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At this time, he picked up the stage name Lee Majors as a tribute to childhood hero Johnny Majors who was a player and future coach for the University of Tennessee. After one year of acting school, Clayton felt that Majors was ready to start his career. In Los Angeles, Majors met many actors and industry professionals, including Dick Clayton, who had been James Dean's agent, and Clayton suggested he attend his acting school. Instead, he moved to Los Angeles and found work at the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Department as the recreation director for North Hollywood Park.

Īfter college, he received an offer to try out for the St. Majors graduated from Eastern Kentucky in 1962 with a degree in history and physical education. Following his injury, he turned his attention to acting and performed in plays at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky. He played in his first football game the following year, but suffered a severe back injury which left him paralyzed for two weeks and ruined his college athletic career. Majors transferred to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1959. He graduated in 1957, and earned a scholarship to Indiana University, where he again competed in sports. He participated in track and football at Middlesboro High School. (His father died in a work accident six months prior to his birth, and his mother was killed in a car accident when he was almost eighteen months old.) At the age of two, Majors was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, and he moved with them to Middlesboro, Kentucky. His parents, Carl and Alice Yeary, were both killed in separate accidents. Majors was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Majors portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley in the American television Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers in American television action series The Fall Guy (1981–1986). Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary April 23, 1939) is an American actor.