David Hedison

What strikes me about David Hedison is how he became a quiet fixture across three corners of pop culture without ever being the marquee name. He was the doomed scientist in the original The Fly, captained the sub on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and then earned a small piece of immortality as the only actor to play Felix Leiter twice in the Bond films. That kind of longevity, from a 1956 Theatre World Award to roles spanning the 1950s through the 1980s, tells me he was a reliable craftsman first. A Brown University man who simply kept working, and I respect that durability.

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Name (English)

David Hedison

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・ヘディソン

Reading

でゔぃっど・へでぃそん

Born

May 20, 1927 – July 18, 2019

Origin

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / stage actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

University

Brown University

Awards & achievements

• 1956 Theatre World Award

• Official sitehttp://www.davidhedison.net/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hedison
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72262

Tags

• Rhode Island
• actor
• television actor
• stage actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.