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Lee Yeary Majors (birthday April 23, 1939) is an actor, primarily known for his roles in movies, sitcoms and television who also starred in four long-running ABC TV series over four decades.

Majors is best known for his roles as Barbara Stanwyck's husband's illegitimate son, Heath Barkley, on The Big Valley, as Arthur Hill's law partner/friend, Jess Brandon, on Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, as Colonel Steve Austin, on The Six Million Dollar Man, and as Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy. He also had a recurring role as Col. Seymour Kooze in Son of the Beach.

Majors was born Harvey Lee Yeary in the Detroit suburb of Wyandotte, Michigan. He is the son of Carl Yeary, who was killed in a work accident before Lee was born, and Alice Yeary, who was killed in a hit and run accident in 1941 when he was two years old. He was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, and moved with them to Middlesboro, Kentucky. Yeary graduated in 1957 and earned a scholarship to Indiana University where he competed in football. Yeary left Indiana University in 1959 and transferred to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. While a student at EKU, he met actor Rock Hudson, and they became very good friends

After graduation, Yeary signed an offer sheet from the St. Louis Cardinals football team for a tryout; however, he later turned it down due to his need to immediately support his wife and son. The next year, 1964, he chose to move his family to Los Angeles, California, where he got a job at the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Department as the Recreation Director for North Hollywood Park.

Yeary adopted the stage name Lee Majors from his own middle name and from the surname of his cousin Johnny Majors (runner-up for the 1956 Heisman Trophy.)

At 25, Majors' first role was in Strait-Jacket, starring leading actress.

Majors got his big break when he beat out over 400 actors, including Burt Reynolds, for the co-starring role of Heath Barkley in the new western series, The Big Valley, for ABC, which starred legendary screen actress Barbara Stanwyck. Also starring on the show was another newcomer, Linda Evans, who played Heath's younger sister, Audra. Richard Long and Peter Breck played Heath's two older half-brothers Jarrod and Nick. According to A&E Biography's narrator, Bill Mumy, Majors had an ongoing feud with Stanwyck, and he even threw a temper tantrum off the set.

Majors went on to do some more films such as Will Penny (1968) with Charlton Heston. He starred in The Liberation of L.B. Jones in 1970.

In 1970, Majors joined the cast of The Virginian for the last season, and also signed a long-term contract with Universal, where his next role was that of Arthur Hill's partner, Jess Brandon, on Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, which garnered critical acclaim for three seasons on ABC.

Majors' co-starring role on the hit legal series Owen Marshall led him to the role of a lifetime when, in 1973, he starred as Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut and test pilot with bionic limbs in the telemovie, The Six Million Dollar Man on ABC. The network decided to turn it into a weekly series early in 1974. This program made Majors a pop icon of the 1970s, and was seen in over 70 countries. Co-starring on the show was veteran character actor Richard Anderson, who played the role of Austin's boss, Oscar Goldman, and Alan Oppenheimer (later Martin E. Brooks), as his doctor, Rudy Wells. Majors also invited his then wife, Farrah Fawcett, to guest-star in four episodes, and both were on the cover of magazines everywhere

During the show's third season, the producers gave Majors a chance to have his character experience some love in his life, namely Jaime Sommers, played by actress Lindsay Wagner.

After his role as Steve Austin, Majors tried to start a feature-film career. He starred in several movies back-to-back: The Norseman (1978), Steel (1979), Killer Fish (1979), Agency (1980) and The Last Chase (1981), none of which performed well at the box office. After resuming his television career, Majors has continued to make the occasional film appearance, often in supporting roles and occasionally parodying his Steve Austin image (such as in a cameo in Bill Murray's Scrooged in 1988). Recent films have included Out Cold (2001), Big Fat Liar (2002) and Lightspeed (2006).

He will star in Spring Break '83, an upcoming film, out sometime in 2008.

As he was about to abandon the film industry, Majors decided to go back to television for the fourth time, and starred in The Fall Guy, as Hollywood stuntman and part-time bounty hunter, Colt Seavers. His co-stars were Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas and Markie Post, who joined the cast in 1982.  Majors sang the show's theme song, "The Unknown Stuntman".

After The Fall Guy he left ABC after 22 years of fruitful association. In 1986, he co-starred with Dolly Parton in the CBS telefilm, A Smoky Mountain Christmas. Also in 1989, he moved to CBS, and the following year had a recurring role in Tour of Duty, and a regular role in 1992’s short-lived series, Raven. Lee Majors also was to co-star with stuntman Spanky Spangler in a US pilot series called "Hollywood Stunts" that featured greats like Robbie Knievel, Spanky Spangler, Matthew J. Phillips, George Nelson and Ron nix. He co-starred on Too Much Sun, but it was canceled after only six episodes.

In the middle of 2003, Majors’ acting career was put on hold when he had double surgeries. He had a knee replacement, followed by a single heart bypass surgery, both of which were successful.

Majors has been married four times, but his most famous marriage was to actress Farrah Fawcett, another 1970s pop icon. In 1976 Majors and Fawcett made TV history by being a husband and wife who simultaneously starred in separate top-rated shows (The Six Million Dollar Man (Majors) and Charlie's Angels (Fawcett)). They were married on July 28, 1973, and separated in 1979, but were not formally divorced until February 16, 1982.

Majors has four children from two of his marriages. He has one son, actor Lee Majors II (born circa 1962), from his 1961-1964 marriage to Kathy Robinson, who would go on to appear as an OSI agent in the three The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman reunion movies with his father. His 1988-1994 marriage to former Playboy Playmate, Karen Velez produced one daughter, Nikki Majors, and twin sons, Dane Majors and Trey Majors. He is currently married to actress Faith Noelle Cross, whom he wed on November 1, 2002.

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