Sir Roger answers your questions June 2005

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Dear Sir Roger I would just like to express my thanks for the extremely enjoyable section of this forum of answering our monthly questions. It is wonderful opportunities to be able ask a famous actor we have grown up with, which normally would be totally beyond our reach, our hopefully interesting questions each month. I always look forward to logging in and reading your replies. Not every script can be a great film like Shoat at the Devil or many many more of your other wonderful films or are be as commercially successful like James Bond.
It seems actors sometimes turn down parts only to regret it later on so my question is if you had to comment on any scripts which you had possibly been given the opportunity to have acted on in the past that you decided not to accept and then regretting this later, which were they. But if there were no scripts you turned down you regretted which did you except you wish you had NOT !!!! By liver_birds

Michael Caine Capt. John ColbySylvester Stallone Capt. Robert Hatch.

 

Thank you for taking the time to think of a question, I do find them all very interesting.

As for films I have turned down and regretted .... no, in all honesty I cannot say I have. The reason I turned them down was because I didn't care for the subject. One film I thought about twice was ESCAPE TO VICTORY, with Sylvester Stallone. The thing is, I can't run and to be on a field of professional football players and look convincing was something I had terrible apprehensions about. I then thought "I'm an actor, I can do anything" ... but then thought "no Rog, steady on!". I almost believed myself for a moment.

As for scripts I accepted and regretted - take your pick!

No, that's too harsh. I do regret how some films turned out - not as good as I thought they could or should have been, but hey I took the money so can't grumble too much can I?.

 

When I was watching a re-run of your television show Ivanhoe, I noticed that you and Robert Brown (playing Garth), and also Desmond Llewellyn, were together participating as actors in this series as far back as the year 1958.
From 1973 on you would meet Desmond (playing Q) again on the set of subsequent James Bond films, and in 1983 Robert (playing M)in Octopussy.
Both were marvellous actors, and sadly they both have died in recent years.

My question is: Did you meet both actors earlier in other circumstances in the sixties and seventies, or just again at the film set?

Kind regards,
Richard

Bob Brown became a great friend of mine from Ivanhoe, through to his death. We spent a lot of tme together on and off set and I was very, very fond of him.

Robert Brown who played Gurth in Ivanhoe

Desmond became a great chum later on, through Bond, as I really didn't get to know him that well on Ivanhoe - it was only one episode, and we had a great many guest stars coming and going. It was a short shooting schedule so they weren't around for very long! Certainly we knew one another "in the business" as they say, but with Bond we became great friends.

Desmond Llewellyn 1914 - 1999

When the producers were casting for a new M in 1983, I suggested Bob might be a good choice. Cubby said he was thinking the very same thing, and Bob was cast.

I miss them both, but have many happy memories of them

 

 

Dear Sir Roger,

There is a poll on your website asking people which part of your site they like most. And so far over 64% voted in favour of the section in which you answer our questions. Which leads me to my question: Do you occasionally visit your website and if so which part (or parts) of it do you like best?

With kind regards
Martin of Vienna

 

 

Yes I do visit when time allows. I like to see what I'm up to next, and remind myself of how dashingly handsome, talented and modest I am.

It's quite something for a lad from Stockwell to see a whole site dedicated to him. It does an old actor good you know.

 

 

 

Hello Sir Roger,

Greetings from the US. I have enjoyed a great many of your movies, one of my favourites is Bed & Breakfast, and of course all seven of your Bonds, and most definitely The Saint and The Persuaders TV series. I have been wondering about the different languages you use, you speak them with such ease. How many languages do you know? Also, does this ability come in handy with your work for UNICEF?

I want to say I greatly admire all you and Lady Kristine do for UNICEF. You are an inspiration. God bless the both of you in this work.

Love and prayers,
Dee

Sir Roger Moore

I speak English and Italian fluently. I speak some French - enough to order eggs and chips, and that sort of thing. A few German greetings ... and a few words of Welsh, thanks to a former Mrs Moore - though I think they're mainly swear words.

I always try and learn a few greetings when travelling for UNICEF to greet my country hosts in their own tongue. After all, it is only polite to make an effort.

 

Hi Roger,
I trust you are well
My question is: Do you have a favourite episode of 'The Saint' and The Persuaders from the 60s 70s that you starred in?
Thanks

Sir Roger Moore

Goodness. That's tricky. I don't think I coud single any one episode from either series, though I'm particularly fond and proud of the ones I directed - mainly because I got paid more.

I enjoyed them all to be honest, otherwise I wouldn't have continued with them

Roger Moore in director’s mode on the set of The Persuaders.

 

Roger directing his daughter in the episode of The Persuaders called The Long Goodbye

Pictures from www.carltonvideo.co.uk. Thank you.

 

Dear Roger

I have been lucky enough to visit your son Geoffrey’s restaurant called Hush, without initially realising there was any connection to yourself. I truly enjoyed the wonderful food and relaxed atmosphere in its courtyard setting. But I have not managed to visit his other restaurant called Shumi yet. I also recently noticed on your website that he open other Hush restaurant in Gstaad but unfortunately this will be too far from me to travel. I just wondered which of his restaurants you frequent the most, on what would be your favourite meal on the menu. It must be nice not to have to pick the tab up and being able to keep Hush about it.

I was also reading a little while ago and the Internet that there is another restaurant called The Eagle which is a very private member, but I believe from memory this is not one of Geoffrey’s you are purely VIP guests.

Extremely impressed with your UNICEF endeavours.

Take care of your health and your wife. Jonathan

Sir Roger Moore

Ha! If only I could get away without paying. Actually it wouldn't be fair on my son, his partner and shareholders if I kept emptying the fridge so I'm just another punter when I go in to one of the restaurants, and rightly so. Of course, they should feel free to favour me with a bigger portion of pudding.

I like all the dishes (of course) and try something different each time. I guess Hush in London is the one I visit most, so maybe I'll see you in there at some point.

The Eagle Club is in Gstaad. I've been a member for years, so often turn up there when in town.

 

In "The Wild Geese" you co-starred with both Richard Harris and Richard Burton. Did you ever feel overshadowed or star struck by there status and presence even though you were obviously a global star yourself. Also did you ever feel that you learned anything from these two actors? If so what?

Kind regards, Edward.

Sir Roger Moore

I was in awe of both of them. Richard Burton was a wonderful, wonderful actor who I'd grown up watching on the big screen, and to be on screen alongside him was a boyhood dream come true. He was fascinating to watch. He had a terrific understanding of screen acting and how to use the camera. That was a masterclass alone.

Though neither he nor Harris were anything but great fun, good humoured and one of the lads - the cast and crew were one big happy family on that picture. They were real stars!

I've been a lucky little devil!

Thank you to Sir Roger Moore .

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