D < > Janet Dale Timothy Dalton Charles Dance The Dance of Death Ron Daniels The Danton Affair Nick Darke Daughter of the Air Shaun Davey Alan David Howard Davies Rudi Davies Daniel Day-Lewis Days in the Trees Days of the Commune The Dead Monkey Nick Dear Deathwatch/The Maids Thomas Dekker Robert Delamere A Delicate Balance Frances de la Tour Robert Demeger Jeffery Dench Judi Dench The Desert Air Desire Under the Elms Destiny The Devil is an Ass The Devil's Disciple The Devils Ann Devlin Es Devlin Mark Dignam Stephen Dillane The Dillen Lisa Dillon Dingo The Dispute Divine Gossip Joe Dixon Doctor Faustus Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Dog in the Manger Monica Dolan A Doll's House Don Carlos Donmar Warehouse Declan Donnellan Gregory Doran Simon Dormandy Roy Dotrice John Dougall Wayne Dowdeswell Downchild Penny Downie Kevin Doyle A Dream of People Dreamplay Amanda Drew Darrell D'Silva Kate Duchêne The Duchess of Malfi Duck Song William Dudley The Dumb Waiter Lindsay Duncan Jeremy Dunn Marguerite Duras Friedrich Dürrenmatt Susan Dury Dutch Uncle The Dybbuk Charles Dyer Chris Dyer		Timothy Dalton Timothy Dalton has found it impossible to avoid a career dominated by period dramas, literary adaptations and the phoney glamour of the American television 'mini-series' format. He has brought his own individuality to popular roles that no longer generate excitement. He is rightly considered a stage actor despite a paucity of stage appearances. He was born in Wales (where his father was stationed during the war) and brought up in Derbyshire. He toured with the National Youth Theatre (1964-66) while training at RADA and quickly found work in the theatre (Arthur in A Game Called Arthur at the Royal Court, 1966; Richard III among other roles at the Birmingham Rep, 1966), on television (the series Sat'day While Sunday, 1966, with Malcolm McDowell), and in features—Philip II in The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968); Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (Robert Fuest, 1970); Prince Rupert in Cromwell (Ken Hughes, 1970); Lord Henry Darnley in Mary, Queen of Scots (Charles Jarrott, 1971); Charles Lord in Permission to Kill (1975); Sir Michael Barrington in Sextette (Hughes, 1978); Archibald Christie in Agatha (Michael Apted, 1979); and Prince Barin in Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, 1980). On the stage, Dalton first appeared with the RSC in 1973, as Romeo (Terry Hands) and Costard in Love's Labour's Lost (David Jones). He played Edmund in King Lear, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, Hal in Henry IV and Henry V for the Prospect Theatre Company (1972-74); Byron in The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet at the Old Vic (1977); Antony to Carmen Du Sautoy's Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Rome at the Mermaid Theatre (Bernard Miles and Ron Pember, 1981); a fine Hotspur in the RSC's Henry IV at the Barbican (Trevor Nunn, 1982); Antony and Petruchio to Vanessa Redgrave's Cleopatra and Kate at the Theatr Clwyd (Toby Robertson, 1986); Cornelius to Redgrave's Nora in Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet at the Young Vic (David Thacker, 1988); and, ending a fifteen-year gap, Lord Asriel in His Dark Materials at the National (Nicholas Hytner, Olivier, 2004). Twice approached to play James Bond in the past, he finally accepted in the mid-1980s. He introduced real acting into his two films as 007, The Living Daylights (John Glen, 1987) and Licence to Kill (Glen, 1989), but they performed below expectations at the box office. He has continued to seek diversity, mixing second division American movies with quirkier work: a terminally ill patient in Hawks (Robert Ellis Miller, 1989); the villain in The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston, 1991); an English gangster under arrest, a study in arrogance and predatory charm, in Lynda La Plante's television thriller Framed (Geoffrey Sax, ITV, 1993); Rhett Butler in the mini-series Scarlett (1994); Elliot in Naked in New York (Daniel Algrant, 1994); Salt Water Moose (Stuart Margolin, 1996); Edith Wharton's The Reef (Robert Allan Ackerman, 1997); The Informant (Jim McBride, 1997); The Beautician and the Beast (Ken Kwapis, 1997); Time Share (2000); American Outlaws (2001); Looney Tunes, Back in Action (2003); Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (ITV, 2006); Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007).	Actor, b. Colwyn Bay, Wales, 1946 Education: RADA RSC: Joined 1973 Seasons: 1973 (Strat.); 1982 (Lond.)
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