted. Watch the scene in The Spy Who Loved Me rooftop scene. Also watch the scene in Moonraker's rooftop scene too. Also watch For Your Eyes Only Locque's death scene. Roger Moore is definitely not light hearted tbh.
@@JamesMoore-un3cuDefine masculinity. There are accounts of Connery losing his temper with people on set, in public, with his wife. A bully isn't masculine. Moore acted with decorum. He treated people with kindness, generosity, humility and always with good humour and decency. These are traits of masculinity.
They say you can tell a great deal about a man from his eyes, Roger's eyes beamed with kindness, ease and a true essence of personable playfulness, a true gent and a constant source of masculine inspiration.
James Henderson really? I didn’t know that can you elaborate
@James Henderson He also used to tell a story about exposing himself to a group of kids. Strangely , he went on to become an advisor in UNICEF.............( Father was a Copper too).
James Henderson that word is so overused basically to describe anyone you may disagree with or has a different point of view. I recently was called a racist because of my tag name which is hilarious because I’m biracial.
@James Henderson does that bother you, if you are not a sensitive snowflake it shouldn't do.
don't pay attention that James Henderson has been saying the same thing for years in all of Sir Roger Moore's videos
What I really enjoyed about Roger Moore’s portrayal was that he was a suave, smooth, cool bugs bunny. Everything was going to smoothly work out and you weren’t going to get pulled into intense drama. It was escapism; a fun jaunt around the world with a man so cool that absolutely nothing would go wrong. I know that Fleming’s character was much more akin to Timothy Dalton’s portrayal but this is the Bond who entertained me the most.
Agreed , he did bring the cool smooth classic charm into Bond , the lighter side of Bond . You think Bond you think " cool " 😎 And not just a killing machine
Spot on
Beyond a doubt my favorite Bond
I like Brosnan for the same reason. Moore's Bond was in a pinch though when Chang had control of the centrifuge in Moonraker. He didn't look so smooth then.
Mind you, when Roger needed to be dramatic, it worked very well. His ability as an actor was very underrated, even by him, _especially_ by him in fact, Roger was too modest.
Roger was the perfect 70s/80s bond. He had the swagger. No need to compare.
One 70s bond which was The Spy who loved me and one 80s bond which is For your eyes only. Rogers only 2 great bond movies.
@@jasonhilliard9489 He had more than that pal
@@martinputt6421 I know Roger did 7 bond movies but 2 out of 7 of his were great. The other 5 of his bond movies had either two much comedy or he was looking too old for the part. His 2 great ones that I mentioned were his most serious and gritty roles.
He had CLASS, something that all the other Bonds could have taken note of.
he was good until he was way too old. Which happened very fast. Great bond before that for sure.
Roger Moore is so much fun to interview. He's was an absolute gentlemen.
Yep the other Bonds are dick heads to interview
@@jahno7154 Not true. I have seen Sean Connery in a few interviews and he was very funny. Even though Sean Connery was the best James Bond ever I do prefer to see Roger Moore in an interview.
@@SuperPrince1007 Yes your right Sean Connery was very entertaining in interviews a do apologize and I agree Connery is the best Bond but when i was a kid growing up i thought Moore's Bond was more entertaining than Sean along with all my friends at school he was very popular in the 70s and 80s. These days Roger Moore's Bond is looked on as a clown figure.
@@jahno7154 I'm glad to see that you saw the light & realized Sean Connery was the best James Bond. Roger moore was good but as you said he played it like a clown. A good interview I saw you should watch on You Tube is between Sean Connery & Jay Leno & Sean Connery & David Letterman. Sean Connery arrived on a Jet Pack & he got the biggest standing ovation from a David Letterman audience I ever saw.
❤ Roger Moore, charming, good looking nice, etc etc
Roger Moore was always my favorite Bond. He really seems like a good guy. Never heard a bad word said about him. Connery is great too.
Roger Moore is my favorite too. Connery's speech impediment bothered me.
@@TheBandit7613 I mean.. He didn't have much of an impediment. He just has an accent.
It wasn't really until the later Connery films where his accent got heavier.
@@TheBandit7613 I mean.. He didn't have much of an impediment. He just has an accent.
It wasn't really until the later Connery films where his accent got heavier.
I love all of them, but Roger Moore was always my favorite.
Same for me
I shed some tears when Roger Moore passed away. Such a classy gent. He managed to bring his Saint TV persona to the big screen and combine it with just enough of the Bond traits to keep the 007 series alive and popular into the 1980s. That's no mean feat!
Roger Moore and Sean Connery are true legends, will never be forgotten.
I miss Roger Moore. I got very emotional when he died. Great man great actor and did soo much for charity, rest in peace Roger
Same 😭😭😭
Roger was a sweetheart and he touched you with his lovely smile and friendly manner. I miss him as do most people.
Whether he was the best Bond is debatable but he was the nicest actor to play the part. Total gent.
Agreed! I prefer Sean Connery as Bond, but I'd rather have a beer with Roger Moore.
Pierce Brosnan has always had an excellent reputation.
@@randomnameindeed I so agree with you on the beer part. For me, it depends on my mood. If I want a light, charming, sexy bond I go with Roger Moore, A melancholic Bond I go for the last actor. (His name escapes me at the moment.) Oh, wait....Daniel Craig. Pierce...I cannot quite put my finger on except...charismatic, sexy, charming, sexy, attractive, 🔥 hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@SandySaunders9142 Daniel Craig ? Sorry, but that's a big No from me.
I came to the conclusion that there was no BEST BOND. Rather just the right man for the particular decade.
What I like about this interview is how relaxed they are in each other's company - there's no competition for laughs or egos - just a genuine rapport between Dick Cavett and Roger Moore.
It makes me happy to see so many comments singing Roger's praises - he made the world a better place with his charm, wit, charisma, sense of humour (so often self-deprecating), style and humanitarian work. And his Bond was the best by far! He made the character his own, giving him an irresistible lightness and irreverence that helped him, ahem, "roger more" Bond girls than any of the other JBs... (yeah yeah, I'll stop now...)
As a Scotsman and therefore raised to prefer Connery I wholeheartedly agree with your words. Moore was my Bond growing up and he always will be and a lot of that is to do with the wonderful man he was.
I respectfully disagree. Sean Connery will always be Bond. This is not a slight against Roger Moore, he was great as The Saint and wonderful in The Persuaders but Connery set the mold and Moore's Bond was much too slapstick and lacked the toughness.
There is no best bond! There are only different versions.
Roger has always been my fave Bond (I like them all though to some degree). There's always been a misconception that Roger's Bond was all slapstick. Connery's Bond also cracked many a joke, and Roger had some brutal scenes, like making a guy fall off a building in "The Spy Who Loved Me" killing him, or kicking the car off the cliff in "For Your Eyes Only."
i met him once whilst doing a delivery to a tea house in a village in gloucester very nice man very friendly
@eviltreemonster very polite very calm very happy to talk to normal people which i thought amazing at the time what a lovely man he was cant say anything bad about him if i tried proper gent he was
The epitome of 1970s cool and swagger. It’s hard imagine someone other than Moore carrying the franchise during that campy, over the top decade.
This is from 1981 though :)
@@Janszler: True, but his performances were in the 70s.
@VideoAmericanStyle, Moore succeeded because he didn't try to be Sean Connery. Therefore the audience accepted him more quickly as the character.
@@alricthered226 His "best" Bond performances were in the 70s. Some of those 80s Moore films (ahem...A View to a Kill) were pretty embarrassing, as he was FAR too old to play the part.
@@VideoAmericanStyle I don't know what that means. Bonds are not supposed to be realistic. They are supposed to be fun, and that's what they were with Roger Moore.
Roger Moore was a true gentleman on and off set he wasn’t snooty at all a real down to earth gentleman and the Bond I grew up on as a kid and the Saint series !! I miss him already :(
A lovely man who gave a lot of his time to UNICEF and other causes. My ex mother in law back in the 60s used to see him regularly in her village and he always had the time to chat to locals
Oozing class and style. "For Your Eyes Only" being the shining exception, Moore did not make my favorite Bond movies, but he is my favorite of the Bond actors, as a person.
@ capacitance-rca1981. Daniel Craig is all wrong for the role of James Bond because he doesn't look anything like what Bond is supposed to look like. Bond is supposed to have jet black hair not dirty blond hair. And facially, Craig doesn't look at all like what Bond should look like. Connery, Lazenby and Bob Holness (who played Bond on South African radio) look exactly like what James Bond should look like!
@@michaelbarlow6610 That was exactly the argument before Casino Royale was released. Fleming described Bond as looking a lot like Hoagy Carmichael, but with a scar on his cheek.
The Spy Who Loved Me was very good.
@@viralbuthow000 Yes it was, with some of the best sequences in the entire franchise, but it's not among my favorites. In fact, none of the "billionaire madman wants to wreak havoc" plots are in my list.
EDIT: I take that back. I love Dr No, Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
@ capacitance-rca1981. The problem with Pierce Brosnan as Bond is that although his hair color was right for the role of Bond, his looks were smoothly handsome, whereas Bond is supposed to have rugged good looks like Connery, Lazenby and Holness.
I always loved how Roger Moore was able to laugh at him self. Some of his later films were just hillarious.
Marvelous interview. Roger was very personable and accessible.
He exuded great wit and charm. The perfect guest, I would imagine.
I’m sure Roger Moore and Sean Connery are drinking martinis shaken not stirred up in heaven rn
@Boyd Speaking of his fellow 007, 86-year-old Connery told The Hollywood Reporter: "I was very sad to hear of Roger's passing. We had an unusually long relationship by Hollywood standards, that was filled with jokes and laughter, I will miss him."
@Boyd certainly, more than to Daniel Craig
And ice bucket chilled Bollinger
Connery spent the rest of his life trying to get *away* from being solely associated with Bond, so no. Moore had a lot more humour about it, knowing full well how closely he was associated with the role, he made gags reflecting on it, called his autobiography "My word is my Bond," and spoofing himself in "The Cannonball Run." Still, if you listen to his commentary tracks on the Blu-rays, he clearly hasn't given it that much thought since he left. He admits that there is a lot that he just doesn't remember.
Add to that that I've hardly ever seen them together at all, I'd say that they don't really have that much in common at all. They're both actors, and Bond is a role that they've both played. That's all, really.
@@csabo1725 not sure .............................
Always looking for an angle to insert a gag, with his unique charm and 'savoir faire' . What a remarkable man! Thanks for the memories old boy
I am an unabashed Roger Moore fan. He was great. Oozes class. Great sense of humor. Loved him as Simon Templar, in "The Persuaders," and as James Bond. Makes me feel sad for the rest, to coin a phrase...
He was good in"The Saint" similar to Bond.
@Ronald Molina I like those film too. And the man with the golden gun.
Girl: - Welcome to California, Mr Bond.
Roger Moore (Bond) checking her out:- I like it already.
Truly, nobody does it better.
Had the pleasure of watching his last speaking tour just a few years before he died. Fantastic bloke. Thoroughly interesting and interested.
A class act. Delightfully self effacing for a star. When he spoke about his charity work, you genuinely believe it was to fill his own heart.
what the actual F. how cool to see a dude smoking, relaxing, talking.
wish we had those times back again
WTF is so "cool" about watching some guy smoke a ciggy, you total tool?
@@keekwai2 it's not a "ciggy" as you so ineloquently put it and Sir Rodger was certainly not just "some Guy", rather he was enjoying a cigar - which anyone with but the most basic of elocution would understand that the smoker doesn't inhale the smoke but simply takes into the mouth to taste and then puffs out . . . you T O T AL T O O L
@@keekwai2 can't say anything nice ?
You total obselleat Tool🤮
That gets you cancelled for toxic masculinity.
@@keekwai2 well, if u cant see that sir, then u r beyond saving.
A really cool thing I just noticed: the jacket Roger is wearing is the one he wore in 'For Your Eyes Only' during the 'drive in the country' sequence.
Yep
Roger is wearing the same jacket he wore in For Your Eyes Only.
Id noticed that right away,he looked like he'd just walked off the set of that movie! By the way great Bond movie by the best actor that ever portrayed Bond!
@MetallicBlue1000 Ha ha, he has said that he always asked for the clothes: They were tailored for me; who else could wear them? He went on to say, with a wink, that they shrank in his closet after being on a hanger for a while. The best. Goodnight Roger, and thank you.
Wardrobe on these films would be custom-made for some of the informal wardrobe. This blouson probably was also. The suits and shirts were separately-tailored, Dougie Hayward etc. I guess one of the perks for the Bonds was to get the wardrobe after the films. Cary Grant was famous for that also in his films.
He's here promoting For Your Eyes Only and he often took wardrobe with him after a production.
First thing I noticed
Class and charm oozing out of him
Rest in peace Sir Roger Moore. He was a perfect blend of humor and intelligence, a great gentleman he was. He is greatly missed!
What an absolute legend, a gentleman, generous...he is missed 👍🙂
There’s so many amazing stories about Roger interacting with fans over the years. Everyone said he was a genuine nice guy. He appears in an episode of Car SOS - if you ever get chance look it up you should. Really good fun.
Like fellow 007 Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore never forgot or dismissed his background/beginnings when he got wealthy and did duties outside of acting in movies or TV (humanitarian and philanthropic et cetera) - nowadays it's celebrities who only look out for their self interests.
The world misses them both!.
We in Europe know him also for his early role in Ivanhoe. We loved him so with Tony Curtis in the Persuaders.
I've been watching The Saint episodes after 50 years when I was 7..still love it,miss Roger Moore
I've just started watching them now for first time in my life - I now totally love Roger Moore - as i watch interviews amazing how genuine real, unaffected, gracious, classy, well-spoken, intelligent and decent a man he was. He'll come back around.
Roger Moore- absolutely stunning, talented and so funny. One of a kind. Rest in peace.
On set he was apparently a directors nightmare because of him playing practical jokes and not taking himself seriously. By far my favourite Bond by no short measure.
Always a classy, good-humored guest, Moore was. Best interview was on The Tonight Show when he and Johnny Carson both inhaled helium and did the subsequent squeaky voices.
I saw him in "The Man Who Haunted Himself" recently, which he made right before his first Bond film. Worth checking out.
Yoni A it’s a superb film, his best role.
Wild Geese is enjoyable
@@ovaisnaqvi1965 I think it's his best performance.
Moore said it was favourite role and his best film.
I saw it 40 years ago. I can't find it now.
@@ImYourHuckleberry_29 it’s on DVD.
Was a kid in the 70s. Loved this guy in the Saint, and as Bond.
Roger was a true gent and one of the nicest folks in the business. Definitely one of the best Bonds. He had his British charm.
Without a doubt, Moore was the perfect Bond for the laidback 70's.
What a Gentleman!!!!!! RIP
Wow two interesting legends talking to each other having intelligent conversation without cussing or sagging off and managing to be entertaining at the same time, I miss the old TV.
Best bond of all time
Back in 1979. I was just 6 and here in India (Bangalore), the movie Spy Who Loved Me released in Rex Theatre. Still remember the excitement when the shows opened. The house was full. My parents, my big brother and I waiting for the film to start. Boy, I can never forget that. That was my first ever Bond Film that I saw and I became an instant fan. Happy childhood memories and James Bond go hand in hand. Sean Connery and Roger Moore had a big role to play in that :)
The Sir Roger Moore Personal Collection went up for auction at the start of October and raised over £1 million.
His son Geoffrey was interviewed on TV talking about some of the items and if you did not look at the TV OH how we was his father - it was the VOICE more than anything.
I loved Roger as Bond but for his role as Brett Sinclair alongside Tony in The Persuaders
Just pure escapism, glamour, sophistication, charm. I could go on
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A likeable man, I always thought so anyway!
Moore may not have been the best Bond but he was the Bond I grew up with. More suave and glib than tough, but he was exceptional.
Me too. Though I prefer Connery my formative James Bond movie years -- the 1970s and 80s -- was formed by Moore. Loved watching him in TV reruns of The Saint too.
For me too :)
I grew up watching Sean Connery as Bond, but those were growing more absurd as time went on. Campiness was in full bloom by the time Moore--whom I'd watched for years as Simon Templar, and loved him--I had had enough, and I found the movies too silly to enjoy. I was about twenty years old. And I never liked Bond movies much after that. I had cut them loose until Daniel Craig came along. He's now my favorite Bond, and I'm sure that whoever takes up the mantel next will follow in that vein.
But until Craig, there just wasn't much to those movies. Bond did not keep pace with the sensibilities of the times, even in the cinema.
@1outlawz Brosnan was a great bond too, very underrated.
@@kamuelalee I became a fan of his from the UK TV Series of 1958-59 called Ivanhoe!
What a lovely man.
He had the most gorgeous male voice of any actor on the planet since the beginning of cinema.
Never heard Richard Burton, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Anthony Hopkins, and a host of others, then ?
Moore was the perfect Bond for the 1970's.
What a fantastic actor, man and obviously fantastic James bond. What a lovely man.
what an unbelievable class act. RIP Sir Roger
BEST BOND for me. No.1! What A Charisma! I love his funnier performance! No disadvantage, it’s great. Mosty symphatic, as long, as i can tell...
I know Sean Connery was a Great Bond … But I grew up Watching The Bond Movies with Roger Moore … So to me … he just totally Encompasses James Bond And a True Legend
Did they make a bet backstage of who would have the most buttons undone
the shirt collars was huge back then, I suppose that's why it was a trend to keep the buttons undone
I've always said it's best not to use any of the buttons at all, and simply tuck the shirt in unbuttoned.
A man never should feel obliged to cover his chest.
@@jimbeam4736 Women too
😁😁 This made me laugh!
He was a great bond, even in the shadow of the mighty Connery he shined.
I grew up in the 70's and 80s and saw every Roger Moore Bond movie, so yeah he is the best Bond.
He was always my favourite Bond. He had a charm and sophistication about him that was appealing
Forever my favorite Bond! RIP Sir Roger 🙏⭐️
He was my favorite Bond, and certainly a ‘Saint’ with no equal! Will always miss him.....
Such a charming gentleman. RIP Sir Roger Moore
Roger Moore is the best Bond for me. He was suavity itself.
I loved Roger in bond because he never took it seriously, thats why it's so good !
Roger Moore is smart at talking and making people understand things or him. He is not a dummy !
Yes a legend you can't reeplace he was almost part of my life.god be with you.
Roger is my favorite Bond. Hands down.
In my view, Roger Moore was the best bond there will ever be. Never serious but still always heroic. No Serial Killer.
I LOVE HIS VOICE AND HIS EPIC LINES AND IN TENSE SCENES HIS HUMER OUSTSTANDING
Pure class!
The epitome of suave and class
The 70's ... the oil crisis and the great button shortage of 1977.
Wow - had to chuckle 3 times in a row ...
Sir Roger was the Bond I grew up with. 1st movie we had on an old VHS player was Golden gun and Live let die. Looking back now, he’s near the bottom of my list of bonds. That said i still admire him
I have more than a clue. Perhaps you have a different opinion. Doesn’t make it right.
Through the magic of youtube, I get to actually watch this. I think I caught the end credits when this was originally broadcast, and that was disappointing. Not only is Roger Moore a great interview, especially in his heyday, but Dick Cavett always had genuinely interesting questions that produced real answers. Mr. Cavett and Tom Snyder are the only talk show hosts that really delved deep into a person of interest, resulting in something other than mundane answers. Thank you for posting this!
I think Dick was on PBS by this time. Both him and Roger look pretty good on 1981.
Saudades eternas desse grande ator .
I watched re runs of the Saint growing up in the 70's. I miss that show. I also love him as James Bond. He and Sean Connery are the best bonds to me.
Playing the character that was protrayes by someone magnificently was a very difficult thing to do because audiences have sense of preconception and expectation to what it should be but Roger did it in a more romantic and manly way and made the world electrified again with his walther PPK.
It would have been something to watch all of Roger's Bond series on the big screen, good man. They should show all the Bond collection on the big screen again, that would have been awesome...
@Ronald Molina You're extremely lucky, great memories you must have had. I recently watched the whole Bond collection in summer and wished I got to see them all on the big screen, and even meet and greet Roger, he was and is still superb as Bond, good man. Nothing bad to say about this man.
Roger Moore is also my favorite Bond and he was quite a humanitarian.
Also he was a pretty fair artist as well.
May he Rest In Peace
Rest In Peace Roger Moore and Sean Connery.
If only there is peace for freemasons.. 🤔
My name is Bond...Brook Bond...LOL he was so funny just right there:)
A GLITTERING Career was achieved...Lived Life to The full.
He may not have been the most serious of the Bonds but he certainly was the most charming and funny of them.
DC: So Roger, how did you adapt Sean's James Bond!?
RM: Have you heard of Simon Templar?
One of the biggest regrets in my life was not meeting Sir Roger Moore. He was a class act.
I now have even more respect for Ian Flemming than I used to.
This was aired three days after the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Clash of the Titans.
Nice to see he had a lighthearted side
Moore is wonderful. My fav Bond, especially for your eyes only.
You American's are lucky to have had a host of Cavett's calibre, an intelligent, charming interviewer
He's one classy bloke for sure.
Good looking dude. He was my bond when growing up.
With his voice and his look I bet he got more girls than even he did as Bond in the movies.
Roger Moore....one of the best guys ever..!!!
Roger Moore was brilliant he later became an Ambassador for UNICEF what a nice chap
Read his book, "One Lucky Bastard," last year. Hilarious!
"Shout at the Devil", fabulous movie he co-stared with Lee Marvin, a must see if you like Moore.