Claim: Lee Majors is a performer.

Lee Majors -LRB- born Harvey Lee Yeary ; April 23 , 1939 -RRB- is an American film , television and voice actor . Majors is best known for portraying the roles of Heath Barkley in the American television Western series The Big Valley -LRB- 1965 -- 1969 -RRB- , Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man -LRB- 1973 -- 1978 -RRB- , and Colt Seavers in American television action series The Fall Guy -LRB- 1981 -- 1986 -RRB- .   In the television series The Six Million Dollar Man , Steve Austin takes on special high-risk government missions using his superhuman bionic powers . The television character Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s .   Majors reprised the role of Colonel Steve Austin in several bionic reunion television movies in the late 1980s and 1990s . He appeared in a number of supporting , recurring and cameo roles in feature films and television series , and lent his voice to a number of animated TV series and video games .