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ootball was a star in Mark Harmon’s life from the very
beginning. One of his earliest memories is watching a fi lm
highlight reel of his dad, Heisman winner Tom Harmon,
scoring 33 touchdowns playing college football for the Uni-
versity of Michigan. “I was literally, like, 8 before I realized
my dad ever got tackled, because on the reel, he scores every
time he gets the ball!” Harmon says with a laugh.
And when his father became a football broadcaster, “to
watch from the press box, that had a certain magic,” says
Harmon, 67. Th at magic carried Harmon himself onto the fi eld
years later when he played quarterback for the Bruins at UCLA,
leading the team to a 17-5 record over two seasons from 1972 to- “Coming out of that tunnel, being in that locker room, in
many ways, it was a dream come true,” he says.
He later found his way onto another, even bigger
fi eld, and another dream, as his fans know. As an
actor, his path eventually led him to his current
longtime role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the wildly
successful CBS show NCIS, now headed into
its record 17th season, securing its
status as one of the longest-running
scripted prime-time shows in
television history.
Today Harmon lives near the
show’s Los Angeles set in Cali-
fornia’s Santa Monica Mountains
with his wife of 32 years, actress Pam
Dawber, 67 (Mork & Mindy and
My Sister Sam), and near their two
sons, Sean, 31, and Ty, 27. And even
with his success as one of TV’s most
successful and recognizable stars, he’s
doing what he can to foster a family
life like the one in which he grew up.
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Mark Harmon has scored on the football
fi eld and in life, playing QB at UCLA, hanging
out with Ozzie and Harriet, starring in a record
17 seasons of NCIS and raising a family in Hollywood.
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father, who was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame in
1954 when Harmon was 3, and
his mother, Elyse, who’d been an
actress and a model before retiring
to stay home with Harmon and his
two older sisters, Kristin and Kelly.
As the baby of the family, Harmon
says, “I think I was more shy;
more quiet, maybe.” And while his
sisters were into ballet and horses,
Harmon was “outside, preferably
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