September 2: Happy Birthday Mark Harmon

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Mark Harmon is 66 today. He was the son of 1940 Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon, and started at quarterback for UCLA for two seasons in the early 1970s. He got his first acting job through his older sister Kristin, who was married to Ricky Nelson—he made a guest appearance on Ozzie’s Girls. During the 1970s he made a number of guest appearances on series like Adam-12, Laverne & Shirley, and Police Woman, and was an Emmy nominee for the TV movie Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.

In the 1980s Harmon had a short run as a major film actor, starring in films like Summer School, The Presidio, and Stealing Home. But mostly he has worked on television. The first couple of times he landed a regular series role, the series ended up canceled after no more than a season, but eventually he got some more successful gigs. Medical dramas have been pretty good to him, as he was a regular on St. Elsewhere in the mid-eighties, and on Chicago Hope in the late 1990s. But his most successful TV role, one he’s played for nearly 15 years, has been as the Marine Scout Sniper turned criminal investigator Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.