He certainly is a handsome man, but I don't think he looks that exceptional for a guy in his 40s. Handsome, yes, but Johnny Depp or even Viggo Mortensen in their 40s were comparable. (I get it, these are superstars, all exceptional people. But he's not exceptional for a superstar.)
Roger Moore-a man of enormous panache and charm,likewise The Persuaders a show that's absolutely enjoyable watching the light hearted banter between Roger and Tony
the saint and the avengers emptied out the uk streets back in the day..... fun non-pc shows that are still highly watchable to this day also, people forget the great character actors who turned up as villains, agents, cameos ... great nostalgia especially for boomer tv fans
What a line-up: Dr Jonathan Miller, the Rt Hon. Brigadier Prof. Enoch Powell MP, and the Elephant & Castle’s most famous offspring, copper’s son and UNICEF Ambassador (yet to be Sir) Roger Moore!
Very interesting mix of Roger Moore, Enoch Powell and Jonathan Miller on a talk show. You wonder what they might have in common, but it certainly makes for interesting TV. Three very admired people.
There is a link between Moore and Powell in that, in North Sea Hijack, Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (Moore) has a love of cats and only that character could get away with calling one of his black cats 'Enoch'! 😂
This is probably when Roger Moore was at his coolest and exuded confidence that truly rivaled Sean Connery. I think though that off set and in interviews during the Bond films he was more himself and projected less of an image, which is another kind of self-confidence.
Terrific series, “The Persuaders,” which ended when Moore signed up for James Bond. Two of my favourite films are “The Wild Geese” and “The Sea Wolves.”
Are was crazy about The Persuaders ever episode had more entertainment value than most full-length movies. The two stars were both fantastic...never better anywhere...I had heard that the cancellation was due to rating problems..Not surprised as the show seemed too good for average TV audiences...sound like a slob, but so be it...
@@photo161 Then I’m as much of a snob as you - let’s be proud of that! Here in the States, ABC mishandled the series by placing it in bad time slots; Curtis and Moore both said so. Plus, the producers were planning to trim the travel budget in favour of more studio work. Neither star favored that! Finally, Moore was preparing for Bond. Hence, another good series met a premature end.
Dick Cavett for a time in the early 1970's was highly feted in the UK and I recall his UK episodes. Cavett was/is extremely good. Moore is doing well here, very open as usual.
Upcoming star? He was the biggest tv star in the world with The Saint, and had been seen by more people on the planet than anyone else in human history at that point. Plus, he'd played Ivanhoe and Beau Maverick. He'd well and truly arrived, and was in the inner circles of the Hollywood elite.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS, and the other Moore clips! Just delightful! Always a great interview, especially with Dick Cavett, and those wonderful days long before Talk Shows were essentially scripted. Actually a pairing of Cavett and Moore would have been better than Curtis and Moore in the Persuaders! The wit and banter between the two is so extraordinary.
these interviews, these videos... such a time machine. That was present for these amazing people. They were living their lives, having a good or bad day. On this specific day maybe reading the news, which are old news now... And we know what will happen, what rest of their life will be, what they will achieve... Watching these videos I always get this strange fascinating feeling.
The truth is - he was in his 40’s ... but as he said himself- he always looked 15 years younger than he was. Which was the key to his longevity as Bond.
@@ciaranwalsh3725 Absolutely. Sammy Davis Jnr, and Harry Belafonte were good friends of Roger’s, there’s no way he would’ve supported Powell’s bigoted views.
This is amazing. I never realised that Roger Moore appeared as a chat show guest along with Jonathan Miller and also Enoch Powell mp - of all people. All rather admirable men in their different ways.
We should all have listened to Enochs words back the with his famous speech and taken action at that time and the world would be a much better place NOW.
"The Persuaders" (ordered on PAL DVD) aired in the U.K. on ITV and in the U.S. on ABC, which put it in a terrible time slot. It lasted one season. Lew Grade followed it up with an equally expensive series (already own on PAL DVD) called "The Protectors," Produced by Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill; Created by Gerry Anderson (starred Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, and Tony Anholt). It lasted two seasons, although it came close to a third. In the U.S. it was syndicated. It was shot on location all over Europe. Anderson and Vaughn each disliked the other. Anderson later cast Anholt in the second season of "Space: 1999." One disadvantage that "The Protectors" had in comparison to "The Persuaders" was that it aired in a 25 minute time slot, so it had less time for plot development. Lew Grade insisted on the 25 minute format. "The Persuaders" had a 50 minute time slot.
They were even higher than 75%. - If the income was "unearned" (ie, rents, interest etc) the rate was 87% - I kid you not. This absurdity started about 1968 and ended in 1979. How can stealing 87% of a person's property be caled "equitable"?
@@NoosaHeads Unbelievable. First person I heard mention it was Bill Wyman of the Stones. I said that was ridiculous. But it explained all the tax exiles ... and of course George Harrison's Taxman".
@@NoosaHeads that’s communist thinking. That people will be happy about having nearly 90% of their i come taken away and they they will just sit back and allow that to happen. What happened was what conservatives predicted would happen. The rich just left the country and took all that money with them. So instead of getting 50% of something, the greedy Labour government ended up with 90% of nothing.
@@baronmeduse the point being is that had the tax bracket for the rich been set lower to a fairer 50%. They wouldn’t have left. That’s what makes it relevant. The Harold Wilson government of the 60’s and the 70’s imposed this ‘wealth tax’. And the same thing happened both times. Any system of government who Continually do the same thing and expect another outcome is a stupid system of government and one not worth following.
I wish I was Roger George Moore or Sir Roger Moore / He was a Very Classy Suave Sophisticated Tongue & Cheek Gentleman that’s what I loved ❤ About Roger Moore when he Simon Templar in the Saint / Lord Brett Sinclair in the Persuaders & James Bond 007 Roger Moore was the Right Man for it all
Cavett says Moore is very wealthy ( bear in mind this was pre Bond) . Actually he was. a savvy businessman. When The Saint started filming in colour - a total of 47 episodes, Moore not only starred ( and directed a few episodes) but he became a co-owner of the show. The show was being syndicated (and still is to this day) all over the world and so he took a fair share of the royalties and profits. In more recent years he picked up the video and DVD royalties as well . He could have retired and just lived a very comfortable millionaire lifestyle as soon as The Saint finished. Not bad for a working class copper's son from South Lambeth!
Roger Moore- an incredibly handsome man- I agree he must be amongst the top 5 actors of all time. Who else would you put on the list? Errol Flynn, when he was younger, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tyrone Power, Monry Clift...By the way, I never thought Tony Curtis was particularly good looking.
It's a shame the Persuaders flopped terribly in the USA but that show ended up being EXTREMELY popular in Europe and especially Germany it got cult-stus. Both in the West AND East. And that was because they spiced up the dubbing with tongue'n cheek adlibbing and injokes (the so called "Schnodderdeutsch") and really lightening up the rather stuff british original. The dub was done by Rainer Brand who was notorious for doing insanely popular dubs. Especially for Italian & french movies. Tony Curtis saw the dub himself when he got himself a few dubbed episodes after they finished the first season, he laughed his ass off and loved it. He understood german very well because of his Mother. And he really loved that dub. He even wanted Rainer Brand to write the dialogs for the second season. But unfortunately Moore and Curtis didn't get along well and a second season never happened.
No offence, but I can't even if my life depends on it, understand how you can stand these dubbings. It takes so much out a movie. I can't even begin to imagine how Roger Moore would sound like in German or any other language for that matter.
@@MartinGsl Agreed. Having grown up in a country that exclusively uses subtitles, I just can't stand dubbing. It's so fake. Even if it's a language I don't understand a single word of, I'd rather hear the real voice and tone of the actor, than some guy talking over it.
@@MartinGsl I can understand both German and English and I probably would agree, if I was a Brit not understanding German, BUT, they did really a great job and Moore sounds very "upper class" british, "snobby" in a good way in the German version. The german version is really much funnier than the original and I usually perfer the originals too.
Jonathan Miller told a story earlier in the show (not seen here) that when he was a youth in school he was forced to box in gym class against a kid by the name of H.V.D. Jones, who was much better and skilled 'in the pugilistic arts' as Miller described him.
I believe it will be a long time before we see ANYONE who could come close to matching the delight felt while watching Roger Moore!!!!
Agree 100%
So true
I met him, was amazing.
Sense of humor, Roger Moore..
None better very very sadly missed 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
Roger Moore was a classy gentleman.
Until he left his wife Luisa Mattioli to run off with her best friend.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 lol Did you see him in James Bond!
@@johnmc3862 And that is relevant to what I said how?
@@johnmc3862
Bond is make believe. His private life wasn't.
And what sultry speaking voice
The guy was in his 40s here and looks just amazing. ....Roger is probably in the top 5 of best looking actors ever.
The best
Agree!
He certainly is a handsome man, but I don't think he looks that exceptional for a guy in his 40s. Handsome, yes, but Johnny Depp or even Viggo Mortensen in their 40s were comparable. (I get it, these are superstars, all exceptional people. But he's not exceptional for a superstar.)
What about Andrew Tate? 🙂
Forty isn’t old though
Roger Moore-a man of enormous panache and charm,likewise The Persuaders a show that's absolutely enjoyable watching the light hearted banter between Roger and Tony
Well put.
The late great Sir Roger Moore
A Kind, classy and charitable man.
My favorite James Bond .RIP
My best bond
My best bond
Agree. Same.
He was ludicrously handsome back then.
Imagine having guests like Powell and Moore on the same show today!
Holy smokes! What a good-looking man.
God bless you 007. You Only Live Once. Rest in Peace Roger Moore.
Roger Moore was Too Cool!
Best Bond Actor. I watch these videos just so I can Learn how to be like Him
I'd forgotten how handsome he was. Loved the Persuaders when I was a child & he & Tony Curtis were perfect together.
the saint and the avengers emptied out the uk streets back in the day.....
fun non-pc shows that are still highly watchable to this day
also, people forget the great character actors who turned up as villains, agents, cameos ...
great nostalgia especially for boomer tv fans
What a line-up: Dr Jonathan Miller, the Rt Hon. Brigadier Prof. Enoch Powell MP, and the Elephant & Castle’s most famous offspring, copper’s son and UNICEF Ambassador (yet to be Sir) Roger Moore!
I think Michael Caine is also from Elephant and Castle. Is Stockwell in E&C?
Amazing actor and a very funny man you can listen to him all day long 😄
Roger was one smooth guy!
Roger Moore was a lovely, self deprecating man. I met him a few times in the 70’s and he was really charming. Loved The Persuaders.
oh were you in his circles considering you met him afew times.
Very interesting mix of Roger Moore, Enoch Powell and Jonathan Miller on a talk show. You wonder what they might have in common, but it certainly makes for interesting TV. Three very admired people.
I imagine Moore and Miller hated Powell.
@@Justanotherandy63 well rightly so!
@@Justanotherandy63 Miller, yes. He and Powell got into a spirited discussion on UK immigration that you can see on another upload.
Powell was only admired by inbreds and delusional people.
There is a link between Moore and Powell in that, in North Sea Hijack, Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (Moore) has a love of cats and only that character could get away with calling one of his black cats 'Enoch'! 😂
This is probably when Roger Moore was at his coolest and exuded confidence that truly rivaled Sean Connery. I think though that off set and in interviews during the Bond films he was more himself and projected less of an image, which is another kind of self-confidence.
Roger oozed such elegance and class without ever coming across as big headed or pushy a real lovely guy loved by his many good friend's ❤
Terrific series, “The Persuaders,” which ended when Moore signed up for James Bond. Two of my favourite films are “The Wild Geese” and “The Sea Wolves.”
snap !!!!
Are was crazy about The Persuaders ever episode had more entertainment value than most full-length movies. The two stars were both fantastic...never better anywhere...I had heard that the cancellation was due to rating problems..Not surprised as the show seemed too good for average TV audiences...sound like a slob, but so be it...
@@photo161 Then I’m as much of a snob as you - let’s be proud of that! Here in the States, ABC mishandled the series by placing it in bad time slots; Curtis and Moore both said so. Plus, the producers were planning to trim the travel budget in favour of more studio work. Neither star favored that! Finally, Moore was preparing for Bond. Hence, another good series met a premature end.
Meant to say, " sound like a snob? so be it...
I've always enjoyed North Sea Hijack too
Dick Cavett for a time in the early 1970's was highly feted in the UK and I recall his UK episodes. Cavett was/is extremely good. Moore is doing well here, very open as usual.
Roger Moore was such a sweetie - did so much for charity, always gently amused.
Persuaders was a great show
he is genuinely amused and amusing ..funny and giving the impression of calm and laid back.
Probably the most handsome and the most charming man the world has ever seen.
So little importance he's been given just introduced as an upcoming star, little did they know one of the best James Bond is there!
THE best Bond, in my opinion. Connery, Dalton and Craig were good too though.
Upcoming star? He was the biggest tv star in the world with The Saint, and had been seen by more people on the planet than anyone else in human history at that point. Plus, he'd played Ivanhoe and Beau Maverick. He'd well and truly arrived, and was in the inner circles of the Hollywood elite.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS, and the other Moore clips! Just delightful! Always a great interview, especially with Dick Cavett, and those wonderful days long before Talk Shows were essentially scripted. Actually a pairing of Cavett and Moore would have been better than Curtis and Moore in the Persuaders! The wit and banter between the two is so extraordinary.
I bet that Persuaders show was fun to make, seems like each episode they were in a different country.
It was snow and champagne for both gents every day: no wonder Sir Rog loved his work so much!
As I recall the Persuaders was filmed in the south of France. Never saw any other country.
Apparently it was so fun that Roger gain some weight from the good times filming
@@theovanrossum8652 England too, especially at Pinewood
these interviews, these videos... such a time machine. That was present for these amazing people. They were living their lives, having a good or bad day. On this specific day maybe reading the news, which are old news now... And we know what will happen, what rest of their life will be, what they will achieve... Watching these videos I always get this strange fascinating feeling.
I will ALWAYS ADORE Roger!!!! And DC, love this program-I haven’t laughed so in a VERY long time!!
He had no chips on his shoulder or big headed he was my hero
As a straight guy, I think Roger was a very good looking charming man.
As a straight man myself- I agree 100% with your statement. Which current movie stars today are as good looking as Moore in his prime? None
I regard myself as in the category of `Envy without Desire.` In short, I quite agree with you.
@@dogwithwigwamz.7320 Well said
@@dogwithwigwamz.7320 ... eloquently put Mr Metal Hammer- I could not have put it better myself
I'm a straight man and wonder am I living a false reality or I'm just going nuts!
Will always Love Roger Moore❤Rip, darling💙
A truly wonderful man very very sadly missed 😥😥😥
Total class and charm. Not a lot of men like this nowadays, it seems.
That theme tune is a classic.
He was so British!
Natalie de La Grandière is such an awesome name 😍😍
Yrs very elegant and handsome gentleman 🇬🇧🏴
Roger Moore looks so young here.
He looked younger than that at birth.
@@viralbuthow000 What's your point?
he was 44 here, so he wasnt that young after all.
He is really handsome
The truth is - he was in his 40’s ... but as he said himself- he always looked 15 years younger than he was. Which was the key to his longevity as Bond.
Roger Moore : eternal Lord Brett Sinclair, Simon Templar and James Bond ! A very charismatic and classy actor !
"It wasn't during the time of the postal strike." Brutal but elegant.
I missed the meaning of this reference - I knew it was a good comeback of sorts.
I didn’t 100% get this but guessed it was a barb. Was he questioning if Powell just made the woman up rather then getting a letter from her?
@@ciaranwalsh3725 Absolutely. Sammy Davis Jnr, and Harry Belafonte were good friends of Roger’s, there’s no way he would’ve supported Powell’s bigoted views.
Dick Cavett is the best presenter. Period 🇬🇧🇺🇸
This is amazing. I never realised that Roger Moore appeared as a chat show guest along with Jonathan Miller and also Enoch Powell mp - of all people. All rather admirable men in their different ways.
Admiral? That's comment says so much
We should all have listened to Enochs words back the with his famous speech and taken action at that time and the world would be a much better place NOW.
Yes it only we had embraced diversity and rejected devide and rule politics. We could have got rid of fascism by now.
Enoch's rivers of blood speech foreshadowing at its finest.
I Love You Roger Moore My Sweetheart Darling
I Love You So!!!!💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
I'm a heterosexual man but roger was a really good looking man very sadly missed
@@andymatthews7617 I Truly Feel Your Pain.
Me Too.
@@tiffaniaporchiazzo3397 we wont see anybody as good as roger ever again 😥😥😥
@@andymatthews7617 I'm So Sorry
@@tiffaniaporchiazzo3397 great memories though that's all we have in life
The Persuaders theme tune is awesome (John Barry)
John barry is a very good musician
And another 007 connection.
Met him at a chemist in west london in the 90s got his autograph very polite man i had much respect for him R.I.P
Hey what a true gent Roger Moore was. We’ll never see his like again.
Roger Moore, head and shoulders the best James Bond.
@Rishi J Yeah
Totally agree a really nice man no edges on him
No.
Remember that serie, great tv those years.
Wonderful man: the most handsome actor ever, imho
Great episode. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
Effortless. What a legend.
I liked Roger’s little postal strike comment to Powell, went over everybody’s head did that.
I liked Enoch Powell’s comment to play the media like a man playing a musical instrument!
WOW Smoking a cigar on live t v ., lol, things have changed. Roger Moore was always cool
He was always The Saint in my time I did watch all his Bond Films though and The Persuaders was a mixture of Both
The coolest man who ever lived
What a classy fellow!
Oh, that ending was funny. You'd have to see the earlier part to know.
Felt a very awkward show. Didn’t flow very easily. RM is a legend, never takes things seriously and can lighten the mood instantly.
Moore was good looking and charming
Good times to remember.
Charming fellow.
I wish Sean Connery had done "Live And let Die". That would have given Roger more time to do another series of "The Persuaders!"
Both Roger Moore and The Dick Cavett Show are a class act.
My favorite part is at 0:43 when Cavett corrects himself for indicating that there might be more than one heaven.
"The Persuaders" (ordered on PAL DVD) aired in the U.K. on ITV and in the U.S. on ABC, which put it in a terrible time slot. It lasted one season. Lew Grade followed it up with an equally expensive series (already own on PAL DVD) called "The Protectors," Produced by Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill; Created by Gerry Anderson (starred Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, and Tony Anholt). It lasted two seasons, although it came close to a third. In the U.S. it was syndicated. It was shot on location all over Europe. Anderson and Vaughn each disliked the other. Anderson later cast Anholt in the second season of "Space: 1999." One disadvantage that "The Protectors" had in comparison to "The Persuaders" was that it aired in a 25 minute time slot, so it had less time for plot development. Lew Grade insisted on the 25 minute format. "The Persuaders" had a 50 minute time slot.
ROGER MOORE THE BEST!! AND THE PERSUADERS WITH tONY! CURTIS!!!
Totally agree very very sadly missed 😥😥😥
miss u Roger 😢 ❤
An absolute class act.
Cocktail cuff shirt & gauntlet cuff jacket! Wow!
,,,,,,, Legend !
Tragic hes gone
We're not obsessed with accurate news reporting anymore!!!
British taxes in 1971 were a whopping 75% on top rated income.
They were even higher than 75%. - If the income was "unearned" (ie, rents, interest etc) the rate was 87% - I kid you not. This absurdity started about 1968 and ended in 1979.
How can stealing 87% of a person's property be caled "equitable"?
@@NoosaHeads Unbelievable. First person I heard mention it was Bill Wyman of the Stones. I said that was ridiculous. But it explained all the tax exiles ... and of course George Harrison's Taxman".
@@NoosaHeads that’s communist thinking. That people will be happy about having nearly 90% of their i come taken away and they they will just sit back and allow that to happen. What happened was what conservatives predicted would happen. The rich just left the country and took all that money with them. So instead of getting 50% of something, the greedy Labour government ended up with 90% of nothing.
He wasn't paying them anyway, so it's irrelevant.
@@baronmeduse the point being is that had the tax bracket for the rich been set lower to a fairer 50%. They wouldn’t have left. That’s what makes it relevant. The Harold Wilson government of the 60’s and the 70’s imposed this ‘wealth tax’. And the same thing happened both times. Any system of government who Continually do the same thing and expect another outcome is a stupid system of government and one not worth following.
Love the cigar !
What a life lived
My Sweetheart Darling Roger Moore Lord Brett Sinclair
I Love You So Much Baby❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
"I got worried I may never work again" - proceeds to star in 7 James Bond movies.
I wish I was Roger George Moore or Sir Roger Moore / He was a Very Classy Suave Sophisticated Tongue & Cheek Gentleman that’s what I loved ❤ About Roger Moore when he Simon Templar in the Saint / Lord Brett Sinclair in the Persuaders & James Bond 007 Roger Moore was the Right Man for it all
Qu'il était beau, Mon Dieu !
Je l'aimerai toujours et il me manque....
Very funny combination of characters.
Cavett says Moore is very wealthy ( bear in mind this was pre Bond) . Actually he was. a savvy businessman. When The Saint started filming in colour - a total of 47 episodes, Moore not only starred ( and directed a few episodes) but he became a co-owner of the show. The show was being syndicated (and still is to this day) all over the world and so he took a fair share of the royalties and profits. In more recent years he picked up the video and DVD royalties as well . He could have retired and just lived a very comfortable millionaire lifestyle as soon as The Saint finished. Not bad for a working class copper's son from South Lambeth!
Class
Strange how smoking a cigar (which I used to) was just accepted as a normal part of life yet these days people would be horified.
Roger Moore was smoking cigarres at this time but stopped smoking I believe in late 70's or early 80's.
You can hear the murmur of the audience shocked at how good looking he is.
I was nuts about him 😍
The persuaders did well in Europe but flopped in the States so it only lasted one season
Roger Moore's mother was indeed born in India. I thought he was joking when he said it.
That walk-on music tho. 😂😂
enoch powell and roger moore what a random combination
Roger Moore- an incredibly handsome man- I agree he must be amongst the top 5 actors of all time. Who else would you put on the list? Errol Flynn, when he was younger, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tyrone Power, Monry Clift...By the way, I never thought Tony Curtis was particularly good looking.
ROGER MOORE HAD ALL OF A LORD ! 👌👌👌👌
Cavett so threatened
True englishman Anglo-Saxon
Smoking a corona has never looked more gentile and classy as the way Roger Moore did. LOL
What a suave MF'er.
It's a shame the Persuaders flopped terribly in the USA but that show ended up being EXTREMELY popular in Europe and especially Germany it got cult-stus. Both in the West AND East. And that was because they spiced up the dubbing with tongue'n cheek adlibbing and injokes (the so called "Schnodderdeutsch") and really lightening up the rather stuff british original. The dub was done by Rainer Brand who was notorious for doing insanely popular dubs. Especially for Italian & french movies. Tony Curtis saw the dub himself when he got himself a few dubbed episodes after they finished the first season, he laughed his ass off and loved it. He understood german very well because of his Mother. And he really loved that dub. He even wanted Rainer Brand to write the dialogs for the second season. But unfortunately Moore and Curtis didn't get along well and a second season never happened.
No offence, but I can't even if my life depends on it, understand how you can stand these dubbings. It takes so much out a movie. I can't even begin to imagine how Roger Moore would sound like in German or any other language for that matter.
@@MartinGsl Agreed. Having grown up in a country that exclusively uses subtitles, I just can't stand dubbing. It's so fake. Even if it's a language I don't understand a single word of, I'd rather hear the real voice and tone of the actor, than some guy talking over it.
@@MartinGsl I can understand both German and English and I probably would agree, if I was a Brit not understanding German, BUT, they did really a great job and Moore sounds very "upper class" british, "snobby" in a good way in the German version. The german version is really much funnier than the original and I usually perfer the originals too.
Did Roger ever give a dull interview,if so I've never seen it.
If you didn't know him you'd think he was royalty
❤
Can someone explain the last joke? It's clearly a reference I'm not getting. It was recorded 51 years ago, after all!
Jonathan Miller told a story earlier in the show (not seen here) that when he was a youth in school he was forced to box in gym class against a kid by the name of H.V.D. Jones, who was much better and skilled 'in the pugilistic arts' as Miller described him.
Was Dick Cavett over here, or were we over there ?