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Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (born March 21, 1946) is a British actor. He gained international prominence as the fourth actor to portray fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, starring in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989). Beginning his career on stage, he made his film debut as Philip II of France in the 1968 historical drama The Lion in Winter. He took roles in the period films Wuthering Heights (1970), Cromwell (1970), and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). Dalton also appeared in the films Flash Gordon (1980), The Rocketeer (1991), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The Tourist (2010). On television, Dalton played Mr. Rochester in the BBC serial Jane Eyre (1983), Rhett Butler in the CBS miniseries Scarlett (1994), Rassilon in the BBC One sci-fi series Doctor Who (2009–2010), Sir Malcolm Murray on the Showtime horror drama Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), and the Chief on the DC Universe / HBO Max superhero series Doom Patrol (2019–2021). He portrayed Peter Townsend in the fifth season of The Crown.
He divided his kingdom between his daughters based on how much they said they loved him. Only one loved him too much to lie. He banished her. This is what followed. The fullest, most unsparing adaptation of King Lear — the play that many critics consider Shakespeare's greatest and his most demanding. Set in the mythic pre-Roman Britain of the text, rendered in the visual language of Iron Age Britain — wild, weathered, spectacular, stripped of romantic medieval softness. The film does not flinch from the play's darkness: this is the play in which a daughter dies for no reason except the specific cruelty of the world, in which an old man's eyes are gouged out on stage, in which goodness is not rewarded and evil is not satisfyingly punished. The storm scene is the film's centerpiece — shot on actual location, Lear genuinely in the rain for the sequence, the scene given its full forty minutes of screen time. Act One — The Division The court in its full power. The love-test. Cordelia's refusal. The banishment. The specific moment when everything begins to collapse. Act Two — The Storm Lear on the heath. The storm sequence — the film's central forty minutes. 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks.' Act Three — The Parallel Gloucester's betrayal, blinding, and Dover journey alongside Lear's madness. The film's most formally intricate section. Act Four — The Ending Cordelia's return. The reconciliation. The final battle. 'Never, never, never, never, never.'
