Martin Marootian once worked as an apprentice at the costume jewelery factory owned by Hedison's father.
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).
Children are: Alexandra Hedison and Serena Rose Hedison
First actor to portray 007's CIA friend Felix Leiter twice: Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989).
He is half Armenian. The most famous Armenian filmmaker is Sergei Parajanov the best friend of Mikhail Vartanov, also an Armenian. None have Armenian last names.
He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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.
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.