Photo by Alain Dejean / Sygma
 
Negative Year: 1974 (printed year: 1974)
Print size: 22.2x29.8 cm
Style: Vintage print / gelatin silber print
Story documentation on the verso
 
The Backstory Roger Moore is surrounded by fans between two takes of Guy Hamilton's latest James Bond "The Man with the Golden Gun". 
 
Roger Moore considered himself to be only the fourth best actor to have played Ian Fleming’s secret-service agent 007 on screen: in his estimation, he came in behind Daniel Craig, Sean Connery and George Lazenby. But Moore's inimitable humour and panache made him many viewers’ favourite. 
What Moore did very cannily was to underline the absurdity of Bond himself. “My whole reaction was always – he is not a real spy,” he said. “You can’t be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That’s just hysterically funny.”
 
Moore devoted much of his time to being a goodwill ambassador for Unicef; it was for this humanitarian work that he was knighted in 2003.