David Hedison

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 (1973) and लाइसेन्स टू किल (1989). Wright played the role in three films: कसिनो रोयाल (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008) and नो टाइम टू डाय (2021).
Father-in-law of Jodie Foster.
First actor to portray 007's CIA friend Felix Leiter twice: live and let die (1973) and लाइसेन्स टू किल (1989).
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.
He was the son of Armenian parents, Rose (Boghosian) and Albert David Hedison/Heditisian, from Harpoot (now Elazig). Some publications listed David Hedison's birthname as "Ara Heditsian." His Armenian grandfather, David/Tavit Heditisian, reportedly changed the family name from Heditsian to Hedison because everyone always mispronounced it as Hedison.

When I go back to theater I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever and when I've made the money I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself. Most of the time I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.
Of course, there are pictures you never want to see again -- most of the films I've made like द फ्लाय (1958), The Lost World (1960), Marines, Let's Go (1961). There's a whole slew of shit I avoid like the plague and when I know they'll be on TV I have a dinner party and invite my friends over so they can't see them.
[on why he turned down the lead in The Brady Bunch (1969)] I turned it down because after four years of subs and monsters, who needs kids and dogs?
In your career, you must be so careful, otherwise you get caught in a particular image and it's hard to break.