#Roger moore spouse movie

It was at RADA that 17-year-old Roger Moore met his first wife, an ice-skater, who was six years older and had a toddler son. Wife number two, singer Dorothy Squires who sued for conjugal rights. George Moore, a frustrated amateur actor himself, agreed to find the fees. Hurst saw a potential leading man and urged the boy to apply to drama college. In a red toga and sandals, Moore - by now a strapping, blue-eyed youth - caught the eye of director Brian Desmond Hurst. His first film was Caesar And Cleopatra, released in 1945, with Vivien Leigh. Desperate to pay his way, he decided to try his luck on screen as an extra. The job didn't suit Moore, who was frequently late and then fired after he lost a can of processed footage.

#Roger moore spouse movie

Moore's job was to take the cans of film to an Army office in nearby Mayfair - where, by a long coincidence, the technical adviser was another future movie star of quintessential Englishness, a Lieutenant-Colonel David Niven. Moore left school at 15 and, with a talent for drawing, went to work at a Soho movie publicity house as a trainee animator making war-time propaganda films. Years later, Moore discovered his father had sold his motorcycle to pay the doctor's bill.

He was a sickly boy and, aged five, fell ill with a fever so bad that the GP told his parents: 'I'll be back in the morning to sign the death certificate'. Moore was an only child, born on October 14, 1927, and brought up in a two-bedroom flat in Albert Square, Stockwell, in South-West London. Wife number one, the ice skater and actress Doorn Van Steyn who he met at RADA and married at Wandsworth Town Hall