Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh born English actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries "Scarlett" (1994), an original sequel to Gone with the Wind. In addition, Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights" (1970), Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre" (1983) and his portrayals in Shakespearean films and plays, as leads in "R...
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Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh born English actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries "Scarlett" (1994), an original sequel to Gone with the Wind. In addition, Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights" (1970), Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre" (1983) and his portrayals in Shakespearean films and plays, as leads in "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", "Henry V", "Love's Labours Lost” and "Henry IV".
Dalton was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to an American mother of Italian and Irish descent, and an English father, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive during World War II and had become an advertising executive at the time of his son's birth. Before his fourth birthday, the family returned to England to Belper, Derbyshire. While in Belper, he attended the Herbert Strutt Grammar School. As a teenager, he was a member of the Air Cadets; however, at...
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