Cec Linder year at home in Toronto, Ontario, of complications from emphysema. Cec Linder Cec Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes. In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in "Goldfinger" (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared
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