1. David Hedison was known for his roles as the title character in The Fly, Captain Lee Crane in the television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and CIA agent Felix Leiter in two James Bond films, Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill.
David Hedison was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Armenian immigrants Albert David Hedison Sr and Rose Boghosian.
David Hedison enlisted in the US Navy in 1945 during World War II, but the war ended before he completed basic training.
David Hedison 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 Actors Studio.
David Hedison was billed as Al Hedison in his early film work until 1959 when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series Five Fingers.
David Hedison did radio in North Carolina and worked on stage in Pittsburgh.
David Hedison was studying with Uta Hagen who recommended him for a role in the Broadway production of A Month in the Country, directed by Michael Redgrave.
David Hedison followed that up with the lead role in the horror film The Fly with Vincent Price as his brother.
David Hedison got the role after Rick Jason turned it down.
David Hedison went to England to play the lead role in The Son of Robin Hood.
David Hedison was cast in the lead of a TV series made by Fox for NBC, Five Fingers.
David Hedison was reluctant to make it, especially when NBC insisted he change his first name to David.
David Hedison had the lead role in an adventure film The Lost World, directed by Irwin Allen.
David Hedison guest starred on some Fox shows, Hong Kong and Bus Stop.
David Hedison co-starred with Tom Tryon in Marines, Let's Go.
David Hedison worked regularly on television, guest starring in Perry Mason, Wonder Woman and The Farmer's Daughter.
David Hedison co-starred in an episode of The Saint, starring Roger Moore who became a great friend.
David Hedison was one of many stars in the film The Greatest Story Ever Told.
David Hedison could be seen in Kemek, A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, Crime Club, The Cat Creature, and The Man in the Wood.
David Hedison was most proud of doing an adaptation of Summer and Smoke with Lee Remick.
David Hedison played Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die, with his friend Roger Moore starring as the new James Bond.
Sixteen years later, David Hedison returned to play Leiter in Licence to Kill, with Bond now being portrayed by Timothy Dalton.
David Hedison became the first actor to reprise the role of Felix Leiter and is the only actor to play Leiter with two different James Bonds.
David Hedison toured with Barbara Anderson and Anita Gillette in Neil Simon's Chapter Two in 1979 and 1980.
David Hedison was in The Awakening of Cassie for Romance Theatre, Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues, and The Naked Face with Moore.
David Hedison appeared in the West Coast premiere of Forty Deuce in 1985.
From 1991 to 1996, David Hedison was a regular on the long-running soap opera Another World.
David Hedison starred in the New York City premiere of First Love with Lois Nettleton in 1999.
David Hedison returned to the Cape Playhouse to appear in Tale of the Allergist's Wife, and at Monmouth University's Pollak Theatre, in Love Letters with Nancy Dussault in 2007.
David Hedison had a role in The Young and the Restless and could be seen in The Reality Trap.
In 2008, David Hedison performed Uncle Vanya at the Actors Studio West.
David Hedison participated in performances of The Cherry Orchard and I Never Sang for My Father in Los Angeles in 2009.
David Hedison later appeared in The Marriage Play by Edward Albee.
David Hedison was in Superman and the Secret Planet and Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk.
Bridget David Hedison died of breast cancer on February 22,2016.
David Hedison died on July 18,2019, at his home in Los Angeles.