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 Robin Hood" (1958). Hedison was cast in the lead of a TV series made by Fox for NBC, "Five Fingers" (1959). He was reluctant to make it, especially when NBC insisted he change his first name to "David". The series only lasted one season. Hedison had the lead role in an adventure film "The Lost World" (1960), directed by Irwin Allen. Allen liked Hedison and offered him the lead in the film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961) but the actor turned it down. Hedison guest starred on some Fox shows, "Hong Kong" and "Bus Stop". He co-starred