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 (1975), "The Art of Crime" (1975), "Murder in Peyton Place" (1977), "Colorado C.I." (1978) "The Power Within" (1979). Hedison toured with Barbara Anderson and Anita Gillette in Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" in 1979 and 1980. He could be see in "North Sea Hijack" (1980), episode of "Charlie's Angels", "Nero Wolfe", "Hart to Hart", "T.J. Hooker", "Matt Houston", "Amanda's", "Dynasty", "Fantasy Island", "Partners in Crime" ,"The Fall Guy", "The Love Boat", "Simon & Simon", "Double Trouble", "Finder of Lost Loves", "Knight Rider", "Crazy Like a Fox", "The A-Team", "Trapper John, M.D.", "Hotel", "The Colbys", "Who's the Boss?", "The Law and Harry