Before smartphones were invented.
Posted on 07/23/2019 5:28:36 AM PDT by DFG
David Hedison, who starred in the original sci-fi classic “The Fly” and appeared in two James Bond films, has died. He was 92.
He died Thursday in Los Angeles with his daughters at his side, a representative for the family, Jennifer Allen, said in an email Monday.
Hedison portrayed Capt. Lee Crane in the long-running sci-fi television series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and Spencer Harrison on the daytime series “Another World.”
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Did not know that. I don’t care who ya are, that right there’s funny. Hat time to Larry the Cable Guy.
I wasn’t a little kid when it came out. I was finishing HS and into college and like Lost in Space I thought it lame.
Before smartphones were invented.
Clifton James stole the show in “Live and Let Die”, and “Man with the Golden Gun.”
Unfortunately, David Hedison was an over-acting dud in “Live and Let Die” and “License To Kill.”
“By the powers invested in me by this parish, I hereby do commandeer this vehicle and all those persons within. And that means you, smartass!”
“ON WHICH SIDE???”
“Now you listen to me trooper boy. We got a swamp-full of black Russians driving boats to beat the dam down here!”
“Secret agent?! On WHOSE side?!”
In one of the early episodes, the submarine had sunk and tilted on its side. In order to allow docking with the rescue vehicle, it had to be righted. A sailor volunteered to seal himself into a closed room and open a valve, thus filling the room with seawater and ensuring that he would drown, but altering the weight balance of the submarine enough to solve the tilting problem. This scene was very disturbing for a kid.
On reflection, it is not clear why it was not possible for the sailor to quickly leave the room after the valve had been opened. And also where all the air in the room would go.
He disagreed with something that ate him.
RIP.
“License To Kill”. An underrated Bond film.
One of my favorites, I’m a big fan of Dalton in the role. Pity that studio legal troubles cut his tenure short.
Agreed.
I read before that Broccoli and Saltzman wanted him to take over for Sean Connery when he left after “YOLT” (one of my favorites), but decided against it because Dalton was too young at the time.
There could have been a what, 25 year run of Dalton as Bond? That would have been cool.
Yeah, I liked Dalton, too. I thought he effortlessly settled into the role in “The Living Daylight.” “Licence to Kill”, with Hedison playing Felix Leiter for the second time, was like a nice “Miami Vice”-esque film.
It’s curious the producers wanted Dalton as far back as 1969 to play in OHMSS, but Dalton thought he was too young. Had he accepted, he could’ve played the role for 30 years had he chosen to.
Oops, didn’t see GOPster’s reply and wrote the identical thing. :-P
Indeed.
Kinda like how I was all in FROM THE BEGINNING on a certain WINNING POTUS candidate while “others” coalesced around a furdato who eats his own snots and would have lost 40 states in a general election?
Hmmm.
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