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
Felix Leiter best Leiter next to Rik Van Nutter." Hedison returned to play Leiter sixteen years later in "Licence to Kill" and after another actor had also been in the role. Hedison did not expect to return to the role, saying "I was sure that ... ["Live and Let Die"] would be my first – and last" and Glen was reluctant to cast the 61-year-old actor, since the role even had a scene parachuting. Hedison was the only actor to play Leiter twice until Jeffrey Wright appeared in both "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace". Leiter, now working with the DEA, is