Lee Majors

Lee Majors (born April 23, 1939) is an American actor.

Lee Majors
Lee Majors in 2016
Born	Harvey Lee Yeary (1939-04-23) April 23, 1939 Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Actor, movie producer
Years active	1964 – present
Television	The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy
Spouse(s)	Kathy Robinson (m. 1961-1964, divorced) Farrah Fawcett (m. 1973-1982, divorced) Karen Velez (m. 1988-1994, divorced) Faith Cross (m. 2002-present)
Children	3 sons, 1 daughter
Parent(s)	Carl and Alice Yeary (biological, deceased) Harvey and Mildred Yeary (adoptive)

Career

Majors began his career in small roles for movie and television. One role was in Strait-Jacket (1964), with Joan Crawford.

In 1965, he got the role of Heath Barkley on the ABC series The Big Valley, with Barbara Stanwyck as the owner of the ranch, and mother of three of the Barkleys. Majors played the character for 112 episodes between 1965 and 1969. It was the first hit of his career.

After the success of Big Valley. Major starred in the TV movie The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969). He played a man who, after returning from Vietnam, loses the most precious things in his life.

In 1970, he was invited to join the cast of The Virginian, starring James Drury. In The Virginian, the role played by Roy Tate, during the 1970-1971 season of the series.

In 1971, he played Jess Brandon, assistant attorney, in Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law.

In 1978, starred in the movie about Vikings The Norseman. Then came Killer Fish (1979) and Agency (1980) with Robert Mitchum.

In 1980, he starred in the television remake of High Noon. In High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980), Majors played Will Kane. In this movie were two big western stars David Carradine and Pernell Roberts.

In 1981, he returned to television. He was successful in a number of television series. In The Fall Guy, he played Colt Seavers, a stunt double who worked to solve criminal cases. The series was one of the biggest hits of Majors and remained in the air between 1981 and 1986.

In the 1990s, he co-starred in the series Tour of Duty and Raven. He was a guest star on the series Daytona Beach (1996) and Walker, Texas Ranger (1998). In recent years he was a guest star on Will & Grace (2005), Cold Case (2007), According to Jim (2008), and Human Target (2010).

In 2011, the movie version of The Big Valley started being made. Majors plays Tom Barkley.

The Six Million Dollar Man

One of Majors' most famous roles is that of Col. Steve Austin in the ABC series The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-1977). In that series, he played an astronaut whose body was rebuilt with bionic parts after a plane crash. His co-star was the actor Richard Anderson.

There were three movies pilots: The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973) and The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973).

Majors was in a reunion movie, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987), Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (1989), and Bionic Ever After? (1994).

In 1977, Majors was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as best actor for The Six Million Dollar Man.

Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Strait-Jacket	Frank Harbin	uncredited
1965/1969	The Big Valley	Heath Barkley	TV series
1968	Will Penny	Blue
1969	The Ballad of Andy Crocker	Andy Crocker	TV movie
1970	The Liberation of L.B. Jones	Steve Mundine
1970	Weekend of Terror	Larry	TV movie
1970/1971	The Virginian	Roy Tate	TV series
1971/1974	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Jess Brandon	TV series
1973	The Six Million Dollar Man	Col. Steve Austin	TV movie
1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War	Col. Steve Austin	TV movie
1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping	Col. Steve Austin	TV movie
1974/1978	The Six Million Dollar Man	Col. Steve Austin	TV series
1978	The Norseman	Thorvald
1979	Steel	Mike Catton
1979	Killer Fish	Lasky
1980	Agency	Philip Morgan
1980	High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane	Will Kane	TV movie
1981	The Last Chase	Franklyn Hart
1981/1986	The Fall Guy	Colt Seavers	TV series
1983	Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land	Captain Cody Briggs	TV movie
1984	The Cowboy and the Ballerina	Bob Clayton	TV movie
1986	A Smoky Mountain Christmas	Mountain Dan	TV movie
1987	The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman	Col. Steve Austin	TV movie
1988	Keaton's Cop	Mike Gable
1989	Danger Down Under	Reed Harris	TV movie
1989	Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman	Steve Austin	TV movie
1990	Tour of Duty	PFC Thomas 'Pop' Scarlet	TV series
1992/1993	Raven	Herman "Ski" Jablonski	TV series
1993	The Cover Girl Murders	Rex Kingman	TV movie
1994	Bionic Ever After?	Steve Austin	TV movie
1996	Daytona Beach	Owen Travers	TV movie
1997	Lost Treasure of Dos Santos	Henchman Stone	TV movie
1997	Raven: Return of the Black Dragons	Ski
1997	Trojan War	Officer Austin
1999	The Protector	Austin
1999	Chapter Zero	Manatee Man
2000	Primary Suspect	Lt. Blake
2001	Hotel!	President of the U.S.A.	TV movie
2001	Hard Knox	Darrell Knox	TV movie
2001	Out Cold	John Majors
2002	Big Fat Liar	Vince
2003	Fate	Oscar Odgen
2004	The Trail to Hope Rose	Marshall Toll	TV movie
2004	Arizona Summer	Mr. Travers
2005	Hell to Pay	Marshall Boone
2006	When I Find the Ocean	Thomas
2006	Lightspeed	Tanner	TV movie
2006	Waitin' to Live	Bucko Cassidy
2007	Guys Choice	Steve Austin	TV movie
2007	The Brothers Solomon	Ed Solomon
2007	Ben 10: Race Against	Grandpa Max	TV movie
2009	The Adventures of Umbweki	Police Captain Richard
2010	Johnny	Dr. Mike Miller
2010	Corruption.Gov	Jim Lawrence
2011	Spring Break '83	Carter
2013	Matt's Chance	The Figure

References

• Fandom has a wiki on this subject: The Bionic Wiki
• The Six Million Dollar Man on IMDb (original pilot)
• The Six Million Dollar Man on IMDb (series)
• The Six Million Dollar Man at TV.com
• The Six Million Dollar Man Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine at Nostalgia Central
• The Six Million Dollar Man at Jump The Shark