Albert David Hedison Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Albert David Hedison, Jr. (born May 20, 1927) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was billed as Al Hedison in his early film work. In 1959, when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series Five Fingers, NBC insisted that he change his name. He proposed that he use his middle name and he has been known as David Hedison ever since. He is known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in Irwin Allen's TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
The Fly, Licence to Kill, Live and Let Die, The Lost World, The Enemy Below, North Sea Hijack, The Son of Robin Hood, Marines, Let's Go, The Naked Face, Mach 2, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Fugitive Mind, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, The Cat Creature, Murder in Peyton Place, Spectres, Undeclared War,...
TV Shows
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Another World, Five Fingers
In your career, you must be so careful, otherwise you get caught in a particular image and it's hard to break.
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[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?
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Of course, there are pictures you never want to see again -- most of the films I've made like The Fly (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.
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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.
Martin Marootian once worked as an apprentice at the costume jewelry factory owned by Hedison's Uncle.
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He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Capt. Lee Crane in the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964).
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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.
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He is Armenian.
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Some publications list his birth name as "Ara Heditsian." His Armenian grandfather reportedly changed the family name from Heditsian to Hedison because everyone always mispronounced it as Hedison.
First actor to portray 007's CIA friend Felix Leiter twice: Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989). Still the only actor ever to play the role in two non consecutive Bond films.
$850,000
