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5 Roger Moore
- Date of birth: October 14, 1927
- Place of birth: Stockwell, UK
- Birth name: Roger George Moore
- Fun fact: In all of seven James Bond appearances, Roger Moore never ordered a vodka martini “shaken, not stirred”
- Times he played 007: 7 times
Roger Moore’s 007 movies:
1. James Bond: Live and Let Die
- Release: 1973
- His age at release: 46
- Salary: $1,000,000
- Fun fact: Sean Connery turned down the then astronomical sum of $5.5 million to play James Bond. Connery gave Roger Moore his personal seal of approval for inheriting his role, calling him “an ideal Bond”. (source: IMDB)
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2. James Bond: The Man with the Golden Gun
- Release: 1974
- His age at release: 47
- Salary: $1,000,000
- Fun fact: One of the lowest-grossing Bond films. That fact, combined with behind-the-scenes problems, nearly made this the final Bond film, and delayed production of The Spy Who Loved Me. –IMDB.com
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3. James Bond: The Spy who Loved Me
- Release: 1977
- His age at release: 49
- Salary: $1,000,000
- Fun fact: The movie received Three Academy Award Nominations – the most ever received by a James Bond movie to date. These were for Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Best Score, and Best Song – “Nobody Does It Better”. –IMDB.com
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4. James Bond: Moonraker
- Release: 1979
- His age at release: 51
- Salary: $4,000,000
- Fun fact: To build the gigantic three level Space Station set interiors at France’s Epinay Studios, the production utilized two tons of nails, one hundred tons of metal, two hundred and twenty technicians and ten thousand feet of set construction woodwork. –IDMB.com
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5. James Bond: For Your Eyes Only
- Release: 1981
- His age at release: 53
- Salary: $4,600,000
- Fun fact: Director John Glen estimated that every foot of film shot during the attempted drowning of Melina and Bond by Kristatos cost about £ 2,700 UK pounds. –IMDB.com
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6. James Bond: Octopussy
- Release: 1983
- His age at release: 55
- Salary: $5,200,000
- Fun fact: A hand with a pair of eights in the card game Texas Hold ‘Em Poker is called an “Octopussy”. This same hand is shown during one of the card games in Casino Royale (2006).
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7. James Bond: A View to a Kill
- Release: 1985
- His age at release: 57
- Salary: $7,500,000
- Fun fact: When Grace Jones as May Day screams during the mine sequence when sparks fly around her, her screams are for real. She did not know that electric cables around her would go off as a special effect for the scene. –IMDB.com