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David Hedison, Actor Who Found Fame in a Submarine, Dies at 92

By Anita Gates

• July 23, 2019

David Hedison, the tall, dark and handsome actor who rose to fame as the by-the-book submarine captain on the prime-time series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 92.

His family announced the death in a statement.

Mr. Hedison was also well known for having played Felix Leiter, Agent 007’s C.I.A. friend, in two James Bond movies, 16 years apart, opposite two different Bonds: “Live and Let Die” (1973), starring Roger Moore, and “Licence to Kill” (1989), starring Timothy Dalton.

But “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which had its premiere on ABC in 1964, gave him his star-making role. It went on to become the decade’s longest-running science fiction series with the same characters — as opposed to “The Twilight Zone,” which was an anthology show.

At first, “Voyage” featured story lines about the Cold War and natural disasters; it moved on to mummies, werewolves, extraterrestrials and mutated plankton. All four seasons were set in the future (the 1970s and ’80s, that is).

Mr. Hedison admired his co-star, Richard Basehart , who played an admiral, and professed to enjoy the series experience.

“The memories are, all in all, quite pleasant except some of those shows later, in the fourth year, with the monsters — I didn’t like doing those particularly,” he said in a 1992 interview that appears on his website. “I didn’t mind when I had to turn into one. I thought that was a lot of fun.”

Albert David Hedison Jr. was born on May 20, 1927, in Providence, R.I., where his father was in the jewelry business. His parents, Albert and Rose (Boghosian) Hedison, were both from Armenia, where the original family name was Heditsian.

Their son first became involved in theater at Brown University in Providence, and later studied acting at both the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio in New York.

He began his career under the name Al Hedison and made his Broadway debut as a page in a 1952 production of “Much Ado About Nothing.” Four years later, he won a Theater World Award for his role as Belyaev the tutor in an Off Broadway staging of Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country.”

Moving on to Hollywood, he made his television debut on “Danger,” a mystery anthology series, in 1954. His first film was “The Enemy Below” (1957), a naval-battle drama starring Robert Mitchum. His second is probably more vividly remembered.

He was the doomed scientist — the brother of Vincent Price’s character — experimenting with teleportation and getting mixed up (literally) with an insect in the original version of the horror movie “ The Fly ” (1958).

“The lead character spent a lot of time with a cloth over his head,” Mr. Hedison said in an interview, recalling that he really liked the script nonetheless.

He was first billed as David Hedison when he starred as an undercover agent working in Europe in the short-lived drama series “Five Fingers” (1959-60), and as a newspaper reporter on an expedition, complete with angry dinosaurs, in the Irwin Allen film “ The Lost World ” (1960).

After his success on Mr. Allen’s “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” Mr. Hedison was offered the lead in a forthcoming prime-time sitcom, “The Brady Bunch,” but he said he wasn’t interested.

“I turned it down because after four years of subs and monsters, who needs kids and dogs?” he told one interviewer. ( Robert Reed took the role.)

Mr. Hedison went to London instead, to star onstage in Tennessee Williams’s “Summer and Smoke” opposite Lee Remick . A television movie of the production was shown on the BBC.

During a six-and-a-half-decade career, Mr. Hedison took on more than 100 film and television roles, but he often said that theater was his first love. In the 1990s and early 2000s he appeared in regional theater, often in Massachusetts and Maine.

His wife, Bridget (Mori) Hedison, died in 2016 after 48 years of marriage. His survivors include their daughters, Alexandra and Serena Hedison.

Mr. Hedison had recurring roles on the daytime dramas “Another World” and “The Young and the Restless.” He appeared in seven episodes of “The Love Boat” and six of “Fantasy Island.” His last movie role was in “Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk” (2017). He never claimed to be particularly proud of the acting jobs he did primarily to pay the mortgage.

There are many of his movies that “I avoid like the plague,” he confessed on his website . “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.”

David Hedison, Actor in ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ and ‘The Fly’, Dies at 92

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David Hedison, a film, television, and theater actor known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the sci-fi adventure television series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and as the crazed scientist turned human insect in the first iteration of the film “ The Fly ,” died on July 18. He was 92, and the family said in a statement that he “died peacefully” with his daughters at his side.

“Even in our deep sadness, we are comforted by the memory of our wonderful father. He loved us all dearly and expressed that love every day. He was adored by so many, all of whom benefited from his warm and generous heart. Our dad brought joy and humor wherever he went and did so with great style,” said the family in a statement.

David Hedison, born Al Hedison, was from Providence, R.I. and studied at Brown University where he grew fond of the theater, becoming a part of the university’s theater production group “Sock and Buskin Players.” He then moved to New York, studying with Sanford Meisner at “The Neighborhood Playhouse” as well as Lee Strasberg of “The Actor’s Studio.” In the 1950s, he appeared in “Much Ado About Nothing” and “A Month in the Country,” working with Uta Hagen and Michael Redgrave on productions by Clifford Odets and Christopher Fry, among others.

Shortly after “A Month in the Country,” Hedison first hit the big screen with his role in the 1957 film “The Enemy Below” and in the 1958 film “Son of Robin Hood.” He also played André Delambre in “The Fly,” (1958) which became a cult phenomenon and sparked a remake in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum reprising the role. Hedison then signed with Twentieth Century Fox in 1959 and changed his first name to David, his given middle name. In 1964, he hit his big television break as Captain Lee Crane in producer Irwin Allen’s “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which ran until 1968.

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He also joined Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “ Live and Let Die ” as well as Timothy Dalton in 1989 with “ License to Kill ,” becoming the first actor to play CIA agent Felix Leiter twice. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on shows such as “Another World,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat,” “Who’s the Boss” and “The Colbys.”

According to family members, Hedison joked during his final days that “instead of RIP he preferred SRO ‘Standing Room Only.'” They said that he was “tall and strikingly handsome,” and “a true actor through and through.”

Hedison’s wife, Bridget, a production associate on “Dynasty” and an assistant to producer on “The Colbys,” died in 2016. He is survived by two daughters; Serena and Alexandra, an actress and director who is married to Jodie Foster.

Donations may be made to the Actor’s Fund.

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Mayfield Village holds Memorial Day Ceremony at Whitehaven Memorial Park (photos)

• Published: May. 26, 2024, 5:08 p.m.
• David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com

MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio -- Dozens of guests celebrated the memory of U.S. veterans under a bright and hazy sky, during the Memorial Day Ceremony at Whitehaven Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon.

The veterans cemetery section of the memorial park was dotted with hundreds of flags as guests sat nearby listening to speakers celebrate the lives of men and women who gave their lives in service for the country.

Joshua Franey, of Tampa Bay, a U.S. Army veteran, spoke of losing his friend Brian Black, an Army Green Beret, during a training mission to Niger in October of 2017. Franey’s voice cracked as he read through Black’s biography, which is written by service members and is only to be read if the writer has been killed in action.

“Brian, and others who have come before him, are the reason we are able to be here today,” said Franey.

Others who spoke included Mayfield Village Chief of Police, Paul Matis, who is a U.S. Navy veteran, and Mayfield Village Mayor Brenda Bodnar.

“All of you who here today had a choice, to come here, or stay home, or do whatever you wanted to do,” said Bodnar.

“By participating in this Memorial Day ceremony, you honor the courageous men and women who gave you that choice,” she added, “and you recognized that patriotism does not lie so much in words as it does in actions.”

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Cal Track & Field: David Foster Sizzles to Wind-Aided 9.91

Jeff faraudo | may 25, 2024.

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Cal junior David Foster, already the school-recordholder in the 100-meter dash, ran a blistering wind-aided time of 9.91 seconds at the NCAA West Regional meet Friday — almost certainly the fastest all-conditions time ever recorded by a Golden Bears sprinter.

The 𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 all-conditions time in program history. 📽️ ESPN+ #GoBears 🐻 pic.twitter.com/oNlteuzFR5 — Cal XC/Track & Field (@CalTFXC) May 24, 2024

The time is faster than the 2024 wind-legal world-leading mark of 9.93 by 18-year-old Florida high schooler Christian Miller, but the wind reading makes it ineligible for any record purposes.

Foster, whose wind-legal program record is 10.14 seconds, was aided Friday by a backing wind of 2.9 meters per second. That’s equivalent to about 6.5 miles per hour. Only times in sprint events run at 2.0 mps or lower count for record purposes.

His clocking was not even the fastest of the day at the meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Houston duo of Louie Hinchcliffe and Shaun Maswanganyi ran 9.84 and 9.89, respectively, in a different heat, their times benefiting from a 2.5 mps wind.

All three qualified for the NCAA nationals, June 5-8 at Eugene, Oregon.

Even wind-aided, there is no questioning Foster’s mark is fast. Very fast.

Omari Lewis of Trinidad and Tobago owns the fastest wind-aided time in the world this season, a 9.88 clocking aided by a substantial wind of 5.1 mps (11.4 mph). Two others have run 9.91 or better. Foster had previously run 10.06 wind-aided.

A native of Katy, Texas, Foster broke Atlee Mahorn’s 34-year-old Cal record of 10.18 earlier this season. According to the World Athletics website, Mahorn never ran a faster wind-aided time than 10.01, and that came in 1991, a year after the Canadian graduated from Cal.

He will run in one of three NCAA semifinal races at Eugene, with 24 qualifiers from the West and East regional meet vying for eight lanes in the final. Auburn junior Favour Ashe won the East regional 100 meters with a wind-legal time of 9.94, equal to the fastest by a collegiate runner this season.

Foster is the first Cal male sprinter to advance to the NCAA Championship in the 100 meters since Willie White in 1960.

Foster also helped anchored Cal’s 4x100 relay to a berth at the NCAA nationals on Friday. The foursome of Chase Williams, George Monroe, Mason Magnum and Foster clocked a season-best 39.28 to finish third in its heat and improve its mark as the No. 2 entry on Cal’s all-time list.

The school record is 39.11, set in 1975 and featured future NFL wide receiver Wes Walker running anchor.

Houston posted the fastest time of the day at 38.80, although the time five teams coming out of the East ran faster on Friday, led by Kentucky at 38.53.

Four Cal field event athletes qualified for Eugene during Wednesday’s competition: pole vaulter Skyler Magula, shot putter Jeff Duensing and hammer throwers Rowan Hamilton and Ivar Moisander.

The Cal women have yet to earn a berth at the nationals, although Jada Hicks in the 100 hurdles and Aysha Shaheed in the 100 meters will compete for berths in Saturday’s quarterfinal races.

Caisa-Marie Lindfors has a good chance to qualify Saturday in the women’s discus, where she has the to mark in the West field.

NOTE: Cal junior Mykolas Alekna, the world-recordholder in the discus, remained undefeated in three outings this season, winning Thursday at the Jõhvi 2024 meeting in Estonia. Alekna, who is redshirting this collegiate season to prepare for the Paris Olympics, threw 225-9 (68.82 meters) to prevail in a field that included international stars Kristjan Ceh (225-1 / 68.60) of Slovenia, Matthew Denny (223-0 / 67.99) of Australia and Daniel Stahl (218-9 / 66.69) of Sweden.

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Jeff Faraudo was a sports writer for Bay Area daily newspapers since he was 17 years old, and was the Oakland Tribune's Cal beat writer for 24 years. He covered eight Final Fours, four NBA Finals and four Summer Olympics. 

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Photography of Jupiter began in January 1979, when images of the brightly banded planet already exceeded the best taken from Earth. Voyager 1 completed its Jupiter encounter in early April, after taking almost 19,000 pictures and many other scientific measurements. Voyager 2 picked up the baton in late April and its encounter continued into August. They took more than 33,000 pictures of Jupiter and its five major satellites.

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Man gets 30 years in prison for attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer

The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. Jurors previously found David DePape guilty last November.

FILE - In this image taken from San Francisco Police Department body-camera video, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, right, fights for control of a hammer with his assailant David DePape during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home, on Oct. 28, 2022. DePape convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer is set to be sentenced in federal court Friday, May 17, 2024. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)

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FILE – David DePape is seen, Dec. 13, 2013, in Berkeley, Calif. DePape convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer is set to be sentenced in federal court Friday, May 17, 2024. (Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

FILE - Paul Pelosi attends a portrait unveiling ceremony for his wife, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 14, 2022. David DePape who was convicted last year in federal court of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home will be sentenced in federal court Friday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Gypsy Taub, ex-partner of David DePape, speaks to reporters after DePape’s sentencing in federal court Friday, May 17, 2024, in San Francisco. He was found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Sergio Lopez, acting assistant agent in charge of the FBI, speaks to reporters after the sentencing of David DePape in federal court Friday, May 17, 2024, in San Francisco. DePape was found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man who broke into the home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeking to hold her hostage and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

But prosecutors later filed a motion saying the court failed to offer the defendant, David DePape, an opportunity “to speak or present any information to mitigate the sentence” as required by federal rule. They asked the court to reopen the sentencing portion to allow him that option. The court did not immediately respond.

A jury found DePape, 44, guilty in November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. Prosecutors had asked for a 40-year prison term.

The attack on Paul Pelosi, who was 82 at the time, was captured on police body camera video just days before the 2022 midterm elections and sent shockwaves through the political world . He suffered two head wounds including a skull fracture that was mended with plates and screws he will have for the rest of his life. His right arm and hand were also injured.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley sentenced DePape to 20 years for attempted kidnapping and 30 years for the assault, the maximum for both counts. The sentences will run concurrently. He also was given credit for the 18 months he has been in custody.

In its afternoon motion to the court, the U.S. attorney’s office said DePape was not given the opportunity by the court to speak before being sentenced and that could present an issue.

DePape’s defense, however, said they opposed bringing back their client to court and filed a notice of appeal, according to the filing. Prosecutors and defense counsel did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment late Friday.

The court has 14 days to correct a sentence resulting from error, prosecutors said.

DePape stood silently as he was sentenced and looked down at times. His public defense attorneys had asked the judge to sentence him to 14 years, pointing out that he was going through a difficult period in his life at the time of the attack, had undiagnosed mental health issues and had no prior criminal history.

At trial, DePape testified that he had planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and record his interrogation of the Democratic speaker, who was not at her San Francisco home at the time of the attack, to upload it online.

Ahead of the sentencing, one of his defense attorneys, Angela Chuang, told the judge to consider the prison terms being given to those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

“The five most serious sentences for people who were convicted of seditious conspiracy, of literally conspiring to overthrow the government, range from 15 to 22 years,” Chuang said.

Corley said the Jan. 6 analogy didn’t adequately reflect the seriousness of breaking into an official’s private home. The attack may have a chilling effect on people seeking office in the future, she said.

“They have to think not only, ‘Am I willing to take that risk myself, but am I willing to risk my spouse, my children, my grandchildren?’” the judge said.

Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence on each count and for DePape to serve 10 years concurrently, giving him a 40-year prison term.

Before sentencing, Christine Pelosi read her father and mother’s victim statements, explaining how the violent attack changed their lives. In Paul Pelosi’s statement, he explained that 18 months after the attack, he still gets headaches and vertigo and has fainted and fallen twice at home.

“Once you are attacked in such a public and political manner, with such threatening language, you always have to fear a copycat,” Nancy Pelosi said in her statement. “When I encourage people, especially women to consider running for office, physical threats to the family should not even be a factor, but they are.”

Both Paul and Nancy Pelosi said there are still bloodstains on the floor and other signs of the break-in at their home.

“Our home remains a heartbreaking crime scene,” Nancy Pelosi wrote.

DePape admitted during trial testimony that he broke into the Pelosis’ home Oct. 28, 2022, intending to hold the speaker hostage and “break her kneecaps” if she lied to him. He also admitted to bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer after police showed up, saying his plan to end what he viewed as government corruption was unraveling.

Defense attorneys argued DePape was motivated by his political beliefs, not because he wanted to interfere with Nancy Pelosi’s official duties as a member of Congress, making the charges against him invalid.

Chuang, one of his attorneys, said during closing arguments that DePape was estranged from his family and was caught up in conspiracy theories.

Sky Gonzalez, David DePape’s son, told reporters outside court the 30-year prison term was equivalent to getting a death sentence.

“I think that’s quite sad. I think that’s a really long time, because if you think about it, he’s already nearly 50. Basically, it’s just a death sentence,” Gonzalez said before repeating the same conspiracy theories his father wrote about before the attack.

At trial DePape, a Canadian who moved to the U.S. more than 20 years ago, testified that he believed news outlets repeatedly lied about former President Donald Trump. In rants posted on a blog and online forum that were taken down after his arrest, DePape echoed the baseless, right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory that claims a cabal of devil-worshipping pedophiles runs the U.S. government.

Prosecutors said he had rope and z ip ties with him, and detectives found body cameras, a computer and a tablet.

Paul Pelosi recalled at the trial how he was awakened by a large man bursting into the bedroom and asking, “Where’s Nancy?” He said that when he responded that his wife was in Washington, DePape said he would tie him up while they waited for her.

“It was a tremendous sense of shock to recognize that somebody had broken into the house, and looking at him and looking at the hammer and the ties, I recognized that I was in serious danger, so I tried to stay as calm as possible,” Pelosi told jurors.

DePape also is charged in state court with assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, residential burglary and other felonies. Jury selection in that trial is expected to start Wednesday.