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 the most promising theatre personalities of the 1955-56 season. Hedison also appeared on TV in "Kraft Theatre" and "Star Tonight". After his role in "A Month in the Country", Hedison signed a film contract with 20th Century-Fox in May 1957. His first movie with them was the classic war film "The Enemy Below" (1957), which also starred Robert Mitchum. He followed that up with the lead role in the horror classic "The Fly" (1958), after Rick Jason turned it down. This was very successful at the box office. Hedison went to England to play the lead role in "Son of