This person died in 2017 at age 89. Early on, he expressed interest in becoming a commercial artist, and as a teenager worked at an animation company. He had a cameo in “The Cannonball Run” run in 1981, the car race comedy starring Burt Reynolds. Though he was not American, he was well known to American audiences. He played James Bond in seven films, and was the oldest Bond ever hired for the official series. Today’s dead celebrity is Roger Moore.
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