A British film, stage, and television actor born in Stockwell on 14 October 1927, Roger Moore pursued a career that spanned decades across multiple performance disciplines, including voice work, producing, directing, and autobiography.

Moore was educated at Battersea Grammar School, Launceston College, Dr Challoner's Grammar School, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before serving as military personnel. He became the third actor to portray Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent James Bond, first taking the role in Live and Let Die in 1973. He went on to play Bond in six further films: 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).

Among the honours Moore received were a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, followed by a Knight Commander of the same order, as well as France's Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died on 23 May 2017 in Crans-Montana. The James Bond films, in which he appeared across more than a decade, remain the most extensively documented thread of his screen career.