Sir Roger answers your questions January 2008

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Salutations Sir Roger,

I am quite interested in your clothing sense, and have been paying close attention to your style while watching episodes of The Persuaders and The Saint.  In comparing the two jet-setting playboys, Simon Templar is stylish, yet very conservative, and somewhat drab, especially compared to Lord Sinclair (love that brown striped blazer!).  Simon Templar wore lots of suits/jackets in grays, tans, and navy blues, and muted ties.  Lord Sinclair took some chances with lots of pastels and earth tones.  Did you have more input in what you wore in The Persuaders compared to The Saint, or can the difference in style be attributed to the styles of the times . . . the mid to late sixties vs. the seventies?  Or perhaps the wardrobe department had the different interpretations?

Thanks for being the only screen star who keeps in contact with fans through a monthly q & a.

Phil
USA

Hi Andrew

Yes I met Leslie on many occassions. He did think of himself as Simon Templar and was very protective of the stories as a result.

When we were doing the tv series, Bob Baker signed a deal with Leslie which only offered him the "right to comment" ... and he did. He was quite vitriolic on many occassions about the scripts. He couldn't do anything except voice his concerns though. So in terms of being hands on, no he wasn't.

He was a lovely, intelligent man though and I much enjoyed being in his company.

 

This is a film clip of Roger at the mill called Peron and Fosters in Bradford

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt40WPCxY6o

This is a little more information about Rogers time there as a director

http://www.roger-moore.com/pages/exclusive.htm

 

Dear Sir Roger

Happy New Year to you and your loved ones, I hope that 2008 is a great, safe, and healthy year for you.

My question for January is this....

I too am writing a book at the moment (I started about 3 days ago staring at an empty page on the computer screen).Very daunting.

It is sort of autobiography I suppose, (but not anywhere near as interesting as yours will be)and I am finding it hard to connect the thoughts and memories into some sort of order that makes sense.

Like you,(as you say in answer to someone's question this month about your book) I have been writing things as I think of them. I am just having trouble connecting them to other bits so they make sense as I said.

Do you have any tips on this please? (Apart from getting someone else to write it for me haha).

Also I echo Lindsey's comments about you being welcome here in Australia, should you want to visit.

Many thanks and best wishes for the success of your book when it comes out
Sincerely
Noel

Hi Noel

I can't really offer any tips I'm afraid, as I have someone to help me!

I guess just write as much as you can, get it all in place and then try and shape it!

My publishers have asked I visit Australia when the book is out. I hope it might be possible.

 

Dear Sir Roger, thanks a lot for your generous answer about my recent question about Shakira, who currently is nominated to the Golden Globe Award for the soundtrack of the film “Love in the Time of Cholera” directed by Mike Newell  and inspired en the great book of Gabriel García Márquez”.
By the way, if I don’t wrong, you won a Golden Globe Award like the world film favorite male in 1980. The information about this award is true? Which are your memories about this nomination? What do you think about the awards and nominations? Thank you and Happy New Year! Hasta pronto.
Dixon Moya
Bogotá, Colombia.

Hi Bogota

Yes I was world film favourite! It was a lovely surprise and I was told whilst in Goa filming The Sea Wolves, and I travelled to the USA for the ceremony.

I've not won one for acting though ... well, not yet!

 

 

Dear Sir Roger,
If I am lucky this time for my letter to be forwarded to you, firstly my continued best wishes and good health to you and your family for the new year.

Sir, I'd like to ask you if you have been considering any recent offers you may have received in television or film? Also, I'd like to know that, at this stage of your career, with such a exemplary track of films to your name and outstanding performances - is there still the ideal role, or cast, whom you'd like the opportunity to work with?

And finally, if I may ask, is there any possibility of you coming to Australia in the near future? Perhaps after the release of your book?

Thanks for taking the time to consider my question, and all the best.

Regards,
Ben Semerdjian

Hi Ben

A few things have come my way in recent months, but not exciting enough to make me sign on the dotted line. I'd rather do something of quality and something I'd enjoy than any old rubbish. Mind you,I've made my fair share of mistakes in thinking what I was doing at the time was quality.

I'm open to offers. Never say never

 

 

Happy New Year Sir Roger

I just bought and devoured all the Return of The Saint episodes starring the other guy They mention Leslie Charteris giving input and advice and it seems as though he had quite a firm hand in what went on, or at least thought he did from his notes. Was the same true for your time as Templar and did you also have influence as a young actor at the time?

Charteris seems to have been an interesting man and his biography has elements of Saintly maverick (leaving King's Cambridge after a year, and pursuit of adventure and wealth) yet short excerpts I've seen of him seem to suggest the opposite - he appears quite bookish. How did the personality balance between intelligent, literate author vs Templar-esque character? Is the answer to be found in the character of The Saint, or am I mistaken?
I assume you must have known him as a friend.

Thank you once again for the countless hours of joy you have added to my life. I am much indebted to you.

Fond and best wishes

Andrew Bentley

(Cape Town).

Hello Phil

Well, the two characters were quite different. Templar was rather conservative, whereas Sinclair was casual, hip and quite adventrous with some of his choices! I did indeed have more say on ThePersuaders wardrobe, through my involvement with Pearson's Mill in Bradford where I was a director. They supplied materials and I suggested designs.

Of course, as you say, the period was also reflected in designs too

 

Hi Sir Roger,
            I recently did a major "changing-the-furniture-around" operation in my house, and I stumbled across various packs of old photos that I'd long since forgotten about. I'm only in my early 30s, but there were photos from my primary school days, teenage years, and when I was just entering my 20s too! Whilst looking through the packs I found myself remembering little moments in time that I haven't thought about for years, captured forever on a photograph. It was also unnerving to reflect just how quickly life passes - it really doesn't seem like 5 minutes since I was starting secondary school, yet in reality it is twenty years!!

That got me thinking about a question I could ask you. As an actor, it must be particularly strange to have so much of your past captured on celluloid. To be flicking through the TV channels one day when suddenly you see yourself in some film you made back in the 60s or 70s! It must bring back memories, yet also there's the strange senstaion of seeing yourself at that time - talking, acting, dressing and appearing as you did then! Do you find it interesting (or perhaps a little depressing!) to look back at the films/programmes you made in the past? How does it make you feel when viewing them now that you're an octagenarian? Do you feel that time has flown since the days of The Saint, The Persuaders and James Bond? I suppose I'm asking a rather morbid question about age and how you perceive it really, but hopefully you'll have a reply to share with us??

Kindest regards, Jonathon (Wakefield, England)

Dear Jonathan

Yes, I dread seeing myself on TV. What a ponce I was!

It's an odd feeling seeing yourself, let alone from many years back when you had more hair and a thinner waist. I much prefer to watch my co-stars.

That said, I saw an episode of The Persuaders on German tv once, and felt I improved no end in translation.

Oh, I watched an old interview recently on YouTube and noticed I was smoking cigarrettes throughout. That really annoyed me.  I feel ashamed of that.

I still feel 30 inside though, it's only on the outside that I notice age has actually caught up with me. Touch wood, I'm doing ok though.

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