Mark Harmon

Mark Harmon

  • Birthday: 1951-09-02
  • Place of birth: Burbank, California, USA

Biography

Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor, producer and director. He is known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS (2003-2021), a role which has earned him six nominations at the People's Choice Awards including a win for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor in 2017. Since 2008, he has also been a producer and executive producer of the show as well as its' spinoff series NCIS: New Orleans. His character of NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was introduced in a guest starring role in two episodes of JAG, and continued on the spinoff show NCIS. He had a recurring role as Secret Service special agent Simon Donovan in a four-episode story arc in The West Wing in 2002, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. One of his first national TV appearances (other than as an athlete) was in a commercial for Kellogg's Product 19 cereal with his father, Tom Harmon, its longstanding TV spokesman. Thanks to his sister Kristin's in-laws, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, he landed his first job as an actor in an episode of Ozzie's Girls. He has been starring in television and film since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. He's been married to actress Pam Dawber since 1987 and they have 2 sons. His son, actor Sean Harmon, had a recurring role as a young Leeroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.

Filmography

Original Sins

1995

As Johnathan Franye

Magic in the Water

1995

As Jack Black

Worth Winning

1989

As Taylor Worth

Stealing Home

1988

As Billy Wyatt

Summer School

1987

As Mr. Freddy Shoop

Local Boys

2002

As Jim Wesley

The Deliberate Stranger

1986

As Ted Bundy

After the Promise

1987

As Elmer Jackson

Certain Prey

2011

As Lucas Davenport

Tuareg: Desert Warrior

1984

As Gacel Sayah

And Never Let Her Go

2001

As Thomas Capano

Prince of Bel Air

1986

As Robin Prince

For All Time

2000

As Charles Lattimer

Long Road Home

1991

As Ertie Robertson

Shadow of a Doubt

1991

As Charles Spencer

Dillinger

1991

As John Dillinger

Till There Was You

1991

As Frank Flynn

Fourth Story

1991

As David Shepard

The Wild

2019

As Self

The Presidio

1988

As Jay Austin

Sweet Bird of Youth

1989

As Chance Wayne

Cold Heaven

1992

As Alex Davenport

Casualties

1997

As Tommy Nance

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

2010

As Clark Kent / Superman (voice)

Intimate Agony

1983

As Tommy

The First to Go

1997

As Jeremy Hampton

Freaky Friday

2003

As Ryan

I'll Remember April

2001

As John Cooper

Flamingo Road

1980

As Fielding Carlyle

Getting Married

1978

As Howie Lesser

Comes a Horseman

1978

As Billy Joe Meynert

Weather Girl

2009

As Dale

Little Mo

1978

As Norman Brinker

Wyatt Earp

1994

As Sheriff Johnny Behan

Let's Get Harry

1986

As Harry

Chasing Liberty

2004

As James Foster

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998

As Magazine Reporter

Crossfire Trail

2001

As Bruce Barkow

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

As Larry Simpson

The Last Supper

1995

As Dominant Male

Sonic Boom

1974

As Student Controller

The Amati Girls

2001

As Lawrence

Natural Born Killers

1994

As Mickey Knox in TV

Production

Certain Prey

2011

As Executive Producer

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