At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff - there are rehearsals separated from the rest of the show to try and make it as realistic as possible.
At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.
How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?
I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years I realize I must enjoy walking that edge, I keep doing it.
I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.
I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.
I tried to pick up some speech patterns from a couple of different Presidents, but other than that, I just wanted to play the role believable.
I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.
I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.
I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.
It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
McNeil and I are very different people. McNeil is the guy you hope does your surgery, but not the kind of guy you wanna have dinner with.
People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.
Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.
St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show.
The fact that I've been doing this for 20 years is in some ways invigorating for me.
The location stuff, I didn't enjoy. That's what life is - you pack a bag, you go where the work is.
The only other job I've ever had where you can't wait to get there was being a carpenter. It was because you're doing something different every day.
When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.
The recent "Step Up to the Plate with Mark Harmon" event hosted by Oklahoma Sports Science and Orthopaedics (OSSO) brought in receipts of $243,785. Proceeds from the event benefited The Children's Center. The event, in its 6th year, brought Mark Harmon, star of the hit CBS television series NCIS, and his Bombers baseball team to OKC on Saturday, June 3, 2006, for the annual celebrity charity baseball game. Celebrities who joined Harmon as members of the Bombers include Hollywood producer/director Frank Marshall, producer of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Bourne Identity," "The Bourne Supremacy," "Seabiscuit" and "The Sixth Sense." Most recently, Marshall directed the family movie "Eight Below." Other celebrities included former major league baseball players Rick Sutcliffe and Wally Joyner. The Bombers played the Oklahoma Sports Science and Orthopaedics (OSSO) Outlaws, a team of physicians and staff members of the medical organization.
Mark Harmon Awards: 2002 Emmy: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee 1977 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie - Nominee 1993 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee 1992 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee 1988 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee 1987 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
Mark has appeared totally naked in only two movies. Sweetbird of Youth and Basic Deception.
Mark had made over 20 Coors Beer commercials.
Mark played Robin Prince in 'Prince of Bel Air', a made for TV film also starring Kirstie Alley. It was filmed in 1986.
Mary Hart believes that Mark Harmon's NCIS character Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs "has a great sense of humour, but his memory needs a little help".
Pretty boy. Those were the two words that came to Don Bellisario's mind when he first considered hiring Mark Harmon as the star of his naval-themed CBS crime drama NCIS. How on earth, he wondered, could the six-foot-tall, salt-and-pepper-haired sex symbol who'd stolen hearts as a scamp in St. Elsewhere and Chicago Hope play tough-as-nails agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs from the Navy's elite crime investigative unit?
Mary Hart, host of Entertainment Tonight, is obsessed with Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon’s airstream trailer has avocado green benchtops.
The West Wing, Episode "Posse Comitatus" Secret Service agents on "body" assigment are required to wear kevlar vests. The bullets struck Simon Donovan in his chest, an area that would be protected by the vest unless a large caliber gun or Teflon ammunition was used, so theory states he should be alive?
2002 Emmy: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee 1977 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie - Nominee 1993 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee 1992 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee 1988 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee 1987 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
Other Famous People Who Share His Birthday are: Actor Meinhardt Raabe (Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz") Dancer-actress Marge Champion Jazz pianist Horace Silver Singer Sam Gooden of The Impressions Singer Jimmy Clanton Sportscaster Terry Bradshaw Tennis star Jimmy Connors Actress Linda Purl Drummer Jerry Augustyniak of 10,000 Maniacs Country drummer Paul Deakin of The Mavericks Actor Keanu Reeves Actress Salma Hayek Actress Cynthia Watros ("Lost," "Titus") Singer K-Ci of K-Ci and JoJo Singer Tony Thompson (Hi-Five) Bassist Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit
His godfather Forest Evashevski is in the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame.
Mark Harmon had been acting for about three years when he first gained notice for his Emmy-nominated single scene as a one-legged veteran speaking with the First Lady (Jane Alexander) in the 1977 ABC TV-movie "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years".
A baseball fan, Harmon was once part-owner of the minor-league San Bernardino Spirit, a team which figured prominently in his 1988 film vehicle Stealing Home
Mark shares the same name as MARK HARMON, The Prosecutor, best known for the Bosnian war trials.
Other little known facts about Mark Harmon: Did you know that his sister, Kelly Harmon, was the Tic Tac lady?
In the scene where Mark Harmon cuts off a doll's head to replace Wondermut's old toy Bob, there is a close-up of the doll head being shaken with Freddy's head visible in the background. You hear Freddy saying, "Look Wondermut. I found Bob," but you can see that Freddie's lips aren't moving.
At the beginning of the movie, Ryan's hair is short. In the scene where he, Anna and Tess are talking about why Anna was riding on the back of Jake's motorcycle, his hair is several inches longer. At the wedding rehearsal his hair is short again, the same length it was at the beginning of the film.
Mark is Roman Catholic
Mark once dated actress Heather Locklear in early 1980s
In January 1996, two young men were driving a Jeep Cherokee at 85 mph through the residential streets of Brentwood, California. They crashed into a tree, and the Jeep flipped over and burst into flames near Harmon's home. His wife, actress Pam Dawber, heard the wreck and called 911, while Harmon, according to the fire department's report, "smashed the car windows with a sledgehammer and pulled the burning boy to safety". With "aw shucks" aplomb, Harmon said he was just the guy who happened to have a sledgehammer in his garage.
Mark Harmon's grandfather, William Franklin Knox, was Secretary of the Navy from 1940-44
Mark graduated from UCLA with a degree in communications. He graduated “Cum Laude”.
Mark godfather Forest Evashevski is in the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame.
Mark has two children with Pam their names are Sean Thomas and Ty Christian.
Mark father, Tom Harmon, is a famous football star.
Mark was the brother-in-law of the famous “Ricky Nelson”.
Mark played “Dr Robert ‘Bobby’ Caldwell on the TV series “St Elsewhere” from 1983 until 1986.
One of Mark notorious characters he played was serial killer “Ted Bundy” in the movie “The Deliberate Stranger” in 1986.
‘Special Agent Leroy Gibbs” is the character Mark portrayed in the TV series “JAG”.
In the TV series Mark played “Leroy Jethro Gibbs” for “Navy NCIS” in 2003.
Mark was born on September 2, 1951 in Burbank, California.
In 1986 Mark was chosen as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive
Mark and Pam Dawber have two children: Sean Thomas Harmon born 26 April 1988 (18) and Ty Christian Harmon born 25 June 1992 (14).
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