On this day today in 2017, we sadly lost one of our most beloved actors. He may have had the golden looks of a matinée idol playing the love-and-leave-them James Bond, but Roger Moore was always an absolute gentleman, especially off-screen.

Numerous Bond Girls have paid fond and sometimes grateful tribute to how he looked after them while filming and behind the scenes.

A young Jane Seymour was making her big screen breakthrough as Solitaire, opposite the eyebrow-arching icon in 1973’s Live…