In his seven Bond films: Live And Let Die (1973), The Man With The Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View To A Kill (1985), he made James Bond his own.

My father, as you probably know, was a policeman here, and since I was his only child, we developed a really warm friendship.Broccoli and director Guy Hamilton had been in talks with novelist Anthony Burgess, famous for A clockwork orange. Moore had been aware of the character, “I knew that the English newspaper, the Daily Express, was running a competition to find a James Bond.

Inside, wandering circus acts performed in front of carousels and carnival rides designed by a crew of the greatest artists of their time. I went to El Savador on my first UNICEF field trip, and learnt first-hand about what life was like in a favela,” he told me. He was the Bond not only of his own but also the Daniel Craig generation by keeping Ian Fleming’s gentleman spy alive when people thought his best days were over.One thing that sets this film apart is undoubtedly its phenomenal production design from Ken Adam (with help from the ever reliable Peter Lamont). Sir Roger will always be remembered as the most enduring actor to play 007 and as a great ambassador for the franchise. Even though school was imminent the next morning, 007 let you escape into a world of glamour and excitement. They describe an unstable, illegible world, marked by the widespread infiltration of the power structures by increasingly indistinct enemies.