While searching Google, I stumbled across a website called The Leviathan Studios Custom Action Figure Collection! It features pictures of a multitude of custom figures based on famous television, movie and literary characters. All of the figures are superimposed over scenery in order to create scenes from each figure’s respective show, movie or book. There are many James Bond figures featured including Ian Fleming’s James Bond, Sean Connery as James Bond (4 different poses/outfits), George Lazenby as James Bond, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and last but not least, FELIX LEITER!
The Felix Leiter figure isn’t based on the likeness of any of the actors but on Ian Fleming’s description of him in 1953’s Casino Royale:
Felix Leiter was about thirty-five. He was tall and thin with a bony frame and his lightweight tan-coloured suit hung loosely from his shoulders like the clothes of Frank Sinatra. His movement and speech were slow, but one had the feeling that there was plenty of speed and strength in him and that he would be a tough, cruel fighter. As he sat hunched over the table, he seemed to have some of the jack-knife quality of a falcon. There was this impression also in his face, in the sharpness of his chin and cheekbones and the wide wry mouth. His grey eyes had a feline slant which was increased by his habit of screwing them up against the smoke of the Chesterfields which he tapped out of the pack in a chain. The permanent wrinkles which this habit had etched at the corners gave the impression he smiled more with his eyes than with his mouth. A mop of straw-coloured hair lent his face a boyish look which closer examination contradicted.
This custom Felix Leiter figure has the post-shark attack hook and is shown greeting Bond in New York à la 1956’s Diamonds Are Forever. Very impressive!
According to the site which was last updated in 2000:
Felix Leiter is a “Moving Soldier of the World” figure with his right hand replaced with a hook made of florist’s wire, and his head swapped with that of Mattel’s “Frank Sinatra: the Recording Years” painted blond. By the time I took the picture of Felix flashing his ID in Washington DC, I’d replaced the florist’s wire with a prosthetic hook from a 1970’s-era “Jay J. Armes” figure. His shoes are from a Civil War “Ultimate Soldier. The pants are from the 12″ “Blues Brothers 2000 ‘Mack’” with the shirt from the Sunny Smile “Strike Force Assassin” and a jacket hand-made by my wife. His Colt .45 is an “Ultimate Soldier” prop.
