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
Cec Linder and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958–59). In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas "The Secret Storm" and "The Edge of Night" and in the 1980s appeared in several of the "Perry Mason" revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles. Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series "Seeing Things", playing Crown Attorney Spenser. During his career, he also had guest roles