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| rdfs:label | - David Hedison
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| rdfs:comment | - Albert David Hedison, Jr. is an American film, television, and stage actor. Prior to Bond, he had been famous for playing the titular character in the 1958 sci-fi/horror film The Fly. Hedison was the first actor to play James Bond's ally Felix Leiter in more than one film, Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill.
- He began his acting career with the Sock & Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. From there, he moved to off Broadway productions and a film contract with 20th Century-Fox. While at Fox, Hedison made two television series: "Five Fingers" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".
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| Birth | - 1927-05-20
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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| abstract | - He began his acting career with the Sock & Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. From there, he moved to off Broadway productions and a film contract with 20th Century-Fox. While at Fox, Hedison made two television series: "Five Fingers" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". He has also appeared in a great variety of roles, from the PBS Television Theatre's production of Oliver Hailey's "For the Use of the Hall", directed by Lee Grant, and the NBC mini-series "A.D.", directed by Stuart Cooper, to ABC's "Dynasty II: The Colbys". For five years, he played Spencer Harrison in the NBC daytime series "Another World". He has also worked on British television, including the BBC presentation of Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" in the role of John Buchanan opposite Lee Remick and performed in a West End production of James Leo Herlihy's "Bad Bad Jo Jo".
- Albert David Hedison, Jr. is an American film, television, and stage actor. Prior to Bond, he had been famous for playing the titular character in the 1958 sci-fi/horror film The Fly. Hedison was the first actor to play James Bond's ally Felix Leiter in more than one film, Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill. In 2008, Hedison celebrated the 35th anniversary of Live and Let Die in England, with autograph signings at the Vintage Magazine Shop on March 22 and by attending the memorabilia show in Birmingham March 29–30. He then wrote an introduction to the James Bond comic The Paradise Plot. In 2012 he appeared with two other Bond actors (Barbara Bouchet and Tanya Roberts) at the Hollywood show in Burbank, CA to celebrate 50 years of James Bond.
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