Mark Harmon Net Worth

Mark Harmon's Quotes

• I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years I realise I must enjoy walking that edge, I keep doing it. It's why I like what I do. The only other job I've ever had that provides that time in the morning where you're going to work and you can't wait to get there and the sun's rising and you're moving toward something you look forward to getting up and doing every day was being a carpenter. And it was because you're doing something different every day.
• I have never done any job for the security or the money. I believe in trying to find an area to get better, to learn more about why I am here.
• It's funny, the fame and money part isn't even in the top 10, to be honest. It's important to have a job you like going to, for me. And it's important to know I have a hand in making sure that the 400 people who work on this show know they have a job to come back to. That's something I don't take lightly.
• I have to be challenged. The busier I am, the better I like it.
• If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

Interesting Facts about Mark Harmon

1. Harmon and his wife, Pam Dawber, have two sons: Sean Harmon (born on 25 April 1988) and Ty Harmon (born on 25 June 1992).
2. Chosen as People Magazine's second annual "Sexiest Man Alive," between inaugural winner Mel Gibson, who won for 1985, and third year winner Harry Hamlin, who won for 1987. [1986]
3. His godfather, Forest Evashevski, is in the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame for coaching.
4. Risked his life to save two teenage boys who were involved in a car accident outside of his home. Harmon used a sledgehammer from his garage to break the window out of their car, then pulled them free so they wouldn't be burned to death, while his wife, Pam Dawber, called 911. He made every effort to downplay his role in saving their lives. [1996].
5. He graduated cum laude from UCLA, 1974, with a degree in communications. Also played quarterback for UCLA Bruins, 1972-1973, winning National Football Foundation Award for all-around excellence.
6. Worked as a carpenter before he hit it big, foretelling the carpentry and wooden boat-building interest and skills of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the character he plays on NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003).
7. No relation to Angie Harmon, although both have starred in a series also starring Sasha Alexander..
8. Not the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of the Navy William Franklin "Frank" Knox. Mark's mother, former actress Elyse Knox, was born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath to Frederick and Elizabeth Kornbrath in Hartford, Connecticut; she was not the daughter of Navy Secretary Knox, despite several incorrect sources that have said she was.
9. His legendary father, Tom Harmon, played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines (1938-1940), winning the 1940 Heisman Trophy, emblematic of the best player in the nation, for his efforts.
10. Mark was quarterback of the 1972 and 1973 UCLA Bruins football teams, and was a teammate of center Randy Gaschler; linebacker and defensive end Fulton Kuykendall; fellow quarterback (and future Philadelphia Eagles pro defensive back) John Sciarra; defensive end (and future Minnesota Vikings pro linebacker) Fred McNeill; cornerback (and future Pittsburgh Steeler and Detroit Lions pro cornerback and safety) Jimmy Allen; and center (and future Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots pro center) Art Kuehn; among others.
11. Studied pre-med in college before transferring to communications. He later played doctors on St. Elsewhere (1982) and Chicago Hope (1994).
12. Early in his career, he was known for being the face of Coors beer, for doing more than 20 Coors beer commercials in the early 1980s.
13. His oldest son, Sean Harmon, portrayed a young Gibbs on NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003).
14. Was also a lifeguard before hitting it big. His work as a lifeguard was a summer job at Laguna Beach, California, where his parents and the Nelsons both had beach houses. His father used to wake him up early so he could run for an hour on the beach before he had to report for work. He has credited this practice as conditioning him for fall football practice. Another job he had early in his acting career was working with Mike Walden as the color man on tape-delayed UCLA telecasts on KTLA. On one of those telecasts. Harmon discussed his then-upcoming series, Sam (1978).
15. Was a national shoe representative for Adidas in the 1970s.
16. His first paid acting gig was playing a gorilla on Ozzie's Girls (1973). The show's titular star and producer, Ozzie Nelson, was his relative by marriage.
17. Mark has broken his shoulder twice. Once during the filming of the movie Summer School (1987), and another incident while filming a Coors beer commercial.
18. Mark studied American Sign Language for his various television roles with The Sign Company.
19. Mark has an abducted left knee from his football career.
20. Mark has been known to wear shirts that were sent to him by his fans.