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Roger Moore stars in Monday’s new ABC suspense-drama “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die,” in which he plays a former mystery writer, one of whose books appears to have provided the modus operandi for a real-life killer. Here’s a quiz on some of the actor’s other credits:

QUESTIONS

1) What was the name of the cousin Moore played on the classic western series “Maverick”?

2) Moore spent several years playing author Leslie Charteris’ “The Saint” on television, but what was the character’s actual name?

3) Who was Moore’s co-star in the British-made series “The Persuaders”?

4) What was Moore’s first James Bond movie?

5) In the 1981 car-race comedy “The Cannonball Run”, who did Moore play?

6) The 1976 TV-movie “Sherlock Holmes in New York” found another actor who became famous as a TV sleuth playing Dr. Watson to Moore’s Holmes…and he also appeared as James Bond’s right-hand man in Moore’s last James Bond picture, “A View to a Kill” (1985). Name that performer.

ANSWERS

1) Beauregard, known commonly as “Beau”.

2) Simon Templar.

3) Tony Curtis.

4) “Live and Let Die” (1973).

5) Himself.

6) Patrick Macnee, alias John Steed on “The Avengers.”