Longest-serving James Bond star Roger Moore dies at 89

A chat with Roger Moore on James Bond actors (2012).. “I could have done better.”

He appeared in the most Bond movies, and is the first “serious” Bond actor to die (we’re not counting David Niven’s campy version)

LONDON (AP) – Roger Moore, the longest-serving movie star to play iconic British spy James Bond in the famed film series, has died in Switzerland after a brief bout with cancer. He was 89.

A message from his family shared on the actor’s official Twitter account Tuesday read: “With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated.”

The statement continued that Moore “has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer.

“The love with which he was surrounded in his final days was so great it cannot be quantified in words alone.”

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Before Bond, Moore was The Saint on TV from 1962-69. He was still working on a pair of projects still in production, doing voice over roles for Troll Hunters and Astrid Silverlock

The Bond Movies

1973 – Live and Let Die
1974 – The Man with the Golden Gun
1977 – The Spy Who Loved Me
1979 – Moonraker
1981 – For Your Eyes Only
1983 – Octopussy
1985 – A View to a Kill