The Saint, differences

I found it interesting that Roger Moore (1927/1962) and Ian Ogilvy (1943/1978) were the same age, 35 when they took up playing Simon Templar. I thought about what it was that makes the former so much more embraced/believable (though not entirely since it's fiction of course) than the latter, and realized that there was a little thing called WWII (1939-1945) intervening that would have had a far more significant effect on the former than the latter (the latter not really having actually LIVED through it at the age of 2). There's also the significant effect of post '40s (yes even in the '50s "Father Knows Best" era if one has eyes to see) narcissism & ego and thus corruption that would have affected Ian's age more (knowing it first-hand as 11 years his junior, 1954), not that Sir Roger's was much more of a "saint" (pun intended). You can be sure that Sir Roger's 1960s concept of opposing "the ungodly" he mentioned a few times (I've seen every episode from S1E01 The Talented Husband to S6E20 The World Beater within the past 6-12 months) would have never passed the "liberal" censors of Ian's 1978-1979 day, part of their coverup where the inmates have taken over the asylum in their ironically intolerant assault on alleged "intolerance" (which of course means anyone who believes in reality and truth and thus disagrees with their delusional fascist revisionist history only sustained by drinking the koolaid, worse than alcoholics who blame others for their condition. I've enjoyed Ian's episodes, but it's somewhat obvious that Roger's Simon Templar will never really be in danger of overthrow as the definitive "Saint." I loved his recent part as Duke Edward of Castlebury Hall (A Princess For Christmas) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083448/ though it was a shock to consider there's a bit of a difference of a half-century between beloved Simon at ~35 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055701/) and beloved Edward at ~85 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083448/) who's appeared more in the past two years (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000549/) than dear Ian has in the past decade (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644707/)!