Lee Majors was born on Harvey Lee Yeary; April 23,1939 and is an American actor.
27 Facts About Lee Majors
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Lee Majors was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
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Lee Majors participated in track and football at Middlesboro High School.
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Lee Majors graduated in 1957, and earned a scholarship to Indiana University, where he again competed in sports.
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Lee Majors transferred to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1959.
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Lee Majors graduated from Eastern Kentucky in 1962 with a degree in history and physical education.
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At age 25, Lee Majors landed his first, although uncredited, role in Strait-Jacket, as the cheating husband of a character enacted by Joan Crawford.
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Lee Majors got 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 new ABC western series, The Big Valley, which starred Barbara Stanwyck.
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Lee Majors was called a "blond Elvis Presley" because of his resemblance to Elvis during this period of his career.
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Lee Majors's co-starring role on Owen Marshall led him to a starring role as United States Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut with bionic implants in The Six Million Dollar Man, a 1973 television movie broadcast on ABC.
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In 1977, with The Six Million Dollar Man still a hit series, Lee Majors tried to renegotiate his contract with Universal Television.
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Lee Majors played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter.
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Lee Majors made cameo appearances in Circle of Two and as himself in the 1988 holiday comedy Scrooged.
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Lee Majors voiced the character of "Big" Mitch Baker in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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Lee Majors played Jaret Reddick's disconnected father in Bowling For Soup's 2007 video, "When We Die".
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Lee Majors played a minor role in Stephen King's The Mist.
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Lee Majors played Coach Ross on the CW Network television series The Game, which ran from October 1,2006, to May 20,2009.
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Lee Majors appeared in the role of God in "Jim Almighty" a 2007 episode of According to Jim.
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Lee Majors later returned to the role in that show's 2009 series finale, "Heaven Opposed to Hell".
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Also in 2008, Lee Majors played a member of the Minutemen in season four of the Showtime series Weeds, where he recruits Kevin Nealon's character.
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In March 2010, Lee Majors played the crusty sailing instructor in the Community episode "Beginner Pottery".
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Lee Majors later reprised the role in a 2011 episode.
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On February 1,2013, it was announced that Lee Majors would appear in a two-episode guest spot in season two of TNT's Dallas as Ken Richards, an old flame of Sue Ellen's.
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Lee Majors appeared in the second and third seasons of Ash vs Evil Dead as Brock Williams, the father of Ash Williams.
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In late 2018, Lee Majors voiced an animated Six Million Dollar Man action figure in an advertisement for Honda's "Happy Honda Days" sale event.
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In 2019, Lee Majors voiced Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds Are Go.
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The title of the Beastie Boys song "Lee Majors Come Again" is a reference to Majors.