![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: March 21, 1946 in Colwyn Bay, North Wales Biography:British 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,... Full Biography
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