“No, I mean the real one,” Geoffrey said. “I’m going to be James Bond,” Moore reminded him. Moore recalled that when he took his young son Geoffrey to lunch one afternoon in the early 1970s, he endured an interrogation that would rattle even the suavest superspy.Īsked if he could beat up anybody in the restaurant, Moore said yes, of course he could. David Niven was Bond in “Casino Royale,” a 1967 spoof that was not part of Eon Productions’ “official” Bond franchise.Īt 58, when Moore announced that he would finally hang up his Walther PPK, he was the oldest of all the Bonds. The others were Connery, followed by George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig.
