Liking an actor, but not liking his movies

[betweensunandmoon]

I like Timothy Dalton. I have not yet seen him in anything I really enjoyed. I know everyone raves about The Lion in Winter, but I thought it was too slow-paced and the ending was anticlimactic. The Living Daylights was slightly better, but I regard the James Bond movies as tolerable at best and painful ordeals at worst. You already know my opinion on The Rocketeer.

The rest of his filmography does not look particularly promising. Alas.

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Excuse me - saw this on Latest Things

[nodrog]

T Dalton's big problem was always Playing Other Actor's Roles.  Rhett Butler, James Bond - even, as you say, Errol Flynn.  It's hard to be taken seriously when you're always pinch-hitting.  This may be why he played 'Prince Barin' in Flash Gordon way too seriously - it was at least an original role and he was determined to make it count…

[igenlode]

My main association of him was with the James Bond films, where he was *so much better* than whoever it was that was doing the role previously... I liked him in "Flash Gordon", too.

(Apparently he was in Mae West's "Sextette", but I don't remember him in that!)

Prince Rupert (alongside Alec Guinness as Charles I) sounds like an interesting role, but I haven't seen the film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065593/

Apart from that -- basically, I loved him as James Bond, and that was enough to leave a lasting favourable impression of charisma, brains and good bone structure ;-)