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name: "Rik Van Nutter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rik-van-nutter"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 May 1929"
died: "15 October 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T11:05:23.421084+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Rik Van Nutter

Actor. Born 1 May 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 15 October 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 May 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 15 October 2005
- **Also known as:** Clyde Rogers, Rik Von Nutter
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Nutter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1859922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9922

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Thunderball* (1965), Fi1m 66, as Felix Leiter — [page](https://film.one/film/thunderball.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pacific Inferno* (1979), as Dennis
- *Foxbat* (1977), as Crays
- *Dynamite Joe* (1967), as Dynamite Joe
- *Un colpo da mille miliardi* (1966), as Fraser
- *Thunderball* (1965), as Felix Leiter — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/thunderball.md)
- *Seven Hours of Gunfire* (1965), as Buffalo Bill Cody
- *The Revenge of Ivanhoe* (1965), as Ivanhoe
- *Colussus and the Huns* (1962), Acting
- *Romanoff and Juliet* (1961), as Freddie
- *The Passionate Thief* (1960), Acting
- *We Like It Cold* (1960), as Ufficiale tedesco
- *Assignment: Outer Space* (1960), as Ray Peterson (IZ41)
- *Uncle Was a Vampire* (1959), as Victor (uncredited)

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