This put a smile on my face.

[billryan]

I've just seen this anecdote on Facebook and have stolen it to share with you all here. I didn't write it, the piece belongs, I believe, to a Marc Haynes;
 
As an seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" 
As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.
I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.
Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.
And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

Rest in Peace.

[Casino Knight]

Solid Gold.

[Galeygoo]

What a heartwarming emotional story/tribute.  Thanks for sharing that with us, BR.

[edog743]

That story put a smile on my face. RIP 007. Also thank you for sharing BR.

[Come Back Kid]

That is a great story Bill, thank you!

R.I.P Roger Moore

[Tedlark]

He made a great Simon Templar too, nice story BR.

[pokerforme]

Thank you for posting this, fantastic! RIP

[jetermacaw]

Great story, more of present day Hollywood should act like that😎

[DaBurglar]

Anyone remember seeing him in "The WIld Geese"?    That was a decent action flick and he was good.....Also, anyone recall seeing him in the classic "Cannonball Run" with Burt Reynolds, which I think was the top selling movie of 1981 due in no small part to its ensemble case?   His character's name & background was hillarious:  He was undergarment tycoon "Seymour Goldfarb", the owner of  the massively large and wealthy "Goldfarb Girdles" but in the movie he constantly identified himself as the actor "ROGER MOORE", a self-parody within the actual movie.....anyone remember that?    It is indeed sad they do not make such entertaining quality films like that anymore, just stupid obscene dreck these days!

[Tedlark]

Are you saying that Cannonball Run was not stupid?