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And we are sad to report this morning that the actor Sir Roger Moore has died at the age of 89. Roger Moore played the role of James Bond between 1973 and 1985. He was knighted in his home country of England in 2003. Reporter Jacki Lyden has this remembrance.

JACKI LYDEN, BYLINE 1: Roger Moore was the third of six actors who played James Bond on the silver screen.

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LYDEN: His first Bond movie was "Live And Let Die," released in 1973.

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ROGER MOORE: (As James Bond) My name's Bond, James Bond.

JANE SEYMOUR: (As Solitaire) I know who you are.

LYDEN: He's starred in Bond movies over 12 years, his last one in 1985. Moored 2 embraced the Bond legend for decades afterward 3. He published four books about his playing Agent 007, all of them with a sense of humor. Some Bond fans thought Moore was too soft, too pretty for the role. In his 2008 memoir 4, "My Word Is My Bond," he called the character a lover and a giggler 5.

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MOORE: No, I even look as though I'd squeeze them to death with love and lust 6.

LYDEN: That was Moore on NPR in 2014. Bond certainly wasn't Roger Moore's first role as a man of action. He got practice in making secret break ins and daring escapes in the 1960s in the British TV series "The Saint." He played Simon Templar, a criminal mastermind who steals from the evil and the corrupt 7.

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MOORE: (As Simon Templar) One of your scientists discovered something that may have been a byproduct of his actual research, but because he was never questioned, he was able to develop it in absolute secrecy 8. What I think he made was a weapon.

LYDEN: Roger Moore was born in October 1927 in London and raised by two working-class parents to whom he was very close. He was an only child, and he joked that his parents attained 9 perfection on the first try. Moore appeared to lead a charmed existence. He even titled one memoir "One Lucky Bastard 10." For decades, Moore lived abroad as a tax exile. He was knighted for his humanitarian 11 work with UNICEF. When he was a young man, he read a good line in a bad script, which stayed with him the rest of his life, and he shared the line in his 2014 NPR interview.

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MOORE: My attitude about death is going into the next room and it's a room the rest us can't go into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in and we'll see one another again.

LYDEN: Sir Roger Moore. For NPR News, I'm Jacki Lyden.

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