Editing Roger Moore (section)

==Early life==
Roger George Moore was born on 14 October 1927 in [[Stockwell]], London.<ref name="BFIObit">{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/roger-moore-star-who-gave-james-bond-bone-dry-wit |title=Roger Moore obituary: the star who gave James Bond a martini-dry wit |date=25 May 2017 |publisher=BFI |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref> He was the only child of George Alfred Moore (1904–1997), a policeman based in [[Bow Street]], London, and Lillian "Lily" Pope (1904–1986).<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/roger-moore-dead-james-bond-actor-the-saint-dies-aged-89-maverick-persuaders-a7751561.html |title=Sir Roger Moore: Remembering the quintessential English actor forever linked with James Bond and The Saint |last=Sellers |first=Robert |date=23 May 2017 |work=The Independent |access-date=24 May 2017 }}</ref> His mother was born in [[Calcutta]], India, to an English family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.genealogyreviews.co.uk/reviews/article/families-of-the-famous-james-bond/|title=Genealogy Reviews|website=www.genealogyreviews.co.uk}}</ref> He attended [[Battersea Grammar School]], but was [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuated]] to [[Holsworthy, Devon|Holsworthy]] in [[Devon]] during the [[Second World War]], and attended [[Launceston College, Cornwall|Launceston College]] in [[Cornwall]]. He was further educated at [[Dr Challoner's Grammar School]] in [[Amersham]], [[Buckinghamshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.challoners.com/c/overview/history-of-dcgs/at-war-again |title=At war again |work=Dr Challoner's Grammar School |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>

Moore was apprenticed to an animation studio, but he was sacked after he made a mistake with some [[Cel|animation cel]]s.<ref name=":0" /> When his father investigated a robbery at the home of the film director [[Brian Desmond Hurst]], Moore was introduced to the director and hired as an extra for the 1945 film ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (film)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]''.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15536118 |title=Obituary: Sir Roger Moore |date=23 May 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=24 May 2017 |language=en-GB}}</ref> While there, Moore attracted an off-camera female fan following, and Hurst decided to pay Moore's fees at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]. Moore spent three terms at RADA, where he was a classmate of his future Bond co-star [[Lois Maxwell]], the original [[Miss Moneypenny]]. During his time there, he developed the relaxed demeanour that became his screen persona.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|RADA]] in 1945.<ref name="rada">{{cite web |url= https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/roger-moore/ |title=Rada Student & graduate profiles - Roger Moore |work=rada.ac.uk |access-date=21 February 2025}}</ref>

At 18, shortly after the [[End of World War II in Europe|end of the Second World War]], Moore was [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|conscripted]] for [[national service]]. On 21 September 1946 he was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[Royal Army Service Corps]] as a [[second lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37793 |date=19 November 1946 |page=5719 |supp=y}}</ref> He was an officer in the [[Combined Services Entertainment]] section, eventually becoming a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]]<ref name=":1" /> commanding a small depot in [[West Germany]], where he looked after entertainers for the armed forces passing through Hamburg.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.britishforcesbroadcasting.com/cse/how_it_all_began |title=How it all began...|publisher= Combined Services Entertainment |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140304223429/http://www.britishforcesbroadcasting.com/cse/how_it_all_began |archive-date=4 March 2014 |access-date=16 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>