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• Born: 21 March 1946
• Birthplace: Colwyn Bay, Wales
• Best Known As: James Bond in the 1987 film The Living Daylights

A lean, hard-edged leading man of stage and screen, Timothy Dalton is best known for playing movie superspy James Bond. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he first appeared on film with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter (1968). Two decades later Dalton followed Roger Moore in the role of Bond, playing Agent 007 in The Living Daylights (1987). After a second Bond film, License to Kill (1989, with Wayne Newton), he stepped down and was followed in turn by Pierce Brosnan.

Dalton played Rhett Butler in the 1994 TV miniseries Scarlett.

• Born: Mar 21, 1946 in Colwyn Bay, North Wales
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '70s-2000s
• Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Career Highlights: The Lion in Winter, The Rocketeer, Mary, Queen of Scots
• First Major Screen Credit: The Lion in Winter (1968)

Biography

Welsh actor Timothy Dalton has excelled in roles calling for both panache and psychological complexity. His stage training has included stints at the National Youth Theatre, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the star-making Birmingham Repertory. Dalton's extensive work in the classics with the Royal Shakespeare Company led to his being cast as King Philip of France in the film The Lion in Winter (1968). In 1971, Dalton appeared in Mary, Queen of Scots, simultaneously launching a lengthy romantic involvement with that film's star, Vanessa Redgrave. When Roger Moore quit the James Bond film series in 1986, it looked for a while as though his successor would be television star Pierce Brosnan; instead, the Bond producers made the eleventh-hour decision to cast Dalton as secret agent 007 in The Living Daylights. Though dashing in a tuxedo and more than willing to perform his own stunts, Dalton was more effectively felt in the role of the dastardly movie swashbuckler-cum-Nazi spy in the breezy sci-fi film The Rocketeer (1991). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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