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    • Dalton as Bond. Dalton portrayed Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), the fifteenth and sixteenth entries in the franchise. Unlike Moore, who had played Bond as more of a light-hearted playboy, Dalton's portrayal of Bond was darker and more serious. See more

    BornTimothy Leonard Dalton Leggett · 21 March 1946 · Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales
    Children1
    OccupationActor
    Years active1964–present
    Overview

    Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett is a British actor. He gained international prominence as the fourth actor to portray fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, starring in The Living Daylights (1987) and … See more

    Early life

    Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett was born on 21 March 1946 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to an English father, Peter Dalton Leggett, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second Wo… See more

    Career

    Dalton quickly moved to television, working mainly with the BBC, and in 1968 made his film debut as Philip II of France in The Lion in Winter. This was the first of several period dramas, which included a remake of Wuthering … See more

    Personal life

    Dalton was in a relationship with reporter Kate Adie as a youth, and with English actress Vanessa Redgrave (with whom he appeared in the 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots and the 1979 film Agatha) between 1971 and 1… See more

    Bibliography

    Broccoli, Albert R.; Zec, Donald (1998). When the Snow Melts:The Autobiography of Cubby Broccoli. London, UK: Boxtree. ISBN 978-0-7522-1162-6.
    • Machell, Ben (24 October 2009). "There is more to Oksana Grigorieva t… See more

    External links

    Timothy Dalton at IMDb
    Timothy Dalton at AllMovie
    Timothy Dalton at the BFI's Screenonline
    Dalton bio, pelicanpromotions.com.au; accessed 21 March 2015.… See more

     
  1. Timothy Dalton was originally considered for the role of James Bond in the late 1960s, after Sir Sean Connery left the role, following You Only Live Twice (1967). Dalton was screentested by Albert R. Broccoli for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), but he turned down the part, as he thought he was too young.
    www.imdb.com/title/tt0093428/
    Deeply focused and written with an understanding of the literary character, Timothy Dalton’s turn in Licence to Kill as 007, James Bond, is as piercing as ever. It’s even better than his turn in The Living Daylights and holds the most committed performance from any actor in the 60-year series, a real pièce de résistance of 1980s cinema.
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