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Timothy Dalton ACTOR

TIMOTHY DALTON BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Timothy Dalton was born on March 21st, 1944 in Colwyn Bay, Wales with the middle name Peter. He was the oldest of five children, born to Dorothy and Peter Leggit Dalton. In the late 1940's, his family relocated to Manchester. During Dalton's early educational years, he excelled in sports and from a young age, developed an interest in acting.

At the age of sixteen he left Herbert Strutt Grammar School and joined the Michael Croft's National Youth Theater. He then continued pursuing acting by enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for almost two years.

Dalton was then given the chance to join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and he worked on a number of stage productions. Soon he decided to try and break into the television industry.

Some of his early television series roles were on, "Judge Dee" (1969), "Sat'day While Sunday" (1967) and such television movies as, "The Three Princes" (1968), "Five Finger Exercise" (1970) and "Candida" (1973).

Timothy also began to add a number of film credits to his resume appearing on such features as, "Wuthering Heights" (1970), "Cromwell" (1970), "The Voyeur" (1970) and "Mary, Queen of Scots" (1971).

Dalton then decided to put television and film on hold for a bit and returned to stage acting signing with the Royal Shakespeare company as well as the Prospect Company, performing in such plays as, "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", "Henry V", "Love's Labours Lost" and "Henry IV".

He returned back to acting with a roles on the films, "The Executioner" (1975), "The Man Who Knew Love" (1978), "Sextette" (1978) and "Centennial" (1978). Other highly successful film roles followed such as, "Flash Gordon" (1980), "Chanel Solitaire" (1981), "The Doctor and the Devils" (1985) and two James Bond films, "The Living Daylights" (1987) and "Licence to Kill" (1989).

Along with his return to films he continued to add numerous television credits to his resume on such series as, "Jane Eyre", "Faerie Tale Theater", "Sins", "Tales from the Crypt", "Framed" and he portrayed, Rhett Butler in the eight-hour mini-series, "Scarlett".

While the third "Bond" film was on hold, he continued working on television, film and even returned to the stage on occasion. He appeared in the film, "The King's Whore" (1990), "Salt Water Moose" (1996), "The Informant" (1997), "Passion's Way" (1999), "Timeshare" (2000), "American Outlaw" (2001), "Hot Fuzz" (2007) and "The Tourist" (2010).

He had decided not to participate in the 3rd James Bond film which had changed it's title to, "Golden Eye" after witnessing too many legal issues between MGM and the film's producers. He was later replaced by Pierce Brosnan and Dalton went on working other projects.

Dalton has also used his voice for numerous voice over projects such as on the films, "Toy Story 3" and the television series, "Stories from My Childhood" as well as the short films, "Small Fry" and "Hawaiian Vacation".

He has one child from a relationship with Oksana Grigorieva and remains un-married fathering no other children besides his one son Alexander.

Filmography

2013 Ivan the Fool

2012 Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings

2011 Small Fry

2010-2011 Chuck

2011 Hawaiian Vacation

2010 The Tourist

2010 Toy Story 3: The Video Game

2010 Toy Story 3

2009-2010 Doctor Who

2008 Unknown Sender

2007 Hot Fuzz