When he was filming Gold in mines in Johannesburg in South Africa, his nipples started to hurt and turned a dark-gray color. Warts are usually caused by a virus called HPV, often acquired from close contact with another infected person Moore recounts having a wart removed from the inside of his nose, diagnosed by a doctor who was treating Moore’s son on a boat off Portofino.
As a result, he restricted fruits and vegetables and ate more meat and bakery products that made him gain even more weight, which increased his chances of forming plaques in his arteries and suffering heart damage. Evidently the kidney stones were made up of primarily oxalates, so his doctors told him to avoid oxalates in fruits and vegetables such as strawberries, spinach and chocolate. He suffered two more severe attacks of kidney stones while filming other movies. In 1961, at age 34, he was filming Gold Of The Seven Saints in the desert and had to have stones removed surgically. He suffered through three major bouts of extremely painful kidney stones. Moore related, “It turned my stomach and I decided it was time to stop smoking cigarettes.” However, he continued to smoke cigars for several more years. Curtis responded by handing him a horrible picture of a lung that was destroyed by smoking. He asked his co-star, Tony Curtis, for an ashtray. Moore was a heavy smoker until he began filming The Persuaders in 1971. In his later years he was unable to fit into any of the clothing he kept from his James Bond days. At various times in his life, he tried tennis, walking, golf and swimming. each day and did calisthenics at his home, but he hurt his back and had to stop his exercise program. We now know that constant use of amphetamines can increase risk for heart disease and high blood pressure. He soon realized that he had become addicted to them and needed to stop taking them. To help control his weight, he asked his doctor for an appetite suppressant and was given amphetamines, which gave him extra energy. By his thirties, he gained a lot of weight because he regularly ate bacon rolls for breakfast, steak-and-kidney pie for lunch and lots of buns at tea time. Moore was 6’1″ but was a chubby teenager and had to watch his weight all his life. He was also a childhood sexual abuse victim, but did not tell his mother about it until he was 16 years old because he was ashamed that it happened to him. He had not been circumcised as an infant, so when he complained (at age eight) that his penis was sore, the doctors treated the infection by removing his foreskin. The appendix helps your intestines to recover their normal bacterial flora after you have had an infection or take antibiotics. Now, we know that these tissues serve a useful purpose in helping to kill invading germs. He later said that his father sold his motorbike in order to pay the medical bills.Īt that time, many infections were treated with surgery so he had his tonsils, adenoids and appendix removed. The doctor told his parents that he would have a death certificate with him when he returned in the morning, but that night the high fever dropped and Moore recovered.
Since antibiotics were not yet available, he was treated with thick creams and wraps that were applied to his chest. In 1932, at age five, he developed pneumonia in both lungs and was too sick to be moved to a hospital. He had measles, mumps and chicken pox as did most children in the pre-vaccine years. Moore was brought up in the early 1930s before antibiotics and legislated childhood immunizations, so many of the medical treatments he received as a child would not be done today. I do not have access to his medical records, but he wrote extensively about his health and various diseases in four autobiographical books, including My Word is My Bond (2008) and One Lucky Bastard (2014). He died on at age 89, after many years of medical problems and unhealthful lifestyle habits. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 and in 2008, the French government appointed him a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. In 1991, he was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for his work in helping underprivileged children. Roger Moore was an English film and television star who was most famous for having played secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985.
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