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 asked back because "there was much more to do in the film than in the past, and they were afraid of using an unknown or someone they were not quite sure of." "I think in this kind of film, it won't lead to other work unless you do something stand-out with a really wonderfully written scene," added Hedison." Otherwise you're just doing a job, part of the ensemble. And in this case, I have lots of action scenes, but no one scene that is memorable... Felix is a fairly one-dimensional character, you never get into any depth. You do what