David Hedison Felix Leiter in two James Bond films, "Live and Let Die" and "Licence to Kill". Hedison decided he wanted to be an actor after he saw Tyrone Power in the film "Blood and Sand". Hedison enlisted in the United States Navy in 1945, but the war ended before he completed basic training. He served 18 months, then mustered out. He began his acting career with the Sock and Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and with Lee Strasberg at the
David Hedison Secret Planet" and "Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk ". He then wrote an introduction to the James Bond comic "The Paradise Plot" that was released in the United States on July 8. In 2006 and 2007, Hedison worked on four audio books. The first, "McKnight's Memory", was first released in October 2007. The second, "The King, McQueen and the Love Machine", was released June 15, 2008. The third project was a 12-minute introduction to the reissue of "The James Bond Lifestyle" that came out June 7, 2007. His fourth audio book project, "The Casino Caper", was released in August