David Hedison, the tall, dark and handsome actor who rose to fame as the by-the-book submarine captain on the prime-time series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 92.

His family announced the death in a statement.

Mr. Hedison was also well known for having played Felix Leiter, Agent 007’s C.I.A. friend, in two James Bond movies, 16 years apart, opposite two different Bonds: “Live and Let Die” (1973), starring Roger Moore, and “Licence to Kill” (1989), starring Timothy Dalton.

But “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which had its premiere on ABC in 1964, gave him his star-making role. It went on to become the decade’s longest-running science fiction series with the same characters — as opposed to “The Twilight Zone,” which was an anthology show.

At first, “Voyage” featured story lines about the Cold War and natural disasters; it moved on to mummies, werewolves, extraterrestrials and mutated plankton. All four seasons were set in the future (the 1970s and ’80s, that is).