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Mark Harmon

Actor, Producer, DirectorBorn September 2, 1951 (73 years)
Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor, producer and director. He is known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS (2003-2021), a role which has earned him six nominations at the People's Choice Awards including a win for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor in 2017. Since 2008, he has also been a producer and executive producer of the show as well as its' spinoff series NCIS: New Orleans. His character of NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was introduced in a guest starring role in two episodes of JAG, and continued on the spinoff show NCIS.

He had a recurring role as Secret Service special agent Simon Donovan in a four-episode story arc in The West Wing in 2002, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.

One of his first national TV appearances (other than as an athlete) was in a commercial for Kellogg's Product 19 cereal with his father, Tom Harmon, its longstanding TV spokesman. Thanks to his sister Kristin's in-laws, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, he landed his first job as an actor in an episode of Ozzie's Girls.

He has been starring in television and film since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins.

He's been married to actress Pam Dawber since 1987 and they have 2 sons. His son, actor Sean Harmon, had a recurring role as a young Leeroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
  • Stealing Home
  • Weather Girl
  • I'll Remember April
  • Prince of Bel Air
  • Casualties
  • Tuareg: The Desert Warrior
  • Intimate Agony

Known For

  • NCIS
  • Freaky Friday
  • Summer School
  • The Presidio
  • Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
  • Wyatt Earp
  • NCIS: New Orleans
  • Stealing Home
  • Chasing Liberty
  • The Deliberate Stranger
  • Magic in the Water
  • Worth Winning
  • Certain Prey
  • After the Promise

Filmography

2025
Freakier Friday · as Ryan
2024
NCIS: Origins (TV Series) · as Older Leroy Jethro Gibbs (voice) (uncredited)
2019
2018
All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice)
2014
NCIS: New Orleans (TV Series) · as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
2011
Certain Prey · as Lucas Davenport
2010
I Am · as Cast
2010
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths · as Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
2009
2004
Retrosexual: The '80s (TV Series) · as Cast
2004
Chasing Liberty · as James Foster
2003
NCIS (TV Series) · as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
2003
Freaky Friday · as Ryan
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series)
2002
Local Boys · as Jim Wesley
2001
The Legend of Tarzan (TV Series) · as Bob Markham (voice)
2001
And Never Let Her Go · as Thomas Capano
2001
And Never Let Her Go (TV Series) · as Thomas Capano
2001
Crossfire Trail · as Bruce Barkow
2000
For All Time · as Charles Lattimer
2000
The Amati Girls · as Lawrence
1999
The West Wing (TV Series) · as Simon Donovan
1999
1999
Family Guy (TV Series) · as Leroy Jethro Gibbs (voice)
1999
Gaia Symphony II · as Voice Over
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas · as Magazine Reporter
1998
From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) · as Wally Schirra
1997
Casualties · as Tommy Nance
1997
The First to Go · as Jeremy Hampton
1996
Adventures from the Book of Virtues (TV Series) · as Ulysses
1996
Strangers (TV Series) · as Mark
1995
JAG (TV Series) · as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
1995
Charlie Grace (TV Series) · as Charlie Grace
1995
The Last Supper · as Dominant Male
1995
Magic in the Water · as Jack Black
1995
Original Sins · as Johnathan Franye
1994
Chicago Hope (TV Series) · as Jack Mcneil
1994
Natural Born Killers · as Mickey Knox In Tv
1994
Wyatt Earp · as Sheriff Johnny Behan
1993
Harts of the West (TV Series)
1992
1991
Cold Heaven · as Alex Davenport
1991
Reasonable Doubts (TV Series) · as Det. Dicky Cobb
1991
Till There Was You · as Frank Flynn
1991
Shadow of a Doubt · as Charles Spencer
1991
Long Road Home · as Ertie Robertson
1991
Fourth Story · as David Shepard
1991
Dillinger · as John Dillinger
1989
Worth Winning · as Taylor Worth
1989
Sweet Bird of Youth · as Chance Wayne
1988
Stealing Home · as Billy Wyatt
1988
The Presidio · as Jay Austin
1987
After the Promise · as Elmer Jackson
1987
1987
Summer School · as Mr. Freddy Shoop
1986
Let's Get Harry · as Harry
1986
The Deliberate Stranger · as Ted Bundy
1986
The Deliberate Stranger (TV Series) · as Ted Bundy
1986
Prince of Bel Air · as Robin Prince
1985
Moonlighting (TV Series) · as Sam Crawford
1984
1983
1982
St. Elsewhere (TV Series) · as Robert Caldwell
1981
Goliath Awaits (TV Series) · as Peter Cabot
1980
The Dream Merchants (TV Series) · as Johnny Edge
1980
Flamingo Road (TV Series)
1979
240-Robert (TV Series) · as Thib Thibideaux
1979
1978
Comes a Horseman · as Billy Joe Meynert
1978
Centennial (TV Series) · as Captain John Mcintosh
1978
Little Mo · as Norman Brinker
1978
Getting Married · as Howie Lesser
1977
The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Doug Bradbury
1977
1977
1976
All's Fair (TV Series)
1976
Delvecchio (TV Series) · as Ronnie Striker
1976
Laverne & Shirley (TV Series)
1975
Sonic Boom · as Student Controller
1974
Police Woman (TV Series) · as Stanski
1973
Ozzie's Girls (TV Series)
1973
Police Story (TV Series) · as Officer Hazelton
1972
Emergency! (TV Series) · as Ofcr. Dave Gordon
1968
Adam-12 (TV Series) · as Officer Gus Corbin
1951
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Charles

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