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
Lord Darcy (character) travelling from London to Naples, is clearly related to the considerable subgenre of works whose plots take place on board the Orient Express. Elizabeth Bear, whose novel "New Amsterdam" is set in a (quite different) alternate timeline where magic works, acknowledged her debt to the Darcy stories by giving her protagonist, a forensic sorceress, the name Abigail Irene Garrett. In David Weber's Honorverse novel "Mission of Honor", a character is reading "a novel about the psychically gifted detective Garrett Randall by the highly popular Darcy Lord." Though having a completely different historical origin, Lord Darcy's 20th century has many similarities