He is also remembered for playing Felix Leiter in the James Bond picture Thunderball.

Van Nutter is 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 (1961), and his later films included Foxbat (1977) with Henry Silva and Vonetta McGee and the Jim Brown World War II adventure Pacific Inferno (1979).

Van Nutter was married to film actress Anita Ekberg from 1963 until 1975.

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