Sophisticated, fun and above all a gentleman

TANYA ROBERTS: A View To A Kill (Stacey Sutton) 1985

IT WAS his seventh Bond movie and my first but he showed me the ropes and told me how things were done.

I’d been an Angel in the final season of Charlie’s Angels on TV, so a Bond movie was a major leap for me. I was nervous but Roger did everything to make me feel like I belonged, an equal and not out of my depth. We spent two long days filming a scene in an elevator shaft on fire, with flames coming up beneath us, stuck in a cramped, hot space together, but his sense of humour never left him.

He was very good-looking with beautiful features and a gorgeous low voice. All very appealing. But above all, he was a real gentleman – sophisticated and fun, with a very positive energy. I’ll miss him.