Lee Majors Biography
Born: April 23, 1939
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. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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