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==Illness and death== Moore had a series of diseases during his childhood, including [[chickenpox]], [[measles]], [[mumps]],<ref name=gordonworst>{{cite news |last=Gordon |first=Bryony|title=Sir Roger Moore: I'm the worst James Bond, they say|work=The Telegraph|date=24 September 2008 |access-date=23 May 2017 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3070578/Im-the-worst-James-Bond-they-say.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3070578/Im-the-worst-James-Bond-they-say.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[double pneumonia]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/sep/29/roger-moore-my-family-values|title=Roger Moore: My family values|first=Nick|last=McGrath|date=28 September 2012|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> and [[jaundice]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Chase|first=Chris|title=At the Movies: Roger Moore is anybody's replacement|work=The New York Times |date=26 June 1981|access-date=23 May 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/26/movies/at-the-movies-roger-moore-is-anybody-s-replacement.html}}</ref> and had his [[Appendix (anatomy)|appendix]], [[tonsil]]s, and [[adenoid]]s removed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Roger Moore: 'It's all a bit of a joke' |date=14 November 2008 |access-date=23 May 2017 |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/719272/Roger-Moore-Its-all-a-bit-of-a-joke |work=Sunday Star Times}}</ref> Moore was a long-term sufferer of [[Kidney stone disease|kidney stones]]<ref>{{cite news|last=McKay|first=Sinclair|title=Review: Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond by Roger Moore|work=The Telegraph|date=11 October 2008|access-date=24 May 2017 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3561968/Review-Roger-Moore-My-Word-Is-My-Bond-by-Roger-Moore.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3561968/Review-Roger-Moore-My-Word-Is-My-Bond-by-Roger-Moore.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |postscript=none}}{{cbignore}}; {{cite news |title=Bond star Sir Roger Moore gets asked strange stuff|work=Newsbeat|publisher=BBC News|date=30 March 2015 |access-date=24 May 2017 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32118469/bond-star-sir-roger-moore-gets-asked-strange-stuff}}</ref> and as a result was briefly hospitalised during the making of ''Live and Let Die'' in 1973<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Roger|title=Roger Moore As James Bond: Roger Moore's Own Account of Filming 'Live and Let Die' |location=London|publisher=Pan Books |date=1973|isbn=9780330236539 |pages=15, 46}}</ref> and again whilst filming the 1979 film ''Moonraker''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Roger |title=Bond on Bond: Reflections on 50 Years of James Bond Movies |location=Guilford, Conn. |publisher=Lyons Press |date=2012 |isbn=9780762782819 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWVBBAAAQBAJ |page=141}}</ref> Whilst filming the boat chase in Live and Let Die, Moore crashed a speedboat and suffered a fractured tooth and concussion. During filming for [[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]], Moore suffered burns on his buttocks during a chair explosion stunt. In 1993 Moore was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] and underwent successful treatment for the disease.<ref>{{cite news |last=France |first=Lisa|title=Roger Moore, '007' actor, dies at 89|work=CNN|date=23 May 2017 |access-date=23 May 2017 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/entertainment/roger-moore-dies/}}</ref> In 2003 Moore collapsed on stage while appearing on Broadway,<ref>{{cite news|title=Roger Moore collapses on stage|work=The Guardian |date=9 May 2003 |access-date=23 May 2017|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/09/arts.artsnews1}}</ref> and was fitted with a [[Artificial cardiac pacemaker|pacemaker]] to treat a potentially deadly slow heartbeat.<ref name=TelegAug14/> He was diagnosed with [[type 2 diabetes]] in 2013.<ref name=TelegAug14/> Some years before his final cancer illness, a tumour spot was found in his liver. Then, in 2017, during the period that he was treated for cancer, he fell, badly injuring his [[Clavicle|collarbone]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Roger Moore โ Nobody Does It Better|publisher=BBC Radio 2|date=26 December 2017 |access-date=8 January 2018 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jqwns}}</ref><ref name="aww17"/> [[File:The grave of Roger Moore in Monaco Cemetery 2 memolands (51511361870).jpg|thumb|upright|right|alt=In the middle of a row of white vertical memorials, each about 1 metre wide, and with a horizontal marble shelf before each, a marker with "Sir Roger MOORE", the date "1927โ2017", and "Loving Father & Husband", below which is "Our True Saint". Several flower pots and candles are on the shelf for Moore and his neighbours. To the left of Moore's marker is one with a stone plaque labelled "Moore Family", with a coat of arms in blue with gold.|The grave of Roger Moore in Monaco Cemetery]] Moore died in the presence of his family at his home in [[Crans-Montana]], [[Switzerland]], on 23 May 2017, from [[cancers]] of the lung and liver.<ref name="aww17">{{cite news |title=Roger Moore's daughter โ My kind, naughty, funny dad |url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/australian-womens-weekly-nz/20171109/282278140604495 |access-date=7 June 2021 |work=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |date=9 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40018422|title=Sir Roger Moore, James Bond actor, dies at age 89|work=BBC News|date=23 May 2017|access-date=23 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/i/web/status/867005447018086400 |title=Family tweet re death of Sir Roger Moore|website= Twitter.com|date= 23 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="nzz">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/roger-moore-ein-schweizer-werbestar-ld.1296310|title=Ein Schweizer Werbestar | NZZ|newspaper=Neue Zรผrcher Zeitung |date=24 May 2017 }}</ref> He was buried in [[Monaco Cemetery]].<ref name="nzz"/>
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