David Hedison

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Biography

David Hedison was born Albert David Hedison, Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island, where his father owned a jewelry enameling business. He decided he wanted to be an actor after seeing _Blood and Sand in 2012.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 20 May 1927
  • Place of birth
  • Providence· Rhode Island
  • Death date
  • 2019-07-18
  • Death age
  • 92
  • Place of death
  • Los Angeles
  • Children
  • Alexandra Hedison
  • Education
  • Brown University·Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre

Movies

TV

Awards

Trivia

First actor to portray 007s CIA friend Felix Leiter twice: Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill . Still the only actor ever to play the role in two non consecutive Bond films.

Children are: Alexandra Hedison and Serena Rose Hedison

Some publications list his birth name as "Ara Heditsian." His Armenian grandfather reportedly changed the family name from Heditsian to Hedison because everyone always mispronounced it as Hedison.

He is Armenian.

His name is one of just five celebrity names actually incorporated into The Statler Brothers top ten song "The Movies". The lyricist needed a word that rhymed with Thomas Edison.

Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Capt. Lee Crane in the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" .

He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

Martin Marootian once worked as an apprentice at the costume jewelry factory owned by Hedisons Uncle.

Father-in-law of Jodie Foster.

Along with Jeffrey Wright , he is one of only two actors to play Felix Leiter in more than one "James Bond" film: Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill . Wright played the role in both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace .

Not only was he the first actor to portray Felix Leiter twice (as already posted), but he played Felix to two different Bonds (Moore and Dalton) To date he was the only one to do so as the character, pending future Bond films, has not returned since his character was fed to the sharks by the villain in the License to Kill film (originally titled License Revoked).

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