Sir Roger answers your questions October 2007

You can ask Sir Roger Moore a question this month HERE !

Purchase gifts here and help UNICEF at the same time! Also you may get involved with UNICEF by joining or get alerts, or maybe visiting UNICEF in your country

 

Back to the

 

All material on this page must not to reproduced anywhere else with out permission.
© www.sirrogermoore.com 2007 alan@sirrogermoore.com

Hello Sir Roger

Firstly, may I say Happy Birthday for the 14th of this month. I hope you have a wonderful, very special day. Also congratulations on your recent Star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame. It's about time if you ask me.

My question for October is this:

I was wondering if your school days were a happy or not so happy part of your life, and could you share with us some of your school days memories please?

Thanks again for answering our questions and continued success with your UNICEF work.

With affection as always
Noel

 

Roger with his mother a little time before his school days !

 

Thank you Noel. Yes I had a lovely birthday, and subsequent birthday lunches, dinners and surprises ... my wife says it is my birth year, so I can expect more. That is ratherworrying for one watching his waist!
School was essentially a happy time. It wasn't unhappy, but with the war I was moved around and never really completed my schooling. I regret that slightly. As for other memories, ha, I'm going to say you'll have to wait and read the book - I don't want to give all my best stories away too early.

 

 Hi Roger, happy birthday to one of the classiest men on Earth!

I am from Norway and has been a fan of yours since the mid 80s, your Bonds are by far the best! My mother was a fan of you in the 60s with The Saint, so I guess it's in the genes!

Now the question; if you had not had (as you still have) your good looks and acting talent, what other carreer would you have preferred, not in terms of what you wanted to be when you grew up but looking back at your life and have had the chance to exploit so many different talents. Have you discovered talents you did not know you had when you were a young professional some 30-40 years ago?
Glenn

 

Hi Glenn
Well I'd always thought of becoming a doctor. But I never completed my schooling, as I told Noel, and so that kind of went sideways. It was then I decided to think about animation.
As for talents I have discovered. Maybe patience! Certainly humility, if that can be classed a talent.
I think new situations often bring out new aspects of a person's personality and even now that is the case. I just hope I have a modicum of talentin the writing field, or you might all be disappointed!

 

Dear Roger
I am SO pleased you are writing your Biography..just can`t wait to read it.
I wanted to ask what or whose is your favourite biography and also when are you in London next so I can grab a slim chance of getting your autograph. PLEASE do some more "Evenings with Roger Moore" and even though its been a very long time..do you still miss David Niven as much as the world misses characters like that?

 

 

 

 

Hi there
I can't wait to read it either. So that's two sales we're sure of.
I do miss Niv greatly. He was a great friend. I very much enjoyed Graham Lord's book on him and would recommend it. Other biographies I've enjoyed lately include Jon Gaunt (the DJ), the Reagan diaries and Judy Cornwell's autobiography.

Hello Roger

First, Congratulations for your Hollywood hall Of fame Plaque! What is your opinion on this special award and why did they wait so long? In my opinion, It seems you should have received it while you were still 007? a friend from Montreal.
Louis Martineau

i

Thank you Louis
It's a great honour to be given the Star and it was a truly memorable day with hundreds and hundreds of people there, and some of my dearest friends such as Steph Powers, David Hedison and Richard Kiel; along with

Kristina and all our children.
Why didn't I get one earlier? Well, who knows. But you do have to be sponsored you know - it costs about $25,000 so that can put people off! This was part of my special birthday celebrations, and sponsored by David McKenzie at Associated Television who I've worked with on many projects. I'm very grateful to him for such a marvellous gift!

Hello Sir Roger,

Wow, trying to follow the events of October makes one’s head spin! I am writing this on the 26th and so far you have been to LA - accompanied by all your family and several of your colleagues - getting a star on Hollywood Blvd, celebrating your birthday, enjoying an evening at the Thalians and it seems now you are in New York just having received an award by the United Nations.

We have been following all that via the media as far as possible but none of it could replace a few words of the man who this was all about himself.

Hence, after such a busy and exciting month I cannot ask one of the usual questions like “What did you do in film XXX in the 1960s?” or so. The inevitable question has to be: Would you like to describe in a few words what was the most impressive and most pleasing experience in those days in the US? Now probably back home in Europe and thinking back, what is your most vivid memory?

Thank you very much and once again my congratulations on ALL those commendations!
Martin

 

Happy 80th Mr.Moore! All the best! Another hero of mine was James Garner. I helped do a book on The Rockford Files and came to meet him. Great man. I asked him how we felt about working with you, he said he hadn't but wished he could have. He said you did a great job on Maverick.

My question to Roger is: What do you think of Maverick all these years later, and any words I can relay to Mr.Garner??

Regards, and thanks for all my fond memories of 007!

Darin James Bristow

Dear Darin

I haven't seen Maverick for a long time, though my memories of it are happy and indeed my friendship with Jim Garner. He's a lovely man and I share his sentiment about wishing we might have worked together. Maybe there is a producer out there who could fix that?

May I close by thanking everyone for their kind birthday wishes ... it's very touching for an old actor to feel so loved!

 

Go to UNICEF in your country

www.unicef.org

Thank you to Sir Roger Moore

Back to the