Roger Moore, the tall, blue-eyed James Bond star whose deft touch helped lift the spy-action franchise to new box-office heights in the 1970s and 1980s, died today in Switzerland at age 89. The Star Wars-influenced Moonraker reigned as the top-grossing Bond film for nearly 20 years. It and 1983's Octopussy remain among the film series' top 10 all-time hits at the U.S. box office. "First of all, my whole reaction [to the character] was always — he is not a real spy," Moore told the New Yorker. Roger Moore as James Bond in 'The Spy Who Loved Me': Watch 'Ski Chase':Born Oct. 14, 1927, in London, Moore began nabbing minor work in the British film industry as a teenager.
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Richard Kiel, right, as Jaws and Roger Moore, as James Bond, fighting in the 1977 film "The Spy Who Loved Me." Roger Moore, center, with Maud Adams, left, and Britt Ekland, from the James Bond 1974 film "The Man with the Golden Gun." (AP)For Mr. Moore, Bond was Simon Templar on a grander scale and more satiric. For his charitable work, Mr. Moore was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. "I started working out like bloody mad and starving and getting my hair cut," Mr. Moore later told Entertainment Weekly.
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