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That’s right, Roger Moore has played England’s greatest detective, as well as her finest secret agent. In 1976 he starred in Sherlock Holmes in New York. Patrick Macnee was cast as Watson (a role he would reprise for Christopher Lee’s two nineties films, and would play Holmes himself in 1993’s The Hound of London).
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Although Moore won a contract with MGM in the 1950s, the films which followed were not a success and, in his own words, "At MGM, RGM (Roger George Moore) was NBG [no bloody good]." His starring role in The Miracle, a version of the play Das Mirakel for Warner Bros., had been turned down by Dirk Bogarde.
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Back in Hollywood with Warners in 1959, Moore was given a starring role in the television series The Alaskans. Moore played Silky Harris, an adventurer, and already the suave sophistication that became a later trademark was in evidence. The series was a variation on the one-hour Western series which Warners had been successfully churning out for several years but The Alaskans only lasted one season. However, Warners persisted with
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Moore discovered roleplaying games in the late 1970s while writing gaming articles for various magazines while he was with the U.S. Army. He joined TSR, Inc. as a magazine editor in May 1983, progressing through the ranks to become the editor of both Dungeon and Dragon magazines. He later moved to the games division and became creative director of the AD&D core rules product group. He joined Wizards of the Coast in 1997 when TSR, Inc. was acquired and continued to write and edit gaming materials of all sorts, finally leaving the company in late 2000.
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In recent times Moore has hosted a number of TV specials, his latest roles were in the Jean Claude Van Damme film "The Quest" and much to the disgust of many Bond fans, the Spice Girls movie. Moore is now mainly involved with the charity UNICEF, which he became involved in through his long friendship with Audry Hepburn.
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It can be argued that Moore is more of a personality than an actor. In the early 1970s, the BBC very much wanted him to host a talk show; in his own words, they 'bent over backwards and offered a great deal of money'. He declined the offer, which may have been given to Michael Parkinson instead, but after giving up the Bond role, has more often been seen hosting award ceremonies, guesting on talk shows' and generally being himself, than actually acting.
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