Lee Majors details
Also known as: Harvey Lee Yeary II
Roles: Actor, Executive Producer, Producer
Date of Birth: April 23, 1939
Active Years: 1964-2007
Filmography: The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969), Will Penny (1967), Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991), Danger Down Under (1988), A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986), Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man (1972)
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A football star at Eastern Kentucky State College, Lee Majors came to Los Angeles armed with a physical education degree and possessed with a vague desire to break into films. He worked as a park recreation director for the City of Los Angeles before entering show business in 1963. Majors was promoted as "the New James Dean," though he personally aspired to become a new Steve McQueen or Paul Newman (he also retained his permit to work as a recreation director, just in case the world wasn't holding its breath for a new Dean, McQueen or Newman). Majors achieved stardom on his own merits in a variety of television series, the most recent of which was 1992's Raven. His best-known TV roles included Heath Barkley on The Big Valley (1965-69), bionic Steve Austin on The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-78) and stunt man Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy (1981-86). In addition, he has headlined a number of made-for-TV movies, essaying the old Gary Cooper part in the 1991 sequel to High Noon and portraying U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in a 1976 biopic. For several years, Lee Majors was married to actress Farrah Fawcett. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
