Former Bexley resident Sir Roger Moore has died in Switzerland aged 89 after a battle with cancer.

A message shared on the actor’s Twitter account read: “With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated.

“It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer.

"The love with which he was surrounded in his final days was so great it cannot be quantified in words alone."

Sir Roger moved to Bexley when he married his second wife in 1953 and lived at St Mary's Mount in Wansunt Road for a number of years.

In an interview with News Shopper in 2014, he said: “I lived in Bexley for a large number of years. I don’t think today I would recognise everything. Everything has been built up. Our house at St Mary’s Mount has gone. I’ve got no idea what they have put there.

“I remember I could walk back from the station if I caught a late train from London. I would just walk across the fields and the graveyard and into my back garden.

“That was about a mile walk and there were no houses at all."

The Bond star played the secret agent a record seven times between 1978’s Live and Let Die and 1985’s A View to a Kill.

In a statement given by his family, it is confirmed there will be a private funeral in Monaco in accordance with the actor’s wishes.

The statement read: “We know our own love and admiration will be magnified across the world by people who knew him for his films, his television shows and his passionate work for UNICEF which he considered to be his greatest achievement.”

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