Roger Moore experienced bombing raids

[@r.zachhowell1009]

“Just get a little warm, you know…”
British understatement at its finest.

[@motorcyclemadness6006]

Very nice man who never took himself too seriously..

[@mark39ful]

Yeah, not like that flag you got take it too seriously

[@saeedhussain4646]

@@mark39fulit’s the native flag of ethnic groups in Peru. Are you actually that dumb.

[@Fredric_of_Canterbury]

@@mark39fulcalm down little guy

[@diahimeros1665]

​@@mark39ful Calm down you're sounding senile

[@MikeBrin96]

Spaz ​@@mark39ful

[@comeconcon569]

Roger Moore's English sounded so perfect.

[@daviru02]

I honestly think his demeanor is the best 007 even though I love Sean Connery

[@uremawifenowdave]

The Anderson Shelter named after its inventor, Sir Percival Shelter.

[@Tango0359]

I always thought it was designed by Sir Anderson Shelter

[@barrybarnes96]

See, now that's funny.

[@Mainsail1975au]

That was a good laugh, thanks.

[@YouTube_still_sucks]

You people 🤦

[@davidec.4021]

Lmaoo

[@nancydemoss2945]

He had a wonderful voice.

[@markheywood8236]

Look at how smart and well spoken... and what real life experience our stars used to have.
Look what we have now.

[@3dsmaxrocks699]

Yea. ..like Cardi B and Glorilla🙄

[@winterbas8927]

Megan theeeeee stallion

[@Truth_Hurts528]

You have diversity though. Which is ultimately all that matters we're told.

[@namesake-uv8ug]

​@Truth_Hurts528 which is why we're in decline .

[@patricky101]

Wow the most pathetic culture war handbrake turn ever. I'd back Cardi B to have the stones not to drop the whistle.

[@frankabagnale7279]

A gentleman and a legend . I was a 17 year old waiter in a very well established restaurant in the UK and had the pleasure to serve him a few times. I am now nearly 50 years old and remember him well.

[@simonlhill-si4sx]

I live in Wrexham, north wales and he owned a restaurant not far from the town in nearby Denbighshire, legend and true old school class.

[@philmckenna5709]

Did he have a family connection to Denbighshire?

[@simonlhill-si4sx]

@@philmckenna5709 very possible mate I’m
Not sure, it was in Llandegla, pub was called the plough and was quite well known for game, it’s a wedding venue now, I thought he might have been attracted because of the shooting up here?

[@simonlhill-si4sx]

@@philmckenna5709 just done some
Digging and his manager was from Wrexham

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

He was a brilliant "James Bond". He added a bit of sophistication and humour to the part.

[@markuhler2664]

Love the self depreciation - 'I dropped the whistle. We lost 45 men that day '

[@antispindr8613]

So that is how many dead people it takes to make a lame 'joke'. Trust that the story was for comic effect?

[@soilentgreen7]

​@@antispindr8613obviously, but it's clear that you don't know comedy

[@inisipisTV]

​@antispindr8613 - That's how soldiers and people who've gone through wars, seeing death and destruction every day. Making light of it and joking around is the most common way to cope with the terror, or else you'll end up going crazy.
Reminds me of some self-righteous person criticising Mel Brooks when he did the Producer with the song "Spingtime for Hitler", not realising Mel Brooks fought in Europe during WW2 and seen first hand the Concentration camps.

[@johnmortell3087]

@@antispindr8613 I guess you didn't hear the "ba dum bum" at the end. It's obviously a joke.

[@bjrnhalfhand2258]

​@@antispindr8613you might be a bit delicate for the outside world dear.

[@gregorymiseyko5035]

Roger Moore a great 007. “Bombed, James Bombed”

[@debbiesims138]

He was the only Bond I ever watched.

[@markywellsboy2182]

You wiin the Internet with that comment 😂😂

[@StephenButlerOne]

This was my era JB. The best one, before JB got too serious

[@DaleGribbletheCat]

​@@StephenButlerOne Roger was the best Bond

[@StephenButlerOne]

@@DaleGribbletheCat yes he was. It seemed in that time a movie came out yearly (I'd have to check out the facts to know for sure). They was all a serious spy thriller, but in a tongue n cheek, not taken to a serious way.
I lost interest around the brosman times. Think I seen one Daniel Craig movie, not sure how many he did. And I don't even know who the current bond is. 14 year old me would have known these stats off the top of my head.
This, smokey and the bandit, al of of clink eastward stuff, and lots of good comedy films, from this time. Just like bond alot of it wouldn't be allowed now, deemed sexist or racist. Back when people could laugh at the parody of life being played back at them.

[@rickyb5499]

Sir Roger, what an actor and gentleman, just class 🇬🇧

[@highwaystar3780]

Best Bond Ever. My Dad thought He was the most Beautiful Elegant Man Alive. Rip Both 😢

[@ibeetellingya5683]

And apparently a cartoonist as well

[@CarlT-cc9bn]

That’s the only accent I can think of that makes being on the receiving end of an air raid sound like a minor inconvenience.

[@ubermo1182]

@CarlT-cc9bn Also, for me, David Niven had that casual, dignified demeanor when relating his war stories.

[@culminate100]

There's a great play in ireland about Tom clean irish arcttic explorer...he wrote volumes of pages describing an amazing decent down a mountain on a rope..the British officer there in his diary wrote ...we decended rapidly.....😅😅pure britt stiff upper lip.

[@georgecaplin9075]

“Those blasted Gerry’s ruined that day. Couldn’t make tea for hours. Had a candle to read the paper by, couldn’t concentrate because of the rotten noise they were making”.

[@daleskidmore1685]

Roger has been one of my heroes since I was a kid. His autobiography is excellent, well worth reading.

[@shaun5944]

Thank you 👍

[@yoda-wanwindu8704]

Ooh...thanks for the rec 👍

[@john9972]

I watched him on TV in England as lvanhoe when I was a kid.

[@StephenButlerOne]

He seems to have two "roger Moore" and "last man standing". Which is the one you recommend?

[@saintpepsi8602]

My word is my bond is his autobiography name, the other books are just memoirs ​@@StephenButlerOne

[@gmf121266]

It' s interesting that Roger never thought of himself as brave and played himself down, but he was a great Bond and knew how to play the balance between action hero and vulnerable individual. Apart from all that he was a wonderful person with a heart for the disadvantaged. Roger...you are my James Bond!

[@aliabbasi3716]

Back when actors were actually well spoken and had class. Roger Moore, a true British gent 👍

[@boum62]

Also hard man in real life. Martial artist ...

[@Jakelakeable]

A-gent also

[@-NemoMeImpuneLacessit]

​@@Jakelakeable a secret a gent

[@RedAndYellacuddlyFella]

​@@-NemoMeImpuneLacessitnice

[@ianmangham4570]

They're all still very posh 🇬🇧

[@Nev-we2bb]

Everything that defines an English gentleman.

[@dongavenda5794]

When you touch war,
It touches you back.
Vietnam (69 & 70)

[@johnbowkett80]

The youngest Captain in the British Army at one point in his life . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Rapscallion2009]

Well, he *really* looked and sounded the part, you see?

[@slapjuice]

as in reality and not an actor pretending to be one?

[@pierrewilliams1533]

I never knew that. A nice anecdote for me as my uncle was the youngest Major in the British Army in WW2. Pity he's not alive for me to tell him about this!

[@canturgan]

I was surprised that he was a cartoonist.

​@@slapjuice
Yep, he was the real deal.

[@shaun5944]

The one and only RM amazingly clear and precise when talking 👍🇬🇧

[@Resimaster]

I had the pleasure of meeting Sir Roger Moore a few years back and he was one of the friendliest and most charming people I've ever met. A true gentleman.

[@geofthompson3844]

Everyone that's met him says how nice and humble he is. Classy is rate these days.

[@LydiaWhitting]

No my ex met him.. and is not so.

[@captain_context9991]

Roger Moore was an animation cartoonist? Wow. I never would have guessed that.

[@lucasroche8639]

My generation were the last to play in bomb sites. ..There were hardly any playgrounds till the mid '70s. Fun.

[@johnturner8383]

We played in bombed warehouses. The buildings had lots of floors sticking out into the open, the other walls had been blown away. Jumping up and down on them like trampolines. As children oblivious to the dangers.. Good Times for kid aaaaaa.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

We had bomb sites in Hull up until the late 90s. Park Street had the Land Registry put up but the rest of it was rubble drom the Hull Blitz for a long time. Worst bombed city in the UK.

[@davewolfy2906]

​@@LoudaroundLincolnyou forgot Liverpool, every Scouser will tell you that.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

@@davewolfy2906 well they would be wrong. Due to Hulls strategic importance and the landmark of the Humber estuary German bombers that would have Liverpool as a target, that were damaged before they got there, would turn home and attack Hull on their way back so they would be lighter for the journey and to at least do some more damage.
1200 people killed, thousands more of the population made homeless and more than half of the city destroyed.
The target was of course the docks but due to the efforts of the RAF, anti aircraft defence and the fire brigade, and of course thendock workers, the docks didn't cease operations for 1 day. Millions of tonnes in military aid flowed to the Soviet Union directly from Hull.
It was the last city in the UK to be attacked by manned aircraft. Right up until March 1945 the Germans attacked the city. That's when Soviet and Allied ground forces were invading Germany which gives an idea as to how important the german military viewed the place.

[@davewolfy2906]

@@LoudaroundLincoln some have bombed out sense of humour on here. I am also waiting for the offender Scousers.

[@AthelstanEngland]

I was lucky enough to see his speaking tour only a few years before he passed. A real gent, very funny and completely self-deprecating.

[@beverlybradley5485]

Sat behind Roger Moore at a Billy Connolly show, it was strange to see James Bond pissing himself laughing at the comedy legend, I’ll never forget that night.

[@johnje4285]

My Father was one of those bomb spotters

[@onesong2001]

I imagine they were lots of them

[@user-kt4tw9pn6r]

Quick fact. He was actually in the oxymoron that is military intelligence

[@user-hg2wp8cw4c]

Roger was pure class all the way.

[@boydmking1]

Used to watch his show called"The Saint" late 60's.
My favorite James Bond hands down.

[@robharris8844U]

After Bond he did "The Persuaders" with Tony Curtis which was similar to " The Saint"

[@John-du6ec]

​@@robharris8844Uthe persuaders

[@robharris8844U]

@@John-du6ec Yes how did Chrissy Hind get there 😬🫣I corrected it thanks 😊

[@Philip-hv2kc]

Was there a Knight Ivanhoe? It was on TV during the children's hour .

[@robharris8844U]

@@Philip-hv2kc Yes there was I think he did that before "the Saint" and it was in Black & White not colour!

[@donaldwatson554]

Wow, what a handsome charming Man.

[@izzabelladogalini]

They thought Connery was looking a bit old for Bond so they replaced him with Roger Moore - thing is Roger is actually older than Sean

[@thenodfather]

I didn't know he was a Cartoonist 🙂

[@robharris8844U]

He was also a model for mens clothing

[@smokeandkippers]

And a Captain in the British Army.

[@alisonsmith4801]

​@@robharris8844UHe modeled for " Knitting Patterns... my late Mum had a few of them. Not because she was a Roger Moore Fan but because she knitted a couple of the Jumpers for my Dad.

[@robharris8844U]

@@alisonsmith4801 Yes mens cardigans and slacks 🫣

[@fernleystephens2436]

My late Mum had a book of knitting patterns and RM model for one of them. I still have it, I took it to the Antiques Roadshow when they filmed the show near to where I live. The expert didn't know that Mr. Moore was a once model.

[@arthurbretas2003]

Always the most entertaining Bond in my opinion, definitely the funniest. Also loved his role on the Cannonball Run

[@wrexxjohnson8009]

My 95 yr old friend watched a V1 fly over his house from the door of his Anderson shelter as the engine cut out and it destroyed a house at the end of the road, sadly his mates mum and sister died in that explosion ....

[@johannesbauer4490]

Yes. Very sad, but unfortunately it was the Brit. gov't that created the whole situation with the bombing of German cities first. Not the Germans, as we are all taught.

[@enoch6450]

Class bloke

[@timeandspace_3.142]

A lot of Americans forget that civilians stuck out these attacks from the air as Britain stood alone in Europe

[@sheilasavage9679]

Best James bond

[@vinnyvincent2862]

TRIVIA : When he was first offered the role to play James Bond his agent rang him at his Home to give him the good news ! His home telephone number at that time ended in the 3 digits 007 😮

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

I miss old Roger. Class act.

[@MtnBadger]

My parents have stories like this and my father was lost at sea for three months uo in the Bering sea where they film Deadliest catch. Kids today are spoiled rotten and so disconnected from the realities of life that it's truly sad and the assault on our constitution is happening because it's "inconvenient." We're becoming lost as a nation after just two generations. So sad. 😢

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

GenZ is the absolute worst generation.

[@charliecroker6445]

Buzz bomb being the V1 doodlebug flying bomb.

[@Grubnar]

I was about to ask if he was talking about the V-rockets.
Thank you.

[@RoyCousins]

You would only know about a V2 when it hit you

[@charliecroker6445]

@@RoyCousins Both my grandparents had to take cover from the V1 , Lord Haw Haws mother lived in my home town and he knew about a rocket factory nearby , it was disguised as a chicken farm and never got hit.

[@Bigmac3112]

Such a classy, cool guy in all respects

[@patricksmith4424]

A truly class act, for me by far the best bond and live and let die the best bond film.

[@robertknowles2699]

Back to Live , Love, Lake. ( saw a sign outside on a house in Saybrook, Ohio from me bicycle this morning) or 'Live and Let Live ' .

[@patricksmith4424]

@@robertknowles2699 That was the hippie version.

[@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk]

Roger used humour to cope with the trauma of war.

[@boreid3432]

When actors had something to say

[@StoneInMySandal]

He was my favorite Bond.

[@CrabbyO]

Dick Cavit was a master interviewer.❤
And I love how Roger makes a little Groucho Marx impression.😂

[@johnfrancis2300]

Top bloke

[@onesong2001]

I sold him a packet of Victory-V's in 1974

[@snortyhog]

My mum used to work at the same advertising agency where Roger modelled & would give him his pay.

[@onecupof_tea]

He used to live near Streatham Common, and his father was a policeman.
It's incredible how he was in the army, then created a career on stage, then films in America.

[@DanielWright-np3fq]

Quiet dignity and grace, no self-aggrandizement or excessive ego here. Today's "celebs" would cry about their trauma and curse the idea of sacrificing for a war effort.

[@lrfiv]

Good thing you know what everyone else would do. Or, and just work with me, people have always been people. Some have class, some don't. And you never know if a person is worth a shit until it drops, and then you find out. It has nothing to do with how old they are, or what generation they're from.

[@colinluckens9591]

​@@lrfiv But this person is talking about the TENDENCY for people you hear today....

[@MrChrissy1r]

Anderson shelters protected from Phosphor bombs, and shrapnel. They could be all sizes from what Roger is saying here to really big ones that were often used as small factories after the war.

[@Loveitdownunder]

I worked on his car a Volvo P1800 from Elstree studios.

[@NigelHyphenJones]

You mean the car that he drove as Simon Templar in The Saint from the 1960s….. 🤔

[@benjaminmacdonald7656]

You can tell his experience during the blitz affected him.

[@jpw6893]

My dad met him, had a good couple of hours with him. He said he was just a nice nice guy.

[@christinecauseimanevilcar4073]

So dashing and handsome.. brilliant bond❤❤❤❤❤

[@chadwhitman1811]

I think he was kidding on the square about the 45 people that were killed.

[@jackjones9587]

Actually I think by his tone and body language that was true.

[@AJ-xv7oh]

​@@jackjones9587 It was definitely a joke.

[@jackjones9587]

@@AJ-xv7oh Really? It looked like he was struggling with some survivors guilt to me, but you may be right.

[@joebonomono5078]

That was probably the death toll in that city that day. There were tens of thousands killed in total during the bombings. He stated it matter of factly because it was true and he had become accustomed to it, it's unbelievable to us because we haven't had to deal with in our lives. Be thankful that our sense of humor hasn't reached his level of hidden pain and disgust.

[@petermontgomery8707]

@@AJ-xv7ohI don’t think so.His reaction was more the acceptance stage of grief.He wasn’t talking like one was a direct and immediate consequence of the other.

[@billbarton9046]

He was 007 when I was a kid.

[@matthewralph6437]

Proper gent...and he actually can relate to hitlers war on England.. experience the terror of war...and could joke about it...proper English man

[@moragmackay3597]

Hitler's war was on BRITAIN!!

[@antispindr8613]

Sadly, is not the far right mindset that Britain was battling against in the 1940s in danger of returning in 2024? For what is happening to Moore's values of compassion and fairness?

[@kenanacampora]

The Saxons versus their direct brothers the Anglo Saxons.

[@292Nigel]

It was the tragedy of the 20th century! 😢

[@Saxondog]

Yes a division ➗ that shaped the face of Europe for the worst 😢.
The fanatics and extremists have a lot to answer for.

[@Oxnaforda]

The saxons of Germany live in saxony, which is only one part of Germany, and the Anglo saxons ended about a 1000 years ago. We arent anglo saxons.

[@StephenButlerOne]

​@@Oxnafordaimmigration is to blame. The Saxons came here, after the Italians left. Creating the Anglo Saxons, that was a mixture of the indigenous people the Celts, and the other immigrants from the north. The Britons then came and diluted the pool again. Immigration is just what makes up the UK history. To say THIS now is the final form of the Brit, is a bit egotistical. It's a bastardised nation that's been forever evolving.
It's very much like the Christians say god mad them in his image. So why not create the human day one, why wait billions of years. In another 10 thousand years, we would probably not recognise whatever a human is then, just like we wouldn't 10k years ago

[@moragmackay3597]

​@@OxnafordaDNA of many English people proves your lie.

[@user-ks9hs7xl6r]

He was so Handsome.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

He must of been pushing 50 here and still a very good looking man.

[@wehosrmthink7510]

@@LoudaroundLincolncorrect . He was born in 1927, so he’s probably 46-48 in this interview.

[@thomasputko1080]

You can tell him saying this story costs him.

[@davidhorne8310]

THAT WAS ON MONMOUTH DRIVE IN SUTTON COLDFIELD

[@davidonions7004]

Really ? I live just around the corner

[@robbiereilly]

He also designed his own clothes for the show The Persuaders. Very talented and humble man with a great sense of humor.

[@antispindr8613]

...if a somewhat poor taste in fashion?

[@stevelauda5435]

My mom was born and raised in Sheffield. That was an important steel town
. Every nighit from 1940 when she wad ten years old, she had to keep her shoes 👞 beside her bed because you only had 2 minuts to get to the bomb shelter or else it would close by then and god help you if you were late! Even in the shelter she told me that she would block her ears and close her eyes shut hard so that the sirens 🚨 and bombs 💣 would be some what blocked. Ten year old girl.

he had a very good sense of humour especially when Chris Morris and Alan Partridge were taking the piss out of him..

[@boothy918]

Back when actors and celebrities had class.

[@paulforder591]

An articulate reminiscing of WW2 by Roger Moore. He was a classy, "tell it like it is" actor. (I read his autobiography, My Word is my Bond, but had forgotten he was a cartoonist.)
You don't get that today. ☺️

[@Isthatyoudermot]

He was in his Majesty's service in real life and on screen. Roger Moore and Connery were my favorite bonds as a kid. Daniel Craig in this era.

[@noka1979]

I loved him as Bond

[@jamesrobertson7906]

My exes mother was working in Chicago back in the day she walked into him coming out of an elevator she exclaimed Oh my... you're...and he quickly before she got it all out said why yes madame yes I am. Good day to you

[@dotarsojat7725]

My Brother said Roger Moore was as classy as his Bond persona. Opinion based on flying Mr. Moore around parts of Canada, when he visited as a UNICEF ambassador.

[@donhagerty5669]

❤ THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAVE EVER HEARD ANY PART OF A RODGER MOORE INTERVIEW.
I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE EXPERIENCED PART OF WORLD WAR II❤ THOSE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME SERIOUSLY CRAZY TIMES❤ I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW CRAZY THOSE DAYS MUST HAVE BEEN❤❤❤

[@rowdyyates4273]

Sean Connery WAS Bond! but Roger Moore WAS the Saint and was enjoyable tv for me-i even had his model volvo - great black and white film and lovely shots of the old the continent like monaco when there was peace and harmony 😊

[@theovernight1915]

He makes a joke about his dropping the whistle but if that really happened, you've gotta imagine he was tortured by that and the guilt along with it.
As a young boy, it would have been easy to see how he could have seen those deaths as his fault.
As a man, it would have been very difficult to get to a place where he truly accepted that it was the people dropping the bombs, not the boy who dropped the whistle, who carried all the blame for those deaths.

[@user-ks9hs7xl6r]

Also , the Best James Bond.

[@sorenbaek9626]

Just watched an old Roger Moore movie called Shout at the Devil with the legendary Lee Marvin. Classic Sunday afternoon movie based on a Wilbur Smith novel. Highly recommend if you never seen it.

[@foxman1546]

I remember him as Ivanhoe in a 1958 tv series. He then played The Saint (Simon Templar). Blessed with wit, good looks and charm. Much missed.

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

Targets. During the succeeding months about 3,172 V-2 rockets were fired at the following targets: Belgium, 1,664: Antwerp (1,610), Liège (27), Hasselt (13), Tournai (9), Mons (3), Diest (2) United Kingdom, 1,402: London (1,358), Norwich (43), Ipswich (1).

[@muhammadjalal877]

Handsome guy....how can I forget tv programs; The Saint and Persuaders and later The James Bond films....

[@namesake-uv8ug]

A wonderful actor and great story teller .

[@A190xx]

He was my favourite Bond

[@robertwalker841]

Plenty of Anderston shelters in the gardens of the uk still to this day.

[@kathygilbert1970]

Michael Caine said that, originally, Roger had the same accent as him. Roger worked hard to get a more refined accent.

[@sangredelic]

Michael Caine seemed so salty about that whole thing. He couldn't deal with the fact that he wasn't handsome enough to be Bond lol

[@mippim8765]

..my favorite bond.... ..he was also a cartoonist....

[@Bertiesghost]

Pure class.

[@Mrbimmer11]

THE REAL JAMES BOND

[@sugipixu2230]

he was the best 007 ever

[@user-pf8nc4rx7p]

A class act

[@5roundsrapid263]

Once, he and his wife were at the same bar as a famous rapper and his entourage. They instantly recognized him, and offered him champagne and cognac! “It’s James Bond!” 😄

[@kiphoover8705]

Warning, warning!! This man is smoking! For the love of God, blur out that cigar.

[@paulberesford9360]

Ooh, such class!

[@martin7955]

Loved this guy great man

[@daveanderson3805]

We don't make them like him anymore, and that is a shame.

[@gammon1183]

He had a flat on the same floor as my grandad and would frequently have parties and would borrow glasses and things off my grandad .
The most charming of men my grandad said.

[@barrierafton9611]

He had class

[@No.Handle31]

His voice is silk to the ears

[@redtobertshateshandles]

A bomb landed right on dads aunts house.
Afterwards, there were the front steps and a bit of the backyard wall.
A woman who was in the shelter across the road had her foot blown off.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Wow I never knew!

[@cricketbat09]

One of the 45 victims was Claude Bottom, lion tamer.

[@rogerturner5504]

Geddit 😅