Roger Moore, Former James Bond, Dies at 89

Roger Moore, the beloved actor best known for playing James Bond in the ’70s and ’80s, died in Switzerland on Tuesday. He was 89.

The star’s children broke the news in a statement uploaded to Twitter, noting that Moore passed away after a “short but brave battle with cancer.”

“We are all devastated,” Moore’s family tweeted alongside the statement.

“The love with which he was surrounded in his final days was so great it cannot be quantified with words alone,” his children, Deborah, Geoffrey and Christian wrote in the statement.

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Roger Moore's first appearance as James Bond was in The Man with the Golden Gun.