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John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name, Jack Lord, was an American television, film and Broadway actor and director and producer. He was known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord appeared in feature films earlier in his career, among them Man of the West (1958). He was the first actor to play the recurring character Felix Leiter in Dr. No, the first James Bond film.

Early years 

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lord was the son of Irish-American parents. His father, William Lawrence Ryan, was a steamship company executive. He grew up in Morris Park  (now known as Richmond Hill), Queens, New York.

Young Lord developed his equestrian skills on his mother's fruit farm  in the Hudson River Valley. He started spending summers at sea, and from the decks of cargo ships  painted and sketched the landscapes he encountered — Africa, the Mediterranean and China. He was educated at St. Benedict Joseph Labre School, John Adams High School, in Ozone Park, New York, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy,  then located at Fort Trumbull  in New London, Connecticut, graduating as an Ensign  with a Third Mates License. He attended New York University (NYU) on a football scholarship, and earned a degree in Fine Arts.

He spent the first year of the United States' involvement in World War II with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, building bridges in Persia. He returned to the Merchant Marine   as an Able Seaman before enrolling in the deck officer course at Fort Trumbull. While making maritime training films, he took to the idea of acting.

Career 

Lord received theatrical training from Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He worked first as a car salesman for Horgan Ford, then later as a Cadillac salesman in New York to fund his studies. Later he studied at the Actors Studio. 

His Broadway debut was as Slim Murphy in Horton Foote's The Traveling Lady with Kim Stanley.   The show ran for 30 performances, October 27, 1954 through November 20, 1954. Lord won the Theatre World Award  for his performance. Lord was then cast as Brick  in a replacement for Ben Gazzara in the 1955–1956 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  He had been in  The Little Hut (his first play), The Illegitimist, and The Savage.

His first commercial film role was in the 1949 film  The Red Menace a.k.a. Project X, an anti-Communist production. He was associate producer in his 1950 film Cry Murder. In 1957, Lord starred in Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot,  which has run daily at Colonial Williamsburg since then. In 1958, Lord co-starred as Buck Walden in God's Little Acre,  the film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel.

Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter  in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. According to screenwriter Richard Maibaum, Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the role  in Goldfinger, which resulted in director Guy Hamilton casting Cec Linder in the role.

In 1962, Lord starred as series namesake Stoney Burke,  a rodeo cowboy from Mission Ridge, South Dakota. The basis for the series was real-life champion rodeo rider Casey Tibbs.  The series featured Warren Oates and Bruce Dern in recurring supporting roles. Lord credited Gary Cooper as his on-screen role model, and the inspiration for his characterization of Stoney Burke.

Lord was considered for Eliot Ness in The Untouchables before Robert Stack won the role.  In 1965 he guest-starred as Colonel 'Pres' Gallagher in second season episode 5, "Big Brother" of 12 O-Clock High. Other television guest appearances include Appointment with Adventure, The Americans, Bonanza, High Chaparral, Combat!, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Reporter starring Harry Guardino, The Fugitive, The Invaders, Rawhide, Ironside, and The F.B.I.

Lord appeared on the first episode of Have Gun, Will Travel. In 1968, Lord appeared with Susan Strasberg in the film The Name of the Game is Kill. 

According to William Shatner,  in 1966, Gene Roddenberry offered Lord the role of Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, to replace Jeffrey Hunter, whose wife was making too many demands. Lord asked for 50 percent ownership of the show, so Roddenberry offered the role to Shatner.

Hawaii Five-O 

Jack Lord helped conceive Hawaii Five-O and starred for its 12 seasons as Detective Steven McGarrett, appointed by the Governor to head the (fictional) State Police criminal investigation department in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The opening sequence includes a shot of Lord standing on a penthouse balcony of The Ilikai hotel. Chin Ho Kelly,  the name of the police detective played by Kam Fong, was a tip-of-the-hat to Ilikai developer Chinn Ho. Lord's catchphrase, "Book him, Danno!", became a part of pop culture. He was instrumental in the casting of native Hawaiians, instead of mainland actors. Lord insisted his character drive Ford vehicles; McGarrett drove a 1967 Mercury Park Lane in the pilot, a 1968 Park Lane from 1968–1974, and a 1974 Mercury Marquis for the remainder of the series (this very car was shown in the 2010 remake). Lord was a perfectionist.  At the airing of its last episode, Hawaii Five-O was the longest-running cop show in television history.

When series creator Leonard Freeman died in 1974, the show's ownership was shared among Lord, CBS and Freeman's estate, with a contract that made Lord executive producer and gave him complete control over content. He was a hands-on partner who paid attention to minute details,  and was known for battles with network executives.

Artist 

During his years at NYU, Lord and his brother Bill opened the Village Academy of Arts. Jack's childhood dream was to become an artist. His first professional sale was in 1941 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for his two linoleum cuts, entitled Vermont and Fishing Shacks, Block Island. 

Personal life 

Lord's first marriage to Anne Willard ended in divorce in 1947. Lord met his son (from his first marriage) only once when the boy was an infant. The boy was later killed in an accident at age 13. 

Jack met his second wife while house hunting in upstate New York.  On January 17, 1949, Lord married Marie de Narde, who gave up her career in fashion design to devote her life to him. Marie designed Lord's off-camera wardrobe, as well as her own.

Lord was a chain-smoker who failed at traditional methods of quitting. According to Lord, it was his faith in God which broke him of his habit. Lord and a friend visited a Catholic church where both knelt while Lord promised God he would stop smoking.

Lord was known for being a cultured man who loved reading poetry out loud on the set of his television show and for being reclusive at his Honolulu home.

Cinematographers sometimes refer to a 50mm lens ('5-0') as a "Jack Lord" in reference to the name of the show that made him famous. 

Death 

After his series ended in 1980, Lord kept a low profile, rarely making public appearances. His final TV appearance was that same year in a failed pilot for a new CBS series called M Station: Hawaii which he also directed. Lord suffered from Alzheimer's disease for seven years before his death.   He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Honolulu, on January 21, 1998, at age 77, leaving an estate of $40 million. He was a philanthropist and the entire estate went to Hawaiian charities upon his wife Marie's death in 2005. 

Memorial 

A bronze bust of Lord by Hawaii sculptor Lynn Weiler Liverton was unveiled in a ceremony at the Kahala Mall on June 19, 2004. The Lords lived in a condominium in the Kahala area, and they were known to frequent the neighborhood mall. The nonprofit Jack Lord Memorial Fund, which raised the money for the memorial, was co-chaired by British Hawaii Five-O fan Esperanza Isaac and Lord's co-star Doug Mossman.  

Filmography Cec Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992)  was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.

In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared was Lolita (1962), as Doctor Keegee.

Early life

He was born in Galicia, Poland.citation needed His family moved to Canada when Linder was very young, and he became a naturalised Canadian citizen.

Career

Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59). In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas The Secret Storm and  The Edge of Night and in the 1980s appeared in several of the Perry Mason revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles. Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, playing Crown Attorney Spenser.

During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: The Forest Rangers, Doomwatch, The Littlest Hobo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside, The Saint, Danger Bay and The New Avengers.

During his time in Canada, Linder worked as an announcer at CKGB in Timmins, Ontario.

Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series Sweating Bullets (1991). He died the following year at home in Toronto, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.

Selected filmography

*Flaming Frontier (1958) as Capt. Dan Carver
*Subway in the Sky (1959) as Carson
*Jet Storm (1959) as Colonel Coe
*SOS Pacific (1959) as Willy
*Too Young to Love (1959) as Mr. Bill
*Crack in the Mirror (1960) as Murzeau
*Lolita (1962) as Physician
*Goldfinger (1964) as Felix Leiter
*Tecnica di un omicidio (1966) as Gastel
*Quentin Durgens, M.P. (1966) as Sherwin
*Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1967)
*Explosion (1969) as Mr. Evans
*Innocent Bystanders (1972) as Mankowitz
*The Sloane Affair (1973) as Roy Maxwell
*Super Bitch (1973) as American Ambassador
*A Touch of Class (1973) as Wendell Thompson
*To Kill the KIng (1974) as Stephen Van Birchard
*Old God Knows (1974) as Mr. Klein
*Why Rock the Boat? (1974) as Carmichael
*Sunday in the Country (1974) as Ackerman
*Second Wind (1976) as Graham
*Point of No Return (1976) as Professor Johns
*The Clown Murders (1976) as The Developer
*Age of Innocence (1977) as Dr. Hogarth
*Deadly Harvest (1977) as Henry the Chairman
*Three Dangerous Ladies (1977) as Dr. Carstairs (segment: "The Mannikin")
*The Case of Barbara Pasons (1978) as Loren Bowley
*Drága kisfiam (1978) as Mr. George
*Tomorrow Never Comes (1978) as Milton
*High-Ballin' (1978) as Policeman
*I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978) as Chief Parker
*Something's Rotten (1979) as Alexis Alexander
*City on Fire (1979) as Councliman Paley
*Lost and Found (1979) as Mr. Sanders
*Virus (1980) as Dr. Latour
*Atlantic City (1980) as President of Hospital
*Deadly Eyes (1982) as Dr. Louis Spenser
*Heavenly Bodies (1984) as Walter Matheson
*Lune de miel (1985) as Barnes Rik Van Nutter (May 1, 1929 – October 15, 2005), was an American actor who appeared in many minor films and the James Bond picture Thunderball. 

Career

He best known for playing the third version of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). He also had a role alongside Peter Ustinov in Romanoff and Juliet (1968), and his later films included Foxbat (1977) with Henry Silva and Vonetta McGee and the Jim Brown WW2 adventure Pacific Inferno (1979).

Personal life

Van Nutter was married to film actress Anita Ekberg from 1963 until 1975. They lived in Spain and Switzerland and started a shipping business together. 

Death

Van Nutter died on October 15, 2005 at the age of 76.

Filmography

* Thunderball (1965) - Felix Leiter
* Dynamite Joe (1967) - Agent Joe Ford Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 - November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American film and television actor.

Early life

Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).

Career

His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980). 

On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.

Death

Burton was just a few days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.  

Selected filmography

*Fright (1957) - Reporter - Thompkins
*Pretty Boy Floyd (1960) - Bill Courtney
*Hand of Death (1962) - Chief Homicide Investigator
*Womanhunt (1962) 
*Wild Seed (1967) - Policeman
*Valley of the Dolls (1967) - Nelly O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
*Planet of the Apes (1968) - Hunt Leader
*R.P.M. (1970) - Coach McCurdy
*Jud (1971) - Uncle Hornkel
*Simon, King of the Witches (1971) - Willard Rackum
*Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) - Army Officer
*Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Felix Leiter
*Fuzz (1972) - Police Commissioner Nelson
*Save the Tiger (1973) - Fred Mirrell
*Hit! (1973) - The Director 
*The Terminal Man (1974) - Det. Capt. Anders
*The Towering Inferno (1974) - Giddings
*The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) - Dr. Frederick Spear
*The Gumball Rally (1976) - Lieutenant Roscoe
*Scorchy (1976) - Chief Frank O'Brien
*Murder in Peyton Place (1977) - Jay Kamens 
*Fade to Black (1980) - Marty Berger
*Amy (1981) - Caruthers
*Mausoleum (1983) - Dr. Simon Andrews
*Crimes of Passion (1984) - Lou Bateman
*Pray for Death (1985) - Lt. Anderson
*Bad Guys (1986) - Captain Watkins
*Bloodsport (1988) - Helmer
*Deep Space (1988) - Gen. Randolph
*Live Wire (1992) - Senator Victor
*American Ninja V (1993) - Ambassador Halden (Last appearance) 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 billed 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 and as CIA agent Felix Leiter in two James Bond films, Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill.

Early life 

Hedison decided he wanted to be an actor after he saw Tyrone Power in the film Blood and Sand. He began his acting career with the Sock and Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.   Hedison enlisted in the United States Navy in 1945, but the war ended before he completed basic training. He served 18 months, then mustered out.

Career 

Theatre 

His work on the New York stage includes the off-Broadway production of A Month in the Country, directed by Michael Redgrave, which starred Uta Hagen, for which role Hedison won a Theater World Award. Hedison toured with Barbara Anderson and Anita Gillette in Neil Simon's Chapter Two in 1979 and 1980 and appeared in the West Coast premiere of Forty Deuce in 1985. He toured with Elizabeth Ashley in Come into My Parlour in 1988, and was in the world premiere run of Bernard Slade's Return Engagements that same year. He appeared at the Cape Playhouse in 1998 in Alone Together with Anita Gillette. He also starred in the New York City premiere of First Love with Lois Nettleton in 1999. He returned to the Cape Playhouse to appear in Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2002), and at Monmouth University's Pollak Theatre, in Love Letters with Nancy Dussault in 2007.

In 2006, he acted in The Scent of Jasmine at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles on November 13. In 2008 David performed Uncle Vanya at the Actor's Studio West.  He also participated in performances of The Cherry Orchard and I Never Sang for my Father in Los Angeles in 2009. David most recently appeared in The Marriage Play by Edward Albee.

Film 

After his role in A Month in the Country, Hedison signed a film contract with 20th Century-Fox. His first movie with them was the classic war film The Enemy Below (1957), which also starred Robert Mitchum. He followed that up with the 1958 horror classic The Fly. Other films in which he appeared  include The Son of Robin Hood (1958), The Lost World (1960), Marines, Let's Go! (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), North Sea Hijack (1979), and The Naked Face (1984). He later appeared in Fugitive Mind in 1999, the 2001 movie Mach 2, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 also in 2001 and the 2004 film Spectres. His most recent role was in 2005's The Reality Trap.

Hedison was the first actor to play James Bond's ally Felix Leiter in more than one film, Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989).

He recorded an interview for the 2007 DVD re-release of The Fly (1958) in London and an audio commentary track in Los Angeles as part of the bonus features on The Fly Collection, which includes all three of the early films.

In 2008, Hedison celebrated the 35th anniversary of Live and Let Die in England, with autograph signings at the Vintage Magazine Shop on March 22 and by attending the memorabilia show in Birmingham March 29–30. He then wrote an introduction to the James Bond comic The Paradise Plot that was released in the United States on July 8.

Hedison spent from June 2007 until March 2008 working on the trade paperback The Fly at 50! in collaboration with Diane Kachmar and David Goudsward. The Fly at 50! was published in 2008 and is available from Amazon.com. Hedison was asked his opinion on the AMC web site about The Fly The Opera which debuted in Paris on July 2, 2008 and then attended the Los Angeles Opera premiere in September. He ended the celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Fly by attending the Chiller Theater convention in Parsippany, NJ,  in October and the SuperMegafest show in Framingham, MA (Boston) in November 2008.

He took part in and was interviewed for the Vincentennial celebration - 100 years of Vincent Price - that began in St. Louis In June 2011 and ended in Pittsburgh in late October with a stop in Nashville along the way. In Pittsburgh at Monsterbash, Hedison was "Dad" to two of his sons, Charles Herbert and Brett Halsey, at the first ever The Fly movie reunion.

In 2012, Hedison was interviewed about his work in The Fly for the documentary Monsters, Martians and Mad Scientists: Horror in the Atomic Age. In April he appeared with two other Bond actors
(Barbara Bouchet and Tanya Roberts) at the Hollywood show in Burbank, CA to celebrate 50 years of James Bond.  Hedison made two more appearances for the 50th anniversary, the first in Bloomington, MN at Crypticon, September 28 and 29 and another appearance at Memorabilia in Birmingham, UK at the NEC on November 24 and 25.

David attended a screening of Licence to Kill at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA on April 2, 2013. David was interviewed by George Pappy, Jr. for the documentary, The Green Girl, about the life of actress Susan Oliver.  David attended a preview screening of this documentary in Santa Monica, March 15, 2014.  The Green Girl Documentary had screenings in July and August and was released on home video on July 30.  The film was featured at the 2014 Star Trek Las Vegas convention and most recently won the Grand Jury prize at the Valley Film Festival.

Television 

Much of Hedison's acting career has been on television. In 1961, he appeared with Geraldine Brooks (1925–1977) in an episode of ABC's Bus Stop with Marilyn Maxwell, for which Brooks was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 1962 he was cast as defendant Damion White in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Dodging Domino." He was cast as a counter espionage agent who traveled the world as a Hollywood talent agent in the 16-episode series Five Fingers. He followed that up with a starring role as Captain Lee Crane in the ABC television version of Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Richard Basehart. Hedison had been the original choice for Captain Crane in the motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea but turned down the role as he was dissatisfied with Allen's The Lost World.  The show ran for four years. He also had a semi-regular role on ABC's The Colbys.

He appeared in television movies such as The Cat Creature (1973), The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975), Murder in Peyton Place (1977) and A.D. (1985), as well as
The Saint, Family, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Bob Newhart Show, Charlie's Angels, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Who's the Boss?, and Wonder Woman, among many others. In 1990, he was the series host for Phenomenal World. He played Spencer Harrison on the American soap opera Another World from 1991 to 1996. He followed that up in 2004 with a role on The Young and the Restless as Arthur Hendricks.

Fox released the first episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on DVD on February 21, 2006, and Hedison was interviewed extensively for that release and for several subsequent releases after that through October 23, 2007. All three season releases included clips from Hedison's interview for The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen in 1995. The final season was released in 2010 and 2011. The entire run was released in Region 2 DVD in the UK in 2011. A region 4 release (Australia) began in 2014. David attended a 50th anniversary Voyage reunion at the Hollywood show in October 2014.  He also made an appearance at Stan Lee's Comikaze October 30–31, 2015.

Other

In 2006 and 2007, Hedison worked on four audio books. The first, McKnight's Memory, was first released in October 2007. The second, The King, McQueen and the Love Machine, was released June 15, 2008. The third project was a 12-minute introduction to the reissue of The James Bond Lifestyle that came out June 7, 2007. His fourth audio book project, The Casino Caper, was released in August 2007.

Hedison was featured on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as one of the actors who was interviewed for the premiere episode of Season 8, in which Roger Moore was profiled. The program aired on September 14, 2012, on ITV1 in the United Kingdom.

A book on Hedison's 1959 television series, Five Fingers, was published by BearManor Media in 2015. The book was written by Diane Kachmar.

Personal life 

His parents were Albert David Hedison (Heditisian), Sr. and Rose Boghosian; they were Armenian. He and his wife Bridget were married in London on June 29, 1968. Bridget Hedison died of breast cancer on 22 February 2016.  They had two adult daughters, actress/director/photographer Alexandra Hedison and editor/producer Serena Hedison. Alexandra Hedison has appeared in L.A. Firefighters and The L Word and is married to actress and director Jodie Foster. John Terry (born January 25, 1950) is an American film, television, and stage actor.  He is perhaps best known for his role as Christian Shephard in the TV series Lost and Larry McCoy in the TV series Las Vegas.

Early life

Terry was born in Florida, where he attended Vero Beach High School. He was also educated at the prestigious Loomis Chaffee prep school in Windsor, Connecticut, and began a career building original custom log homes in North Carolina. He played roles in local theater before moving to Alaska where he founded a river rafting company. But his interest in acting did not diminish. At age 30 he moved to New York City and became a full-time actor.

Career

Terry's debut role was as the title character in the 1980 fantasy film Hawk the Slayer, followed by roles in films such as There Goes the Bride (1980), Tuxedo Warrior (1982) and the action sequel Wild Geese II (1985), as Barbara Carrera's brother. His career then took a major upswing as he was assigned the roles of Lieutenant Lockhart in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Felix Leiter in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987).  Nothing as prominent followed immediately, though he received good notices for his role as a traumatized Vietnam veteran in Norman Jewison's In Country (1989). Terry subsequently played the lead in a well-regarded but short-lived TV series Against the Grain. Terry played Slim in the 1992 film adaptation of Of Mice and Men and also appeared in The Resurrected (1992), an adaption of the H. P. Lovecraft novella, Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Recently he has found new success on television. He appeared in the first episodes of ER playing Dr. Div Cvetic, the love interest of Dr. Lewis, who disappeared after a nervous breakdown.  He later played a recurring role in season two of Fox's real-time thriller 24, as Bob Warner, the father of both the love interest of hero Jack Bauer and of another daughter whose fiancé is suspected of being a terrorist. 

After a brief stint on NBC's Las Vegas, he was cast as Christian Shephard, the father of Jack Shephard and Claire Littleton on ABC's Lost.  Terry reprised his role as Shephard on several occasions in flashbacks before appearing frequently in real time on the island as an incarnation of "the man in black". He had a guest role in a 2006 episode of Law & Order, as well as the part of older Jacob Wheeler in Steven Spielberg's Into the West mini series, which was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards in 2006. He also appeared in David Fincher's Zodiac, Matthew McConaughey's Surfer, Dude, and the horror thriller Nine Dead.

Filmography

*There Goes the Bride (1980)
*Hotwire (1980)
*Hawk the Slayer (1980)
*Tuxedo Warrior (1982)
*The Scarlet and the Black (1983) - Lt. Harry Barnett
*Wild Geese II (1985)
*Full Metal Jacket (1987)
*The Living Daylights (1987) - Felix Leiter
*In Country (1989)
*The Resurrected (1991)
*Of Mice and Men (1992)
*A Dangerous Woman (1993)
*Iron Will (1994)
*Reflections on a Crime (1994)
*The Big Green (1995)
*Heartwood (1998)
*Zodiac (2007)
*Surfer, Dude (2008)
*The Way of War (2009)
*Nine Dead (2009) Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American film, television and stage actor. He is known for such roles as Belize in the HBO miniseries Angels in America, Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat, Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, and Beetee in three out of the four The Hunger Games films.

Early life

Wright was born in Washington, D.C., to a mother who worked as a customs lawyer and a father who died when Wright was a child.  He graduated from St. Albans School and attended Amherst College, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and planned to attend law school; however, he decided to study acting instead. After attending New York University for two months, he left to become a full-time actor.

Career

Wright began appearing off-Broadway in New York City and Washington DC, and in 1990, he appeared in his first major film as an attorney in Presumed Innocent, which starred Harrison Ford. In 1991, Wright joined John Houseman's national touring repertory company The Acting Company with productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Athol Fugard's Blood Knot. In 1994, he was cast as Norman "Belize" Arriaga in Tony Kushner's award-winning play Angels in America. His portrayal of a gay nurse forced to take care of Roy Cohn as he dies of AIDS won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

In 1996, Wright portrayed painter Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film Basquiat, to critical acclaim. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Wright appeared in both leading and supporting roles in such films as Celebrity (1998), Ride with the Devil (1999), Shaft (2000), and Boycott (2001), where he gave an AFI Award-winning performance as Martin Luther King, Jr.. In 2003, Wright reprised his role as Norman "Belize" Arriaga in HBO's award-winning adaptation of Angels in America. His performance garnered him an Emmy award as well as a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in a miniseries. In 2004, he appeared in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate. In February 2005, Wright returned to HBO Films in Lackawanna Blues. He also guest starred on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Homicide: Life on the Street.

Among his other film roles was Washington attorney Bennett Holiday in Syriana (2005). The same year, he played Bill Murray's eccentric Ethiopian neighbor Winston in Broken Flowers. In 2005, he starred in the play This Is How It Goes. He also appeared as one of the tenants in Lady in the Water. In 2006, Wright was featured as Felix Leiter in the James Bond movie Casino Royale. He reprised the role in Quantum of Solace. 

In 2007, Wright starred in the alien invasion suspense thriller The Invasion. In 2008, he portrayed Colin Powell in W. He portrayed Muddy Waters in Cadillac Records, a biopic, loosely about the rise and fall of Chess Records. In 2010, Wright played Jacques Cornet in the world premiere run of A Free Man of Color at the Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City.

Wright plays Beetee in The Hunger Games film series, starting with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, released in November 2013. He also landed the role of Dr. Valentin Narcisse in season 4 of Boardwalk Empire, starting in the fall of 2013. 

Personal life

Wright married actress Carmen Ejogo in August 2000. They have a son named Elijah and a daughter named Juno and lived in Brooklyn, New York.   They have since divorced.  In 2004, Wright received an honorary degree from his alma mater, Amherst College.[http://www3.amherst.edu/magazine/issues/04summer/college_row/hondegrees.html Amherst Magazine Summer 2004: College Row] Amherst Magazine, Summer 2004

Wright has been a longtime activist working to end resource-related conflicts. In 2011, Wright established Taia Lion Resources, a mineral exploration company focused on ethical and sustainable mining in Sierra Leone. In August 2012, Wright's conflict-free mining philosophy was highlighted in a video by the Enough Project.

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