Mark Harmon

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Mark Harmon at the award ceremony for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2012)

Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951 in Burbank near Los Angeles ) is an American actor , director and television producer .

Life

Harmon's mother was Elyse Knox (1917–2012), who also worked as an actress. His father was American football player and winner of the 1940 Heisman Trophy Tom Harmon (1919–1990). He played college football for the University of Michigan and later for the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League (NFL). Harmon grew up with two sisters. His niece is the actress Tracy Nelson . His maternal grandmother comes from the Austrian capital Vienna . Harmon studied at the University of California , where he was part of the university's football team in 1972 and 1973 and played on the team as a quarterback . In 1973 he was awarded the National Football Foundation Award . In 1974 he graduated.

From 1983 Harmon played in the television series Chief Doctor Dr. Westphall the role of Dr. Robert Caldwell . After two seasons, he asked the series writers to give his character more depth. At this request, the writers wrote the character from the series by getting HIV. In 1986, People magazine named him the Sexiest Man Alive . In the same year Harmon played serial killer Ted Bundy in Marvin J. Chomsky's film Nightmare of Horror for television and received a Golden Globe nomination for it.

In 1988 Harmon starred in the films Presidio alongside Sean Connery and Meg Ryan and in Katie's Desire alongside Jodie Foster . He is also known from the TV series Flamingo Road and Chicago Hope . For the role of the cop Dicky Cobb in the television series The Prosecutor and the Cop , he was nominated again for the Golden Globe Award in 1992 and 1993.

In addition to his appearances in various films and television series, Mark Harmon has also made a name for himself in the theater. In addition to his role as Bobby in Wrestlers, he worked on The Wager and the Canadian premiere of Key Exchange . He played alongside his wife Pam Dawber in various performances of Love Letters . As a director, he has staged two episodes each of the series Chicago Hope - Endstation Hope and Boston Public .

Since 2003 Harmon has played the role of special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the television series Navy CIS , in which he has also been a producer since the sixth season .

Harmon has been married to actress Pam Dawber since 1987 , who played Mindy in the television series Mork vom Ork ( Mork and Mindy ) opposite Robin Williams (Mork). Harmon has two sons with her, Sean Thomas Harmon (* 1988) and Ty Christian Harmon (* 1992). Sean plays the young Gibbs in several episodes of Navy CIS .

Voice actor

He was dubbed by Mathias Einert in the series Flamingo Road and in the feature film Presidio . The spokesperson for The Dream Factory was Norbert Langer . Andreas Thieck spoke his character in the series Chicago Hope . The German voice of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the series Navy CIS has been given to him by Wolfgang Condrus since 2003 .

Filmography (selection)

Mark Harmon (2006)

Awards and nominations

People Magazine

  • 1986: Sexiest Man Alive

Primetime Emmy Award

  • 1977: Nominated, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie - Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
  • 2002: Nominated, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series - The West Wing

Golden Globe Award

  • 1986: Nominated, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film - The Deliberate Stranger
  • 1987: Nominated, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film - After The Promise
  • 1991: Nominated, Best Actor in a Television Series Drama - Reasonable Doubts
  • 1992: Nominated, Best Actor in a Television Series Drama - Reasonable Doubts

Screen Actors Guild Award

  • 1996: nominated, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope
  • 1997: nominated, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope

People's Choice Award

  • 2010: nominated, Favorite TV Drama Actor - NCIS
  • 2011: nominated, Favorite TV Crime Fighter - NCIS

Hollywood Walk of Fame

  • 2012: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Web links

Commons : Mark Harmon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Nolasco: 'NCIS' star Mark Harmon and sister Kristin Harmon Nelson endured a family feud over drugs, report says . In: Fox News . May 10, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ Mark Harmon robbed CIS agents WAZ, June 4, 2010
  3. ^ Football stats by Mark Harmon
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seanharmon.de
  5. ↑ Mark Harmon, star of Navy CIS He also pushes on Christmas Eve service FAZ, December 24, 2012
  6. ^ Andreas Thieck in the German synchronous file
  7. ^ Cover of People magazine, January 27, 1986
personal data
SURNAME Harmon, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harmon, Thomas Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Burbank, Los Angeles County