Jack Lord in "", which has run daily at Colonial Williamsburg since then. In 1958, Lord co-starred as Buck Walden in "God's Little Acre", the film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel. Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, "Dr. No". According to screenwriter Richard Maibaum, Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the role in "Goldfinger", which resulted in director Guy Hamilton casting Cec Linder in the role. In 1962, Lord starred as series namesake "Stoney Burke", a rodeo cowboy
David Hedison Actors Studio. He acted at Newport Casino Theatre. In 1951 he won a Barter Theatre Award for most promising young actor, entitling him to work at a theatre in Virginia. He did radio in North Carolina and worked on stage in Pittsburgh. His work on the New York stage includes an appearance in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1952). He was studying with Uta Hagen who recommended him for a role in the Broadway production of "A Month in the Country" (1956), directed by Michael Redgrave. It ran for 48 performances on Broadway. The Theatre World declared Hedison as one of