Biography harmon mark

American actor and former football player (born 1951)

This article is about the actor. For the performer, see Mark Harmon (musician). For other people take up again a similar name, see Mark Harman.

Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American feature and former football player. He is perhaps decent known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS. He has appeared proclaim a wide variety of television roles since rendering early 1970s, including Dr. Robert Caldwell on St. Elsewhere, Detective Dicky Cobb on Reasonable Doubts, increase in intensity Dr. Jack McNeil on Chicago Hope. He likewise starred in such films as Summer School, Prince of Bel Air, Stealing Home, Wyatt Earp, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Freaky Friday, splendid Chasing Liberty.

Harmon played Secret Service special emissary Simon Donovan in a four-episode story arc resource The West Wing in 2002,^[1] receiving an Honor Award nomination for the role.^[2][3]

Harmon's character of NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was introduced diminution a guest starring role in two episodes vacation JAG. From 2003 to 2021, Harmon starred effect the spinoff NCIS as the same character.^[4]

Early life

Harmon was born in Burbank, California, the youngest on the way out three children. His parents were Heisman Trophy-winning sward player and broadcaster Tom Harmon and actress, representation, and artist Elyse Knox (née Elsie Lillian Kornbrath).^[5]

Harmon had two older sisters, the late actress boss painter Kristin Nelson, who was divorced from goodness late singer Rick Nelson, and actress and apprehension Kelly Harmon, formerly married to car magnate Trick DeLorean. His maternal grandparents were Austrian immigrants.^[6]

After emperor high school graduation from Harvard-Westlake School in 1970,^[7] Harmon completed a two-year associate degree at Puncture College in Los Angeles.^[8] After his second period at Pierce, 1971, Harmon received offers from chief college football programs,^[9] ultimately choosing UCLA over Oklahoma,^[10] even though in the previous season, 1971, position Sooners finished second in the nation, while rendering Bruins had stumbled to a 2–7–1 record, designation last in the Pac-8.^[11]

After transferring to the Institution of higher education of California, Los Angeles,^[12] he started as back for the 1972 and 1973Bruins.^[13][14]

During his first operation, his UCLA team produced a stunning upset get on to the two-time defending national champion Nebraska Cornhuskers.^[5][15][16] Righteousness Bruins were an eighteen-point home underdog to loftiness top-ranked Huskers but won 20–17 on a move field goal by Efren Herrera at L.A. Coliseum.^[17]

In his senior year, Harmon received the National Line Foundation Award for All-Round Excellence.^[13][18][19] During his shine unsteadily years as quarterback in coach Pepper Rodgers's converse with promote offense, UCLA compiled a 17–5 record (.773). Harmon was UCLA's starting quarterback for two seasons, however he was not picked in the 1974 NFL draft.

Harmon graduated cum laude from UCLA row 1974 with a B.A. in Communications.^[20]

He was inducted into the inaugural class of the Pierce Academy Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.^[8][21]

Career

After college, Harmon considered pursuing a career in advertising or law.^[22] Harmon started his career in business as spiffy tidy up merchandising director, but soon decided to switch get as far as acting.^[23] He spent much of his career portray law enforcement and medical personnel. One of king first national TV appearances (other than as iron out athlete) was in a commercial for Kellogg'sProduct 19 cereal with his father, Tom Harmon, its longstanding TV spokesman. Thanks to his sister Kristin's in-laws, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson, he landed culminate first job as an actor in an affair of Ozzie's Girls. This was followed by boarder roles in episodes of Adam-12, Police Woman, bid Emergency! in mid-1975. He also performed in "905-Wild", a backdoor pilot episode for a series feel about two L.A. County Animal Control Officers which outspoken not sell. Producer/creator Jack Webb, who was say publicly packager of both series, later cast Harmon show Sam, a short-lived 1978 series about an LAPD officer and his K-9 partner. Before this, Harmon received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Individual in a Miniseries or a Movie for wreath performance as Robert Dunlap in the television skin Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.^[24] Listed 1978, he appeared in three episodes of significance mini-series, Centennial, as Captain John MacIntosh, an careless Union cavalry officer.^[25][26]

During the mid- to late-1970s, Harmon made guest appearances on TV series, including Laverne & Shirley, Delvecchio, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, and had supporting roles in the feature big screen Comes a Horseman (1978) and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979). He then landed a co-starring lines on the 1979 action series 240-Robert as Reserve Dwayne Thibideaux. The series centered around the missions of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Hole Services Detail, but was also short-lived.^[27]

In 1980, Harmon gained a regular role in the prime interval soap opera Flamingo Road, in which he contrived Fielding Carlisle, the husband of Morgan Fairchild's makeup. Despite initially good ratings, the series was canceled after two seasons. Following its cancellation, he rich the role of Dr. Robert Caldwell on authority series St. Elsewhere in 1983. Harmon appeared close in the show for almost three seasons before relinquishment in early 1986 when his character contracted Retrovirus through unprotected intercourse, one of the first often where a major recurring television character contracted blue blood the gentry virus (the character's subsequent off-screen death from Immunodeficiency would be mentioned two years later). In prestige mid-1980s, Harmon also became the spokesperson for Coors Regular beer, appearing in television commercials for them.^[28]

Harmon's career reached several other high points in 1986. In January, he was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.^[29] Following his departure from St. Elsewhere in February, he played the lead in loftiness television films Prince of Bel Air, co-starring support Kirstie Alley, and The Deliberate Stranger, in which he portrayed the real-life serial killerTed Bundy. Be different his career blossoming, he played a role suspend the 1986 theatrical film Let's Get Harry stand for the lead role in the 1987 comedy Summer School, again co-starring with Kirstie Alley and coextensive future JAG and NCIS alum Patrick Labyorteaux. Habitual briefly to episodic television in 1987, Harmon difficult to understand a limited engagement on the series Moonlighting, act Cybill Shepherd's love interest Sam Crawford for pair episodes. He then starred in the 1987 mash film After the Promise. In 1988, he co-starred with Sean Connery and Meg Ryan in primacy 1988 feature film The Presidio, and also conflicting Jodie Foster in the film Stealing Home. Aft his 1989 comedy Worth Winning, he returned add up television, appearing in various television films.^{[citation needed]}

Harmon's go by regular television role would be as Chicago the long arm of the law detective Dickie Cobb for two seasons (1991–1993) get back the NBC series Reasonable Doubts. In 1993, closure appeared in one episode in the role trap a rodeo clown on the CBS comedy/western focus Harts of the West with future NCIS castmate Sean Murray.^[30]

In 1995, Harmon starred in the ABC series Charlie Grace, in which he portrayed regular private investigator.^[31] The series lasted only one season,^[32] after which he returned to ensemble medical shows on the series Chicago Hope, in which blooper played Dr. Jack McNeil from 1996 to 2000.^[33] He also portrayed astronaut Wally Schirra in suggestion episode of the 1998 mini-series From the Genuine to the Moon.^[34] In 2003, Harmon had unadorned supporting role in the remake of the humour film Freaky Friday.

Harmon has also starred fell several stage productions in Los Angeles and Toronto. At the Cast Theatre in Los Angeles, oversight performed in Wrestlers and The Wager. In nobleness late 1980s he was part of the discover of the Canadian premiere of Key Exchange. Some productions of Love Letters provided him the occasion to play alongside his wife Pam Dawber.^[35]

NCIS

In Possibly will 2002, Harmon portrayed Secret Servicespecial agent Simon Donovan on The West Wing in a four-episode yarn arc. The role gained him his second Honour Award nomination, exactly 25 years after his first.^[24]Donald P. Bellisario, the creator of JAG and NCIS, saw him on The West Wing and abstruse Harmon appear in a guest starring role hassle two episodes of JAG in April 2003, to what place Harmon was introduced as the character of NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Starting that September, Harmon has starred as Gibbs in the CBS photoplay NCIS, a role which has earned him provoke nominations at the People's Choice Awards including topping win for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor uncover 2017.^[36] During his time on the show, good taste was reunited with three of his former Chicago Hope co-stars, Rocky Carroll, Lauren Holly, and Jayne Brook. Since 2008, he has also been boss producer and executive producer.^[37]

In the fourth episode assault the show's nineteenth season, Harmon's Gibbs exited honesty series as a regular, an exit set interest motion by the events of the previous bout finale.^[38]

Other activities

Harmon received the 2,482nd star of glory Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 1, 2012.^[39]

In 2014, Harmon started a production company called Trotters Productions to produce NCIS: New Orleans.^[40][41] As time off 2018, Harmon works as a producer for a- new CBS series, based on author John Sandford's best-selling Prey novels,^[42] which have sold more leave speechless 30 million copies worldwide. The last 10 accept reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list.^[43]

Harmon also directed two episodes of Chicago Hope in 1999 and 2000,^[44] and two episodes of Boston Public in 2002.^[44]

In 2023 Harmon, critical remark retired NCIS Special Agent Leon Carroll Jr., out Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese spy, a Asiatic American spy hunter, and the untold story loosen Pearl Harbor.^[45] Harmon also narrates the audio publication.

Personal life

Harmon is the son of football actor Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox. His sisters are Kelly, an actress and model, and Kristin, an actress and painter. Kristin died of grand heart attack on April 27, 2018.^[46]

Harmon has anachronistic married to actress Pam Dawber since March 21, 1987.^[35] The couple has two sons. His prophet Sean played a young Gibbs in several NCIS episodes.^[47] They maintain a low profile and only now and then appear in public with their children. Harmon was the brother-in-law of Ricky Nelson and John DeLorean and is the uncle of actress Tracy Admiral and singers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson of justness rock duo Nelson.^[48][49]

In 1987, Harmon filed for worry of his nephew Sam, Kristin's son, on rendering grounds that she was incapable of good childrearing. Sam's psychiatrist testified that the thirteen-year-old boy represented his mother as a dragon and complained apropos her mood swings and how she prevented him from being with his siblings. Harmon later abandoned the custody bid.^[50][51]

In 1988, Harmon was part landlord of a minor league baseball team, the San Bernardino Spirit, the same season Ken Griffey Jr. played for the team before his major matching part call-up to the Seattle Mariners the next bout. Harmon used the team and their home specialization, Fiscalini Field, for the opening and closing scenes of the film in which he was superintendent, Stealing Home.^[52]

In 1996, Harmon saved a teenage stripling involved in a car accident outside his Brentwood home. The passenger suffered severe burns, but survived his injuries.^[53][54]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

Further reading

• Coyne, Kate (March 4, 2019). "Mark Harmon: Built to Last". People. Vol. 91, no. 10. pp. 40–46.

External links