Timothy Peter Dalton is a Welsh actor of stage and screen and well known for portraying James Bond in his roles in Shakespearean related films and plays. Timothy Dalton was born on 21st March, 1946 in Colwyn Bay, Wales. One of the most Popular Hollywood Male Actors, Timothy Dalton became interested in acting when he was just in his teens. He left school in the year 1964 to enroll in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and toured with the National Youth Theatre in the summer.
Even though Timothy Dalton did not complete his RADA studies, he left the academy in the year 1966 to join the group of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Soon after he was working in the television with the BBC and in the year 1968, made his first film debut in ‘The Lion in Winter’, the first of several period dramas, which included a remake of the Wuthering Heights in the year 1970 in which he portrayed the tortured Heathcliff. Albert Broccoli asked Dalton to take over for Sean Connery in the role of James Bond in the year 1968, when Timothy Dalton was aged only 22.
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After few more films, Timothy Dalton took a break in 1971 to concentrate on the theatre, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and other troupes round the world. He remained a theatre actor until 1978, with the exception of the 1975 film Permission to Kill. In the same year Timothy Dalton starred in Sextette as the husband of 85-year-old Mae West, hailing his return to cinema and the beginning of his American career. There he mainly worked in television, although he starred in several films including the cult classic Flash Gordon, in which he played the role of Prince Barin and gave outstanding performances for the BBC, particularly as Mr. Rochester in the 1983 miniseries adaptation of Jane Eyre.
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During the second half of the 1990s Timothy Dalton starred in several cable movies, most notably the Irish Republican Army drama ‘The Informant’ and the action thriller ‘Made Me’, besides playing Julius Caesar in the 1999 TV movie Cleopatra. In the year 2007, Timothy Dalton played Simon Skinner in the highly applauded action comedy movie ‘Hot Fuzz’, his most prominent appearance in mainstream cinema for several years.
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