Actor Roger Moore (1927)

A View to a Kill (1985) is the fourteenth installment in the iconic James Bond film series. It marks the final appearance of Roger Moore as MI6 agent 007. While the title is based on Ian Fleming’s short story From a View to a Kill, the movie features an original screenplay. Bond’s latest mission takes him to Siberia, where he must locate a fallen agent and retrieve a valuable Soviet microchip. After analyzing the chip, Q reveals that it was created by Zorin Industries to withstand electromagnetic pulse attacks. To gather more information, ...

Octopussy (1983), the thirteenth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, marks the sixth time Roger Moore portrayed MI6 agent James Bond. The title of the film is derived from a short story in Ian Fleming’s collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights. While the overall plot is original, it does include an encounter with twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin and the death of British agent 009, who was dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg. This incident leads MI6 to suspect Soviet ...

For Your Eyes Only (1981), a spy film produced by Albert R. Broccoli and directed by John Glen (in his feature directorial debut), is the twelfth installment in the James Bond franchise from Eon Productions. The script, written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, is adapted from two Ian Fleming short stories – For Your Eyes Only and Risico. The British Ministry of Defence’s ...

Moonraker (1979) is a spy-fi film, the eleventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It features Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. Based on a screenplay manuscript originally devised by author Ian Fleming in 1954, the story follows Bond as he investigates the hijacking of a Drax Industries Moonraker Space Shuttle. M, head of MI6, assigns Bond to the case after the shuttle’s carrier aircraft is destroyed with no trace of the shuttle itself. During his ...

The tenth film in the James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was released by Eon Productions. Starring Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond, it takes its title from Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name. However, the film deviates from the plot of the book. When a British and Soviet submarine disappear, Bond is called upon to investigate. During his journey to receive his briefing, Bond manages to shake off an attack by a group of Soviet agents while skiing in Austria, eliminating one and eluding the rest. The plans for a revolutionary submarine ...

The spy film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) is the ninth installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Starring Roger Moore as the iconic MI6 agent, it loosely adapts Ian Fleming’s posthumously published novel of the same name. In this thrilling tale, an American gangster named Rodney seeks out renowned hitman Francisco Scaramanga with a bounty on his head. However, his attempted assassination takes a turn when he is led into a funhouse section of Scaramanga’s estate and falls victim to the hitman’s golden gun. Meanwhile, ...

Live and Let Die (1973), the eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, stars Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel of the same name, it follows James Bond, Agent 007, as he investigates a string of mysterious deaths of three MI6 agents within 24 hours. The killings occurred at locations around the world including the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New Orleans, and a small Caribbean nation called San Monique. While monitoring the operations of the island’s dictator, Dr. Kananga, ...

Created by Roy Huggins, Maverick (1957–1962) is an American Western television series with comedic overtones that aired on ABC from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962. The show follows the adventures of brothers Bret and Bart Maverick, both skilled poker players from Texas who travel through the rugged 19th-century American frontier by horseback, stagecoach, and riverboat. Throughout the five seasons, James Garner and Jack Kelly take turns as the lead character, but occasionally team up for episodes where they play as a ...