Lee Majors

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

 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 movie1970  The Liberation of L.B. Jones   Steve Mundine 1970  Weekend of Terror   Larry TV movie1970/1971  The Virginian  Roy Tate  TV series 1971/1974 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law   Jess Brandon   TV series1973  The Six Million Dollar Man    Col. Steve Austin  TV movie1973 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 series1978  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 series1993  The Cover Girl Murders   Rex Kingman  TV movie1994Bionic 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


  (original pilot)
  (series)

 The Six Million Dollar Man  at Nostalgia Central
 The Six Million Dollar Man at Jump The Shark

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