Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett is a British actor.
36 Facts About Timothy Dalton
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Timothy Dalton 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 and Licence to Kill.
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Timothy Dalton took roles in the period films Wuthering Heights, Cromwell, and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Timothy Dalton portrayed Peter Townsend in the fifth season of The Crown.
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Timothy Dalton was born as Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett on 21 March 1946 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to an English father, Peter Dalton Leggett, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War and was an advertising executive at the time of his son's birth; and an American mother, Dorothy Scholes, of Italian and Irish descent.
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Timothy Dalton decided to become an actor at 16 after seeing a production of Macbeth and got a role in a production of the play at The Old Vic.
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Timothy Dalton left school in 1962 at 16 to enrol in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and tour with the National Youth Theatre.
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Timothy Dalton did not complete his RADA studies, leaving the academy in 1966 to join the ensemble of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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Timothy 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.
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Timothy Dalton starred alongside Jonathan Pryce in the film The Doctor and the Devils.
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Timothy Dalton co-starred with Joan Collins in the miniseries, Sins.
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Timothy Dalton was replaced in two films in which he'd been signed to appear.
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Timothy Dalton was offered the role of real-life British Prime Minister William Lamb in the film Lady Caroline Lamb.
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The filmmakers replaced him with Jon Finch at the last moment; Timothy Dalton sued for breach of contract and won an out-of-court settlement.
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In 1985, Timothy Dalton was set to play Don Alfonso de la Torre in Roman Polanski's film Pirates.
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Timothy Dalton co-starred with Anthony Edwards in the 1988 British comedy film Hawks about two terminally ill patients who set off on a road-trip together.
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Timothy Dalton had been considered for the role of James Bond several times.
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Timothy Dalton declined the offer and told the producers that he was too young for the role.
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Since Timothy Dalton was contracted for three Bond films, the pre-production of his third film began in 1990, in order to be released in 1991.
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The legal battle ended in 1993, and Timothy Dalton was expected to return as James Bond in the next Bond film, which later became GoldenEye.
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Timothy Dalton portrayed Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, the fifteenth and sixteenth entries in the franchise.
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Timothy Dalton pushed for renewed emphasis on the gritty realism of Ian Fleming's novels instead of fantasy plots and humour.
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However, Timothy Dalton's films were criticised for their comparative lack of humour.
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Timothy Dalton was nevertheless for a certain period considered to act in the Bond film GoldenEye.
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Timothy Dalton appeared as criminal informant Eddie Myers in the acclaimed British TV film Framed.
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Timothy Dalton had a major part in an episode of the TV series Tales from the Crypt.
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Timothy Dalton played a parody of James Bond named Damian Drake in the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
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Timothy Dalton was first heard in the role narrating a preview clip shown at the 2009 Comic Convention.
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In 2012, Timothy Dalton voiced Lord Milori in Secret of the Wings, as part of the Disney Fairies franchise and the fourth film direct-to-DVD instalment of the Tinker Bell film series.
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From 2014 to 2016, Timothy Dalton portrayed the character Sir Malcolm Murray for three seasons on the Showtime original television series Penny Dreadful.
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Timothy Dalton was in a relationship with reporter Kate Adie as a youth, and with English actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1971 and 1986.
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Timothy Dalton briefly dated actresses Stefanie Powers and Whoopi Goldberg.
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Timothy Dalton was in a relationship with musician Oksana Grigorieva in the 1990s; they met in 1995 while she was employed as a translator for filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov.
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Timothy Dalton and Grigorieva had a son together was born on August 1997 and named Alexander.
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Timothy Dalton has a home in St John's, Antigua and Barbuda.
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Timothy Dalton is a Manchester City FC supporter, and is often seen at the City of Manchester Stadium to watch the team play.