Lee Majors Net Worth

Lee Majors was conceived by Harvey Lee Yeary in Wyandotte, Michigan on April 23, 1939. Majors' dad was killed in a business-related mishap before he was conceived, and his mom was killed in an auto accident before Majors arrived at the age of two. He was embraced by his auntie and uncle and moved to Kentucky, where he resided until he finished secondary school in 1957. While in school, he was a refined competitor, dominating both track and football.

Sports

Majors' ability in track and on the football field prompted a grant to go to Indiana University. He moved to Eastern Kentucky University in 1959. The next year, he experienced a genuine back physical issue during a football match-up that left him incapacitated for a considerable length of time and furthermore finished his university sports profession. With university sports in his back view, Majors put his focus on turning into a football trainer and proceeded with his scholastics. He moved on from Eastern Kentucky with a degree in History and Physical Education in 1962.

Profession

After graduation, Majors was offered the chance to go for the St. Louis Cardinals football crew, however, rather moved to Los Angeles to turn into a Recreation Director for North Hollywood Park. While in Los Angeles, he met James Dean's representative who recommended he take classes and check to carry on, which he did. Before long he changes his name from Harvey Lee Yeary to Lee Majors out of appreciation for a proficient football player and university mentor Johnny Majors, who was his youth saint. Majors stumbled upon the opportunity of a lifetime when he was chosen north of many other trying-out entertainers for the job of Heath Barkley in the hit TV western The Big Valley, on the ABC organization, a job that would keep going for right around four years. While still on the finance for The Big Valley, Majors started making made-for-TV films. He was likewise offered the lead in the big-screen creation Midnight Cowboy, with Dustin Hoffman. In any case, the recording of Midnight Cowboy clashed with the creative plan for The Big Valley and he needed to decrease; the job was at the end given to Jon Voight, acquiring him an Academy Award assignment for Best Actor.

At the point when The Big Valley was dropped in 1969, Majors showed up in a progression of little TV jobs however in 1973 he started work on the show that would become inseparable from his name, The Six Million Dollar Man.

 How old is lee Majors assumed the part of previous space traveler and U.S. Flying corps Colonel Steve Austin, who was harmed in a NASA practice run. In a daily existence saving activity, his person was furnished with bionic appendages which gave him godlike strength and speed, and an automated eye with infrared and zoom abilities which proved to be useful in his work as a spy.

The show was massively famous and ran from 1973 to 1978, and was a promoting beast, selling everything from activity figures and shirts to kids' lunchboxes.