Lee Majors, to give him a birth name Harvey Lee Yeary, is a well-known name in entertainment business. It has been claimed that the overall size of Lee Majors net worth is as high as 15 million dollars. Lee Majors is probably mostly known from the television series as ‘The Big Valley’, ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ or ‘The Fall Guy’. These series are also regarded as the main sources of Lee net worth. In addition to this, Majors has added to his net worth as voice actor.
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Lee Majors Net Worth $15 Million
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Harvey Lee Yeary was born on April 23, 1939 in Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S. As his parents died in car accidents, Harvey was raised by his uncle in Middlesboro, Kentucky. He played football in the high school and later in college but suffered an injury after which he could not continue playing. Harvey then attended an acting school for a year, chose a stage name Lee Majors and began the career as an actor.
Lee Majors began his actor’s career as well as the accumulation of his net worth with the small role in a film titled “Strait-Jacket” produced and directed by William Castle. Other early roles of Majors includes appearances on the episodes of television series ‘The Alfred Hitchcock Hour’, ‘Gunsmoke’ and appearing in the main cast of television series created by A.I. Bezzerides, Louis F. Edelman ‘The Big Valley’. Lee has been starring in ‘The Big Valley’ series from 1965 to 1969. During his early acting years Majors was nicknamed blond Elvis Presley as he look very similar to the pop star. From 1971 to 1974 Majors has been acting in a legal drama series ‘Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law’ and increased his net worth as one of the main cast members. Since 1973 Lee has added a decent amount of money into his net worth account as the fictional character Steve Austin reached outstanding popularity. Five seasons of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ were created and a television film where Majors landed the leading role. In the 1980’s Lee Major was starring in the action adventure series ‘The Fall Guy’ created by Glen A. Larson. Due to a great demand the series lasted for five seasons and were created more than a hundred episodes. In addition to this, two DVD sets were released which has also increased Lee Major’s net worth. Since 1990, Lee appeared lots of feature films as “Out Cold” directed by The Malloys , “Big Fat Liar” directed by Shawn Levy, “The Brothers Solomon” directed by Bob Odenkirk and television series as ‘Weed’, ‘Robot Chicken’, ‘Community’ and others.
Lee Majors has been married four times. His first marriage with Kathy Robinson lasted three years, from 1961 to 1964. Together they had one child. His second marriage with Farrah Fawcett lasted six years from 1973 to 1979. Lee’s third marriage with Karen Velez lasted for six years from 1988 to 1994. During that time they had three children. In 2002, Lee Majors married his present wife Faith Cross.
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