Biography
Rik Van Nutter was an American actor, also credited as Clyde Rogers and Rik Von Nutter. Born Frederick Allen Nutter, he worked initially as a location manager and assistant director before beginning an acting career in Rome in the late 1950s.
He is best known for playing Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965), the third actor to portray the character. Other credits include The Passionate Thief (1960), Romanoff and Juliet (1961), Foxbat (1977) and Pacific Inferno (1979). His final film role was in 1979.
Van Nutter was married to actress Anita Ekberg from 1963 until 1975. They lived in Spain and Switzerland and ran a shipping business together. He died in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005.
