Timothy Dalton Overview:

Actor, Timothy Dalton, was born Timothy Peter Dalton on Mar 21, 1944 in Colwyn Bay, UK. As of December 2023, Timothy Dalton was 79 years old.

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As James Bond--Part Two

By Dan Day Jr. on Oct 7, 2012 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

's next James Bond film, LICENCE TO KILL(1989), was supposed to be more in line with Dalton's tougher, more serious Bond. The story is straight out of a 1980's action movie playbook: Bond's best friend Felix Leiter has been mutilated by an evil drug lord, and Bond seeks revenge. The t... Read full article


As James Bond--Part One

By Dan Day Jr. on Oct 3, 2012 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

After 1985's A VIEW TO A KILL, it was pretty obvious that Roger Moore's time as James Bond needed to come to an end. Moore was getting too old to play the part, and his version of Bond didn't seem to work anymore. Albert Broccoli and his EON Productions made the decision to cast a new actor in the r... Read full article


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Timothy Dalton Quotes:

Philip II: A king like you has policy prepared on everything: well, what's the official line on sodomy? How stands the Crown on boys who do with boys?
Henry II: Richard finds his way into so many legends; let's hear yours and see how it compares.
Philip II: Well, he found me first when I was 15. We were hunting; it was nearly dark; my horse fell; I was thrown. I woke to Richard touching me. He asked me if I loved him: 'Philip, do you love me?' And I told him yes. Do you know why I told him yes? So that one day I could tell you all about it. You cannot imagine what that 'yes' cost. Imagine snuggling to a chancred whore, and bending back your lips into something like a smile saying, 'yes, I love you, and I find you
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Philip II: beautiful.' I don't know how I did it.


Philip II: I'm not a boy!


Henry II: I want to reach a settlement. I left you with too little earlier,
Philip II: Yes, nothing is too little.


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Timothy Dalton Facts
In mid 1986, he and Sylvester McCoy were performing together with Vanessa Redgrave in a season of Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Dalton and McCoy sympathised with each other about the difficulty in finding good long-term acting jobs. A year later, McCoy was cast as the Seventh Doctor in "Doctor Who" (1963) and Dalton was cast as James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987).

Played Lord Asrail in a London stage adaptation of the His Dark Materials trilogy. In the film The Golden Compass (2007), this role is played by Daniel Craig, who also succeeded him in the role of James Bond.

Desmond Llewelyn claimed in an interview of Dalton that his portrayal of "James Bond" was closer to Ian Fleming's original novel version of the character than any other Bond actor.

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