Timothy Dalton Timothy Dalton Timothy Dalton (; born Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett; 21 March 1946) is a Welsh born British actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in "The Living Daylights" (1987) and "Licence to Kill" (1989), as well as Mr. Rochester in "Jane Eyre" (1983), Rhett Butler in the television miniseries "Scarlett" (1994), and Simon Skinner in "Hot Fuzz" (2007). Dalton was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, to an English father, Peter Dalton Leggett, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War and was an advertising executive at the time of his
James Bond filmography long in the tooth", and in December 2007 admitted that he "was only about four hundred years too old for the part". Like Connery, Moore appeared as Bond in seven films; by the time he retired in 1985, he was the oldest actor to play 007 in the Eon series, and his Bond films had earned over at the box office. With the retirement of Roger Moore in 1985, a search for a new actor to play Bond took place that saw a number of actors, including Sam Neill, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton, audition for the role in 1986.