Sir Roger Moore considered his favourite role to be in North Sea Hijack. The likes of The Saint, Bond, and the 1974 film Gold, Moore's characters were womanising characters. But, in North Sea Hijack, he was a bachelor, who didn't care for pomp and ceremony. And the fact that Moore was cast in that role was proof that he wasn't being typecast.
As a child growing up in the 80s, he was the Bond of my era and I remember staying up late and taping the movie premier of A View To A Kill on Anglia, way back then the film was interrupted half way through by the news at 10 and the regional news, which was common practice at the time - seems incredible these days.
But to me though, he will always be my favourite Bond, but also the era of the Bond films themselves were perhaps slightly sillier and less serious - nearly everything which has come after takes itself way too seriously. I can't even watch a modern Bond film, they're just so generic. Roger Moore's Bond had personality.
Live and Let Die was the first ever film I saw at the cinema. Summer 1973, I was staying with my grandmother for the week, and was watching Granada's Clapperboard, children's film magazine programme. They showed a clip, and my grandmother asked if I wanted to see it. Next day we did, ironically at a Granada cinema! She fell asleep about 2 minutes in, but I throughly enjoyed it.