LEE MAJORS

The TV series The Big Valley and The Six Million Dollar Man were starred by famous actor Lee Majors. Majors graduated with a degree in history and physical education and spent his college years as a football athlete. However, he suffered injury and changed his path to acting. His first major role was as Heath Barkley in the hit 1960s western series, The Big Valley. He became highly-acclaimed and was also hailed as the “blond Elvis Presley” because of the resemblance.

You may not know that he used to be a star athlete at Middlesbrough High School. The school named the football field Lee Majors Field and included him in the Sports Hall of Fame. He entered Indiana University with a football scholarship, but was expelled for participating in a fraternity fight two years later. After transferring to Eastern Kentucky University, a game injury paralyzed his waist for two weeks. That’s why he was forced to leave his path of a great football career.