11 Questions to Roger Moore (1972)

What's your earliest memory?
Of wearing a bkue woollen suit when very small and thinking how big adults looked. I also vividly remember having mumps at two and a half.

What can you remember about starting school?
Being terribly ill. It was found I had double pneumonia and wasn't expected to live.

Brothers and sisters?
I was an only child. But a girl cousin stayed with the family for a time.

Any boyhood mishaps?
I climbed to the roof of the coal shed and fell trough, gashing my legs. I still have the scars.

Where did you live as a boy?
First, in Stockwell, South London. During the war I was evacuated to Worthing and a little later moved to Chester. One of the family I stayed with there was a railway signalman. I remember my excitement at being taken up to the signal box and watching the trains go by.

Your first ambition?
To be an architect. But in my mid teens I decided I wanted to be an actor.

Your first job?
As an artist with a firm making film cartoons. I'd always been good at art and drawing at school.

How did you get into show business?
As a film extra - playing a Roman soldier in Caesar and Cleopatra. A film director thought I had promise and paid for me to learn acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Where you in the forces?
In the Royal Army Service Corps, where I became an officer. Early on, riding a motorbike, I found I couldn't stop at a policeman's signal. So I veered to one side and ended up in the local Woollies!

Where do you live?
Denham, Bucks.

Do you watch yourself on TV?
No. I'd get too angry if I saw things I'd done wrong.

Taken from the Official Roger Moore Forum

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