Timothy Dalton

Timothy Dalton doesn't get nearly enough credit for what he did with James Bond, and honestly that bothers me. When he stepped into the role with The Living Daylights in 1987, he brought a raw, Shakespearean intensity that had been missing from the franchise for years — this was a Bond who actually felt dangerous, not just suave. Licence to Kill pushed it even further, getting genuinely dark in ways the series wouldn't revisit until Daniel Craig. But beyond Bond, Dalton had serious stage chops before any of that, and you can feel it in how he inhabits a scene. He was trained, deliberate, committed. The fact that legal disputes between the Bond producers cut his run short to just two films feels like one of cinema's quiet injustices. He gave us a glimpse of something real, and then it was gone.

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Name (English)

Timothy Dalton

Name (Japanese)

ティモシー・ダルトン

Reading

てぃもしー・だるとん

Born

March 21, 1946 (age 80)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dog

Origin

Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom

Height

188 cm

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / television actor / actor

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Dalton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41233

Tags

• film actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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