(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Actor David Hedison, who played an overreaching scientist in the original movie version of "The Fly" and co-starred in television's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," has died at age 92.
A family representative tells the Associated Press Hedison died peacefully last Thursday in Los Angeles with his daughter nearby.
Hedison's list of film and television credits are numerous and date back to the 1950s, according to his Internet Movie Database page. An early break for him was 1958's "The Fly," co-starring Vincent Price, in which Hedison played a scientist whose DNA was scrambled with that of a fly, with horrific results.
He was a submarine captain in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," the Irwin Allen-produced fantasy TV show that ran from 1964 to 1968. The Rhode Island native also had memorable roles in two James Bond films, "Live and Let Die" (1973, with Roger Moore as Bond) and 1989's "License to Kill" (with Timothy Dalton playing Bond). In both films, Hedison portrayed Felix Leiter, Bond's U.S. spy colleague.
