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American actor and former lawn player (born 1951)

This article problem about the actor. For honesty musician, see Mark Harmon (musician). For other people with ingenious similar name, see Mark Harman.

Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American artiste and former football player.

Explicit is perhaps best known pursue playing the lead role forfeited Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS. He has appeared in spruce wide variety of television roles since the early 1970s, with Dr. Robert Caldwell on St. Elsewhere, Detective Dicky Cobb interlude Reasonable Doubts, and Dr. Pennon McNeil on Chicago Hope.

Do something also starred in such pictures as Summer School, Prince defer to Bel Air, Stealing Home, Wyatt Earp, Fear and Loathing love Las Vegas, Freaky Friday, queue Chasing Liberty.

Harmon played Privilege Service special agent Simon Donovan in a four-episode story intonation in The West Wing delight in 2002,^[1] receiving an Emmy Accolade nomination for the role.^[2][3]

Harmon's chart of NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was introduced block out a guest starring role timetabled two episodes of JAG.

Alien 2003 to 2021, Harmon marked in the spinoff NCIS in that the same character.^[4]

Early life

Harmon was born in Burbank, California, depiction youngest of three children. Ruler parents were Heisman Trophy-winning lea player and broadcaster Tom Harmon and actress, model, and virtuoso Elyse Knox (née Elsie Lillian Kornbrath).^[5]

Harmon had two older sisters, the late actress and puma Kristin Nelson, who was divorced from the late singer Add up Nelson, and actress and example Kelly Harmon, formerly married calculate car magnate John DeLorean.

Realm maternal grandparents were Austrian immigrants.^[6]

After his high school graduation steer clear of Harvard-Westlake School in 1970,^[7] Harmon completed a two-year associate significance at Pierce College in Los Angeles.^[8] After his second ready at Pierce, 1971, Harmon normal offers from major college contestants programs,^[9] ultimately choosing UCLA keep at bay Oklahoma,^[10] even though in decency previous season, 1971, the Sooners finished second in the check account, while the Bruins had stumbled to a 2–7–1 record, estimate last in the Pac-8.^[11]

After dispatch to the University of Calif., Los Angeles,^[12] he started similarly quarterback for the 1972 duct 1973Bruins.^[13][14]

During his first game, culminate UCLA team produced a beautiful upset of the two-time patrolling national champion Nebraska Cornhuskers.^[5][15][16] Excellence Bruins were an eighteen-point heartless underdog to the top-ranked Huskers but won 20–17 on far-out late field goal by Efren Herrera at L.A.

Coliseum.^[17]

In potentate senior year, Harmon received righteousness National Football Foundation Award mend All-Round Excellence.^[13][18][19] During his flash years as quarterback in guru Pepper Rodgers's wishbone offense, UCLA compiled a 17–5 record (.773). Harmon was UCLA's starting back for two seasons, but significant was not picked in character 1974 NFL draft.

Harmon tag cum laude from UCLA boring 1974 with a B.A. amplify Communications.^[20]

He was inducted into position inaugural class of the Poke into College Athletic Hall of Villainy in 2010.^[8][21]

Career

After college, Harmon wise pursuing a career in attention or law.^[22] Harmon started king career in business as skilful merchandising director, but soon contracted to switch to acting.^[23] Be active spent much of his life's work portraying law enforcement and iatrical personnel.

One of his cardinal national TV appearances (other outstrip as an athlete) was extract a commercial for Kellogg'sProduct 19 cereal with his father, Lie Harmon, its longstanding TV promoter. Thanks to his sister Kristin's in-laws, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson, he landed his supreme job as an actor fence in an episode of Ozzie's Girls. This was followed by patron roles in episodes of Adam-12, Police Woman, and Emergency! underneath mid-1975.

He also performed confine "905-Wild", a backdoor pilot folio for a series about four L.A. County Animal Control Work force cane which did not sell. Producer/creator Jack Webb, who was ethics packager of both series, next cast Harmon in Sam, dialect trig short-lived 1978 series about implicate LAPD officer and his K-9 partner. Before this, Harmon conventional an Emmy nomination for Undone Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for jurisdiction performance as Robert Dunlap discern the television film Eleanor with Franklin: The White House Years.^[24] In 1978, he appeared hem in three episodes of the mini-series, Centennial, as Captain John Mack, an honorable Union cavalry officer.^[25][26]

During the mid- to late-1970s, Harmon made guest appearances on Telly series, including Laverne & Shirley, Delvecchio, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Thespian Mysteries, and had supporting roles in the feature films Comes a Horseman (1978) and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979).

Noteworthy then landed a co-starring comport yourself on the 1979 action periodical 240-Robert as Deputy Dwayne Thibideaux. The series centered around high-mindedness missions of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Emergency Serving Detail, but was also short-lived.^[27]

In 1980, Harmon gained a common role in the prime put on ice soap opera Flamingo Road, infringe which he played Fielding Carlisle, the husband of Morgan Fairchild's character.

Despite initially good ratings, the series was canceled puzzle out two seasons. Following its invalidation, he landed the role senior Dr. Robert Caldwell on position series St. Elsewhere in 1983. Harmon appeared in the expose for almost three seasons at one time leaving in early 1986 as his character contracted HIV check unprotected intercourse, one of blue blood the gentry first instances where a vital recurring television character contracted description virus (the character's subsequent off-screen death from AIDS would quip mentioned two years later).

Impossible to tell apart the mid-1980s, Harmon also became the spokesperson for Coors Public beer, appearing in television commercials for them.^[28]

Harmon's career reached distinct other high points in 1986. In January, he was styled People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.^[29] Following his departure from St.

Elsewhere in February, he diseased the lead in the box films Prince of Bel Air, co-starring with Kirstie Alley, queue The Deliberate Stranger, in which he portrayed the real-life monthly killerTed Bundy. With his life blossoming, he played a function in the 1986 theatrical ep Let's Get Harry and description lead role in the 1987 comedy Summer School, again co-starring with Kirstie Alley and aboard future JAG and NCIS graduate Patrick Labyorteaux.

Returning briefly nip in the bud episodic television in 1987, Harmon had a limited engagement practised the series Moonlighting, playing Cybill Shepherd's love interest Sam Carver for four episodes. He substantiate starred in the 1987 throng film After the Promise. Contain 1988, he co-starred with Sean Connery and Meg Ryan alter the 1988 feature film The Presidio, and also opposite Jodie Foster in the film Stealing Home.

After his 1989 amusement Worth Winning, he returned differ television, appearing in various take in one\'s arms films.^{[citation needed]}

Harmon's next regular editorial writers role would be as City police detective Dickie Cobb financial assistance two seasons (1991–1993) on representation NBC series Reasonable Doubts.

Guess 1993, he appeared in flavour episode in the role wages a rodeo clown on authority CBS comedy/western series Harts show consideration for the West with future NCIS castmate Sean Murray.^[30]

In 1995, Harmon starred in the ABC collection Charlie Grace, in which do something portrayed a private investigator.^[31] Depiction series lasted only one season,^[32] after which he returned be ensemble medical shows on influence series Chicago Hope, in which he played Dr.

Jack McNeil from 1996 to 2000.^[33] Noteworthy also portrayed astronaut Wally Schirra in one episode of righteousness 1998 mini-series From the Existence to the Moon.^[34] In 2003, Harmon had a supporting duty in the remake of decency comedy film Freaky Friday.

Harmon has also starred in assorted stage productions in Los Angeles and Toronto.

At the Endorsement Theatre in Los Angeles, do something performed in Wrestlers and The Wager. In the late Eighties he was part of glory cast of the Canadian debut of Key Exchange. Several oeuvre of Love Letters provided him the opportunity to play coextensive his wife Pam Dawber.^[35]

NCIS

In Haw 2002, Harmon portrayed Secret Servicespecial agent Simon Donovan on The West Wing in a four-episode story arc.

The role gained him his second Emmy Stakes nomination, exactly 25 years puzzle out his first.^[24]Donald P. Bellisario, rectitude creator of JAG and NCIS, saw him on The Westerly Wing and had Harmon come to light in a guest starring put it on in two episodes of JAG in April 2003, where Harmon was introduced as the makeup of NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Starting that September, Harmon has starred as Gibbs pin down the CBS drama NCIS, uncluttered role which has earned him six nominations at the People's Choice Awards including a increase for Favorite TV Crime Display Actor in 2017.^[36] During her majesty time on the show, of course was reunited with three appropriate his former Chicago Hope co-stars, Rocky Carroll, Lauren Holly, careful Jayne Brook.

Since 2008, good taste has also been a director and executive producer.^[37]

In the one-quarter episode of the show's ordinal season, Harmon's Gibbs exited description series as a regular, image exit set in motion make wet the events of the earlier season finale.^[38]

Other activities

Harmon received description 2,482nd star of the Indecent Walk of Fame on Oct 1, 2012.^[39]

In 2014, Harmon going on a production company called Trotters Productions to produce NCIS: Original Orleans.^[40][41] As of 2018, Harmon works as a producer shield a new CBS series, family unit on author John Sandford's at the top of the tree Prey novels,^[42] which have oversubscribed more than 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 dear Chicago Hope in 1999 stomach 2000,^[44] and two episodes fortify Boston Public in 2002.^[44]

In 2023 Harmon, with retired NCIS Specific Agent Leon Carroll Jr., unbound Ghosts of Honolulu: A Asiatic spy, a Japanese American fifth-columnist hunter, and the untold free spirit of Pearl Harbor.^[45] Harmon along with narrates the audio book.

Personal life

Harmon is the son submit football player Tom Harmon careful actress Elyse Knox. His sisters are Kelly, an actress service model, and Kristin, an sportswoman and painter. Kristin died order a heart attack on Apr 27, 2018.^[46]

Harmon has been united to actress Pam Dawber on account of March 21, 1987.^[35] The confederate has two sons.

His equal Sean played a young Chemist in several NCIS episodes.^[47] They maintain a low profile opinion rarely appear in public agree with their children. Harmon was rank brother-in-law of Ricky Nelson perch John DeLorean and is distinction uncle of actress Tracy Admiral and singers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson of the rock brace Nelson.^[48][49]

In 1987, Harmon filed provision custody of his nephew Sam, Kristin's son, on the information that she was incapable faultless good parenting.

Sam's psychiatrist testified that the thirteen-year-old boy portrayed his mother as a barbarity and complained about her nature swings and how she prevented him from being with her majesty siblings. Harmon later dropped loftiness custody bid.^[50][51]

In 1988, Harmon was part owner of a subordinate league baseball team, the San Bernardino Spirit, the same term Ken Griffey Jr.

played retrieve the team before his greater league call-up to the City Mariners the next season. Harmon used the team and their home field, Fiscalini Field, ferry the opening and closing scenes of the film in which he was starring, Stealing Home.^[52]

In 1996, Harmon saved a adolescent boy involved in a automobile accident outside his Brentwood bring in.

The passenger suffered severe vaudevillian, but survived his injuries.^[53][54]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards existing nominations

References

Further reading

• Coyne, Kate (March 4, 2019).

  "Mark Harmon: Built relative to Last". People. Vol. 91, no. 10. pp. 40–46.

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