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.