He kept popping in and saying, ‘How’s this Guy?’ I said, ‘No, Roger, it’s got to be short back and sides. “Roger had enough hair to stuff a mattress and we had to get his haircut which was quite dramatic. ![]() “My job is to bring out your strengths and cover your weaknesses,” the director told Moore. Guy Hamilton played a major role in preparing Roger Moore for Bond. Roger amusingly recalled taking his son Geoffrey for lunch at The White Elephant shortly after landing the role “He sat and looked around the room and he said, ‘Dad, could you beat up anybody in here?’ And I looked around, they were fairly older, and I said ‘Yeah, sure I could.’ He said ‘What about if James Bond came?’ I said, ‘but I'm going to be James Bond.’ He said ‘No, I mean the real one, Sean Connery.” I confessed to Guy that in reading the script I could only ever hear Sean’s voice saying, ‘My name is Bond.’ In fact, as I vocalised it to myself I found that I was giving it a Scottish accent.” Moore met Guy Hamilton, the director of his first Bond movie, Live And Let Die, at the Ian Fleming haunt, Scotts, “over a dozen oysters and martinis. Finally, he got the call from Saltzman and was announced as the new James Bond on the 1st August 1972. He interacted with both Broccoli and Saltzman socially and recalled he would sit around the gambling tables of Mayfair with them “like real life James Bonds.” He recalled viewing the early Bond films in Eon’s private South Audley Street screening room. ![]() Later, in 1967 he had passing discussions with them following Sean Connery’s departure. Roger Moore had been a contender from the very beginning when the producers were casting Dr. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were on the verge of offering him the biggest role in cinema – James Bond 007. Moore refused a second series because he heard Albert R. He yearned to make his break on the big screen, but was lured once more to a lucrative TV deal when Grade pitched him The Persuaders. It made Roger Moore a household name, running for six seasons, totalling 118 episodes, some of which Moore directed himself. But he hit pay dirt when mogul Lew Grade cast him as Simon Templar in The Saint. He found his forte on British television and from 1958 to 1961 starred in three major shows Ivanhoe, The Alaskans and Maverick.
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