Permission To Kill

Synopsis

Alan Curtis (Dirk Bogarde) soft spoken, polite, quietly dressed looks and sounds like Mr Average - until he is crossed. He shows an identity card which says he is from Western Intelligence Liaison. His assignment is to prevent an exciled politician from returning to his dictator-led country to restore freedom.

Timothy's Role in Permission to Kill

Timothy as Charles Lord in Permission to Kill.

Timothy plays Englishman Charles Lord who is a good looking dedicated personal assistant to a Foreign Office dignitary. Who Curtis recruits to help him.

An interview with Timothy, which was conducted when he was shooting Permission to Kill.

Timothy Dalton the young English actor with a classical background of note, finally gets a chance to appear on screen in modern dress in Permission To Kill Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner co-star.

Dalton's previous film's were The Lion in Winter, Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell, Wuthering Heights, and in each of them he was an historic character in period clothes. He was the King of France in The Lion in Winter, Lord Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots, and Prince Rupert in Cromwell.

Just before he started work in Permission to Kill, Dalton achieved a vastly successful portrayal of Henry V with the Prospect Theatre Company at London's Roundhouse.

Coming to Austria for the film Dalton remarked on the remarkable good life that acting is.

"Also there aren't many businesses in which you get paid to travel and enjoy the life of the country you're visiting. On my free days in this film I've been learning how to ski, something I would never have done, probably, if it hadn't been for this role and this location."

He also did some of his own stunt work, including a fall down a 60-foot precipice and a plunge into an icy mountain stream. "Over a sustained period of time," he observed, "film acting can very hard work."

An actor and purveyor of dreams, Dalton is nonetheless an practical man "Where are you without being practical?" he asks. "We can all see a lovely view and appreciate the beauty of it but try painting it. We all have great ideas for novels or plays but ultimately it is the communication of those ideas, the writing, that is difficult. Work is about the doing, not the dreaming."

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