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 Thomas Mark Harmon was born on September 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, to football player and broadcaster Tom Harmon and actress and artist Elyse Knox (n��e Kornbrath). Harmon played college football and found success as one of TV's hunkiest actors. While many of his roles have relied on good looks, Harmon was impressive on St. Elsewhere (1982) as the suave doctor who contracted AIDS.His sisters are Kelly Harmon, the Tic Tac model; and Kristin Harmon, a painter and ex-wife of musician Ricky Nelson. He is the uncle of musicians Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson of the band Nelson, and actress Tracy Nelson. In 1987, Harmon and his wife, actress Pam Dawber, sued his sister Kristin Harmon, for custody of her youngest son, Sam.
Bio:
Thomas Mark Harmon was born on September 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, to football player and broadcaster Tom Harmon and actress and artist Elyse Knox (n��e Kornbrath). Harmon played college football and found success as one of TV's hunkiest actors. While many of his roles have relied on good looks, Harmon was impressive on St. Elsewhere (1982) as the suave doctor who contracted AIDS.His sisters are Kelly Harmon, the Tic Tac model; and Kristin Harmon, a painter and ex-wife of musician Ricky Nelson. He is the uncle of musicians Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson of the band Nelson, and actress Tracy Nelson. In 1987, Harmon and his wife, actress Pam Dawber, sued his sister Kristin Harmon, for custody of her youngest son, Sam.
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Risked his life to save two teenage boys who were involved in a car accident outside of his home. Harmon used a sledgehammer from his garage to break the window out of their car, then pulled them free so they wouldn't be burned to death, while his wife, Pam Dawber, called 911. He made every effort to downplay his role in saving their lives. (1996)He graduated cum laude from UCLA with a degree in communications (1974). Also played quarterback for UCLA Bruins, winning National Football Foundation Award for all-around excellence (1972-73).When he was 16 years old, at his after-school job delivering flowers, he found a dozen roses addressed to a girl who was dating a friend of his. But the roses weren't from his friend. Mark threw away the card and substituted one with his friend's name on it.Mark studied American Sign Language for his various television roles with The Sign Company.Early in his career, he was known for being the face of Coors beer, for doing more than 20 Coors beer commercials in the early 1980s.His oldest son, Sean Harmon, portrayed a young Gibbs on NCIS (2003).Was paid $2,000,000 for doing the Coors commercials back in the 1980s.After his very successful college football career at UCLA, he was offered the opportunity to turn professional with a contract to play for the NFL New England Patriots. It wasn't an easy decision but he turned it down. He didn't think he was good enough, but mainly thought that college was about getting an education and making something out of it, as opposed to using college to build a career as a jock.Mark and Pam Dawber married on March 21, 1987, exactly one year after they met. They met on March 21, 1986.Worked as a carpenter before he hit it big, foretelling the carpentry and wooden boat-building interest and skills of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the character he plays on NCIS (2003).Mark has been known to wear shirts that were sent to him by his fans.He broke an eardrum while shooting Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979).He was cast as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS (2003) after series creator/producer Donald P. Bellisario saw his commanding performance as a Secret Service agent on The West Wing (1999).Studied pre-med in college before transferring to communications. He later played doctors on St. Elsewhere (1982) and Chicago Hope (1994).Mark's father was of three-quarters Irish ancestry, with the rest being French and German. The family surname was changed from Hermann to Harmon several generations back. Mark's maternal grandparents were Austrian (from Vienna).On the set of NCIS (2003), Mark uses a 1972 Airstream trailer that he restored himself as a dressing room. The trailer has red-and-white checkered floors, and an 8-track player.Mark has broken his shoulder twice. Once during the filming of the movie Summer School (1987), and another incident while filming a Coors beer commercial.In his first UCLA game, Mark led the Bruins to a 20-17 underdog win over Nebraska, snapping the two-time defending national champion's 32-game winning streak.One of the most notorious characters that Mark played was serial killer Ted Bundy in the television movie The Deliberate Stranger (1986).First television appearance was with his father in a commercial for Kellogg's Product 19 cereal.Uncle of Tracy Nelson, Matthew Nelson, Gunnar Nelson, and Sam Nelson.His favorite actors are Gary Cooper, Buster Keaton, and William S. Hart. The license plates on his 1956 Dodge pickup and 1984 Porsche read YUHP and UH-HUH-both common Gary Cooper sayings.In 2011, he was voted the fourth-most-popular actor on prime-time television.Was a big runner after college; used to run 60 to 70 miles a week.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 1, 2012.When he was younger, he bore a strong resemblance to Ricky Nelson, which subsequently led him to be misidentified in newspapers as Nelson's brother when they were actually only brothers-in-law.When he was younger, he ran 45 miles a week.His legendary father, Tom Harmon, played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines (1938-40), winning the 1940 Heisman Trophy, emblematic of the best player in the nation, for his efforts.Was a marathon runner and knows how to play the guitar.Bought his first car when he was 13: a 1928 Ford.Before they were married, Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber once went on a double date with Julianne Phillips and Bruce Springsteen.His first paid acting gig was playing a gorilla on Ozzie's Girls (1973). The show's titular star and producer, Ozzie Nelson, was his relative by marriage.His Airstream trailer can be seen in NCIS (2003) flashback scenes in "Hiatus: Parts 1 and 2". In the season 2 episode "Black Water". his trailer and his 1984 Porsche can be seen in the back lot of the television studio as Gibbs and DiNozzo arrive to interview Celina Lockhart.Mark received a call from the producers during the summer between seasons 3 and 4 of NCIS (2003) telling him to stop shaving, because his character Jethro Gibbs was to have a more gruff look, along with a mustache.Favorite television series while growing up was Combat! (1962).He was considered for the role of Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction (1987), which went to Michael Douglas.He loves dogs. He once had an Australian shepherd, a golden retriever, and a bearded collie.Has played the same character (Leroy Jethro Gibbs) in five different series: JAG (1995), NCIS (2003), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Family Guy (1999) and NCIS: New Orleans (2014).Almost chose to play football for Oklahoma. Later, he decided to play for the Bruins because their program was on a downswing and he wanted to help turn it around.He now does pilates to keep in shape.Gary Cooper is his acting idol, due to the respect Mark has for Cooper's acting philosophy.Has a 1951 Woody that he and his father restored.Mark received the nickname 'Quarterback' because his dad was an announcer for the football games that Mark played in when he was younger. His father did not want to call Mark by name, so instead he called him Quarterback.He broke his collarbone during a spring practice football scrimmage at UCLA (1973).His mother, Elyse Knox - who was married to the legendary Tom Harmon - passed away on February 15, 2012, at age 94.Had two famous (or infamous) brothers-in-law: car magnate John DeLorean, who was convicted in federal court of drug charges related to raising money to keep his car company afloat with drug proceeds, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ricky Nelson, who died from severe burns in a DC-3 plane crash that was, at one time, thought to have been caused by Ricky was using the gas heater on the plane to ignite drugs. The drug theory was later discounted.His godfather, Forest Evashevski, is in the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame for coaching.Mark has an abducted left knee from his football career.Was a national shoe representative for Adidas in the 1970s.Chosen as People magazine's second annual "Sexiest Man Alive", between inaugural winner Mel Gibson, who won for 1985, and third year winner Harry Hamlin, who won for 1987. (1986) |
| Name: |
Mark Harmon |
Type: |
Actor,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Actor,Producer,Director |
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Actor,Producer,Director |
| Model rank: |
23 |
| Last update: |
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| Height: |
6' (1.83 m) |
| Biography: |
Thomas Mark Harmon was born on September 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, to football player and broadcaster Tom Harmon and actress and artist Elyse Knox (n��e Kornbrath). Harmon played college football and found success as one of TV\'s hunkiest ac |
| Trivia: |
Risked his life to save two teenage boys who were involved in a car accident outside of his home. Harmon used a sledgehammer from his garage to break the window out of their car, then pulled them free so they wouldn't be burned to death, while his wife, Pam Dawber, called 911. He made every effort to downplay his role in saving their lives. (1996)He graduated cum laude from UCLA with a degree in communications (1974). Also played quarterback for UCLA Bruins, winning National Football Foundation Award for all-around excellence (1972-73).When he was 16 years old, at his after-school job delivering flowers, he found a dozen roses addressed to a girl who was dating a friend of his. But the roses weren't from his friend. Mark threw away the card and substituted one with his friend's name on it.Mark studied American Sign Language for his various television roles with The Sign Company.Early in his career, he was known for being the face of Coors beer, for doing more than 20 Coors beer commercials in the early 1980s.His oldest son, Sean Harmon, portrayed a young Gibbs on NCIS (2003).Was paid $2,000,000 for doing the Coors commercials back in the 1980s.After his very successful college football career at UCLA, he was offered the opportunity to turn professional with a contract to play for the NFL New England Patriots. It wasn't an easy decision but he turned it down. He didn't think he was good enough, but mainly thought that college was about getting an education and making something out of it, as opposed to using college to build a career as a jock.Mark and Pam Dawber married on March 21, 1987, exactly one year after they met. They met on March 21, 1986.Worked as a carpenter before he hit it big, foretelling the carpentry and wooden boat-building interest and skills of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the character he plays on NCIS (2003).Mark has been known to wear shirts that were sent to him by his fans.He broke an eardrum while shooting Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979).He was cast as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS (2003) after series creator/producer Donald P. Bellisario saw his commanding performance as a Secret Service agent on The West Wing (1999).Studied pre-med in college before transferring to communications. He later played doctors on St. Elsewhere (1982) and Chicago Hope (1994).Mark's father was of three-quarters Irish ancestry, with the rest being French and German. The family surname was changed from Hermann to Harmon several generations back. Mark's maternal grandparents were Austrian (from Vienna).On the set of NCIS (2003), Mark uses a 1972 Airstream trailer that he restored himself as a dressing room. The trailer has red-and-white checkered floors, and an 8-track player.Mark has broken his shoulder twice. Once during the filming of the movie Summer School (1987), and another incident while filming a Coors beer commercial.In his first UCLA game, Mark led the Bruins to a 20-17 underdog win over Nebraska, snapping the two-time defending national champion's 32-game winning streak.One of the most notorious characters that Mark played was serial killer Ted Bundy in the television movie The Deliberate Stranger (1986).First television appearance was with his father in a commercial for Kellogg's Product 19 cereal.Uncle of Tracy Nelson, Matthew Nelson, Gunnar Nelson, and Sam Nelson.His favorite actors are Gary Cooper, Buster Keaton, and William S. Hart. The license plates on his 1956 Dodge pickup and 1984 Porsche read YUHP and UH-HUH-both common Gary Cooper sayings.In 2011, he was voted the fourth-most-popular actor on prime-time television.Was a big runner after college; used to run 60 to 70 miles a week.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 1, 2012.When he was younger, he bore a strong resemblance to Ricky Nelson, which subsequently led him to be misidentified in newspapers as Nelson's brother when they were actually only brothers-in-law.When he was younger, he ran 45 miles a week.His legendary father, Tom Harmon, played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines (1938-40), winning the 1940 Heisman Trophy, emblematic of the best player in the nation, for his efforts.Was a marathon runner and knows how to play the guitar.Bought his first car when he was 13: a 1928 Ford.Before they were married, Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber once went on a double date with Julianne Phillips and Bruce Springsteen.His first paid acting gig was playing a gorilla on Ozzie's Girls (1973). The show's titular star and producer, Ozzie Nelson, was his relative by marriage.His Airstream trailer can be seen in NCIS (2003) flashback scenes in "Hiatus: Parts 1 and 2". In the season 2 episode "Black Water". his trailer and his 1984 Porsche can be seen in the back lot of the television studio as Gibbs and DiNozzo arrive to interview Celina Lockhart.Mark received a call from the producers during the summer between seasons 3 and 4 of NCIS (2003) telling him to stop shaving, because his character Jethro Gibbs was to have a more gruff look, along with a mustache.Favorite television series while growing up was Combat! (1962).He was considered for the role of Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction (1987), which went to Michael Douglas.He loves dogs. He once had an Australian shepherd, a golden retriever, and a bearded collie.Has played the same character (Leroy Jethro Gibbs) in five different series: JAG (1995), NCIS (2003), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Family Guy (1999) and NCIS: New Orleans (2014).Almost chose to play football for Oklahoma. Later, he decided to play for the Bruins because their program was on a downswing and he wanted to help turn it around.He now does pilates to keep in shape.Gary Cooper is his acting idol, due to the respect Mark has for Cooper's acting philosophy.Has a 1951 Woody that he and his father restored.Mark received the nickname 'Quarterback' because his dad was an announcer for the football games that Mark played in when he was younger. His father did not want to call Mark by name, so instead he called him Quarterback.He broke his collarbone during a spring practice football scrimmage at UCLA (1973).His mother, Elyse Knox - who was married to the legendary Tom Harmon - passed away on February 15, 2012, at age 94.Had two famous (or infamous) brothers-in-law: car magnate John DeLorean, who was convicted in federal court of drug charges related to raising money to keep his car company afloat with drug proceeds, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ricky Nelson, who died from severe burns in a DC-3 plane crash that was, at one time, thought to have been caused by Ricky was using the gas heater on the plane to ignite drugs. The drug theory was later discounted.His godfather, Forest Evashevski, is in the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame for coaching.Mark has an abducted left knee from his football career.Was a national shoe representative for Adidas in the 1970s.Chosen as People magazine's second annual "Sexiest Man Alive", between inaugural winner Mel Gibson, who won for 1985, and third year winner Harry Hamlin, who won for 1987. (1986) |
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Silver hair and blue eyes |
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I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years I realise I must enjoy walking that edge, I keep doing it. It's why I like what I do. The only other job I've ever had that provides that time in the morning where you're going to work and you can't wait to get there and the sun's rising and you're moving toward something you look forward to getting up and doing every day was being a carpenter. And it was because you're doing something different every day.
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I have never done any job for the security or the money. I believe in trying to find an area to get better, to learn more about why I am here.
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It's funny, the fame and money part isn't even in the top 10, to be honest. It's important to have a job you like going to, for me. And it's important to know I have a hand in making sure that the 400 people who work on this show know they have a job to come back to. That's something I don't take lightly.
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I have to be challenged. The busier I am, the better I like it.
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If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars. |
| Salaries: |
NCIS (2003) - (season 9) $500,000 per episode.
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NCIS (2003) - $325,000 /episode (2009-10)
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NCIS (2003) - $375,000 /episode (2010-11)
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NCIS (2003) - $500,000 per episode
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| Job title: |
Actor,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(July 10, 1987) Guest on "Live on Five".
(2014) CBS Cares TV commercial, "1 Million Care Packages to Our Troops," for Operation Gratitude and operationgratitude.com. |
| Spouse: |
Pam Dawber (March 21, 1987 - present) (2 children) |
| Children: |
Ty HarmonSean Harmon |
| Parents: |
Tom Harmon
Elyse Knox |
| Relatives: |
Kelly Harmon (Sibling)
Kristin Harmon (Sibling)
Matthew Nelson (Niece or Nephew)
Gunnar Nelson (Niece or Nephew)
Tracy Nelson (Niece or Nephew)
Sam Nelson (Niece or Nephew) |
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