Lee Majors
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Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary, 1939) is an American film, television, and voice actor.
Majors is best known for portraying Heath Barkley's characters in the American television science fiction action film The Big Valley (1965-1979), Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science fiction action film The Fall Guy (1981–1986).
Early life
Majors was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Carl and Alice Yeary's parents were killed in separate accidents. (His father died in a work accident six months before his birth, and his mother was killed in a car crash when he was just eighteen months old.) Majors was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, at the age of two, and the pair went with them to Middlesboro, Kentucky.
At Middlesboro High School, he participated in track and football. He graduated in 1957 and obtained a scholarship to Indiana University, where he competed in sports again. In 1959, majors graduated to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. He appeared in his first football game the following year but sustained a serious back injury that left him paralyzed for two weeks and ended his college athletic career. Following his injury, he devoted his time to acting and appearing in plays at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky. Majors graduated from Eastern Kentucky in 1962 with a degree in history and physical education. He aspired to be a football coach.
He was given a chance to try out for the St. Louis Cardinals football team after college. Rather, he moved to Los Angeles and began working as the recreation coordinator for North Hollywood Park. Majors fans in Los Angeles met many actors and industry professionals, including Dick Clayton, James Dean's agent, and Clayton, who recommended that he attend his acting class. Clayton believed that Majors was ready to begin his career after one year of acting school. He picked up Lee Majors as a tribute to childhood hero Johnny Majors, who was a player and future coach for the University of Tennessee at this moment. At MGM's acting school, Estelle Harman's was also studied by majors.
Personal life
Majors underwent heart bypass surgery in 2003.
Majors became a member of the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League in April 1983.
Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett inspired the song "Midnight Train to Georgia." Jim Weatherly phoned his friend Majors one day, and Fawcett answered his call. Weatherly and Fawcett briefly told him that she was going to visit her mother and was taking "the midnight plane to Houston." Although Majors and Fawcett were both profitable by that time, Weatherly used them as "characters" in his song about a failed actress who leaves Los Angeles and is followed by her boyfriend, who can't live without her. The genders were eventually swapped, the plane became a train, and Houston was relocated to Georgia. Gladys Knight & The Pips' recording reached Number One in 1973.
Marge Simpson fantasizes about competing with Majors in the 1994 The Simpsons episode "Burns' Heir."
"Lee Majors Come Again" by the Beastie Boys is a play on Majors.
"The Bionic Ear," Norm Macdonald's Netflix stand-up comedy special, Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery, poses Lee Majors' phone call about his agent's call about his request to film a commercial about a hearing aid.
Career
Majors landed his first, although uncredited, role in Strait-Jacket (1964), as Joan Crawford's cheating husband. Howard White appeared in a 1965 episode of Gunsmoke as Howard White in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "The Monkey's Paw – A Retelling," based on W. W. Jacobs' short story.
Majors received his big break when he was chosen out of over 400 young actors, including Burt Reynolds, for the co-starring role of Heath Barkley in a recent ABC western series, The Big Valley, which starred Barbara Stanwyck. Linda Evans, another newcomer who appeared on Heath's younger sister, Audra, was also on the show. Jarrod and Nick were played by Richard Long and Peter Breck respectively, as well as his brother Jarrod and Nick. "Boy howdy" was one of Heath's most popular expressions throughout the series. Big Valley was hit right away. During the series, Bigs co-starred in the 1968 Charlton Heston film Will Penny, for which he received an "Introducing" award, and landed the lead role in Andy Crocker (1969), a made-for-television film first released by ABC. "Coming home" was one of the first films to explore the subject of Vietnam veterans. He had been offered the opportunity to appear in Midnight Cowboy (1969), but the Big Valley was revived for another season, and he was forced to re-cast the role (which later went to Jon Voight). When the Big Valley was ended in 1969, he had signed a long-term deal with Universal Studios. Majors appeared in William Wyler's last film The Liberation of L.B. in 1970. Jones, a former actor, joined the cast of The Virginian for its final season as "The Men From Shiloh" starring four alternating leads. Roy Tate, the majors' new ranch hand, was on display.
During this period of his career, Majors was dubbed a "blond Elvis Presley" because of his resemblance to Elvis.
During Arthur Hill's collaboration, Jess Brandon, on Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, which attracted critical attention in its three seasons on ABC, he landed the role of Arthur Hill's associate, Jess Brandon, on Arthur Hill's Arthur Hill.
Owen Marshall's co-starring role led him to a lead role as United States Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut with bionic implants, in The Six Million Dollar Man, a 1973 television film film distributed on ABC. The network decided to make it a week in 1974. The series became a worldwide success, being broadcast in over 70 countries, making Majors a pop icon. Majors made his directorial debut in 1975 on an episode called "One of Our Running Backs Is Missing" in which professional football players such as Larry Csonka and Dick Butkus co-starred.
Majors tried to renegotiate his deal with Universal Television in 1977, with The Six Million Dollar Man still a hit series. The studio in turn filed a lawsuit to convince him to work due to stipulations in his current deal, which had not yet expired. Majors was rumored that he was waiting for more money, but his boss denied it: Majors was reportedly struggling to have Fawcett Majors Productions develop as an independent producer in association with Universal in order to keep the company viable. After majors did not report to work in June, studio executives relented. However, sales started to decline, and The Six Million Dollar Man was cancelled in 1978 (as was The Bionic Woman). Time-Life released a 40 DVD set in November 2010 with every episode and bonus features from the series.
He appeared in several films during the 1970s as well. Francis Gary Powers (1976), the true story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976), the Viking film The Norseman (1978), co-starring Cornel Wilde, the horror thriller Killer Fish (1979), and the political thriller Agency (1980), starring Robert Mitchum, are among the television films starring Terry Woods.
Majors appeared in another long-running television series in 1981. Glen A. Larson (who appeared on Alias Smith and Jones as a guest on one episode and later on The Six Million Dollar Man) invited him to act in the Fall Guy's pilot. Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter, appeared in Majors. Majors performed on stage as both a producer and a producer, as well as the show's theme tune, the self-effacing "Unknown Stuntman." Linda Evans, Peter Breck, Lindsay Wagner, and Richard Anderson, all long-time friends, would appear in various episodes. The series lasted for five seasons until it was cancelled in 1986.
Will Kane (1980), his first film, the science fiction film The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983), and the disaster film Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983). Majors and Lindsay Wagner appeared in three major The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman TV films between 1987 and 1994. In 1984, Majors appeared in Circle of Two (1980) and as himself in the 1988 holiday comedy Scrooged.
He appeared in the film Keaton's Cop in 1990, and in Tour of Duty and the short-lived 1992 film Raven, he starred. He appeared in the films Trojan War (1997), Out Cold (2001), Big Fat Liar (2002), and The Brothers Solomon (2005). In the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, he portrayed "Big" Mitch Baker. In Bowling For Soup's 2007 film "When We Die," he played Jaret Reddick's estranged father. He appeared in Ben 10: Race Against Time for the first time in his career, as well as voiced a character in APTN's animated children's program Wapos Bay: "Steve from Austin" in the APTN animated children's program Wapos Bay. He appeared in Stephen King's The Mist in a minor way.
Coach Ross appeared on The Game, the CW Network television show The Game, which ran from October 1, 2006 to May 20, 2009.
In "Jim Almighty" a 2007 episode of According to Jim, Majors appeared in the role of God. "Heaven Opposed to Hell" was later reprised as the show's 2009 series finale. In season four of the Showtime series Weeds, where he recruits Kevin Nealon's character, Bigs played a member of the Minutemen (dedicated to preventing illicit border crossings). In the "Bionic Woman" segment of the Robot Chicken season four episode "Love, Maurice," Col. Steve Austin reprised his role (voice only) as Col. Steve Austin. (2009).
In the Community episode "Beginner Pottery" in March 2010, Majors played the crusty sailing instructor. In "Christopher Chance," the 12th episode of Human Target, he appeared as the mentor of the series lead. He appeared in G.I. later this year. Joe: Renegades. In a 2011 episode, he reprised his role. In Jerusalem Countdown, he appeared as "Rockwell" in 2011. Ralph Burt's father appeared in three episodes of Raising Hope from 2011 to 2014. In season two of TNT's Dallas as Ken Richards, an old flame of Sue Ellen's, it was announced on February 1, 2013. In 2015, he appeared as J.D.