Feature > Press Release > LEE MAJORS RECEIVES WAALM - LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS BY CHRIS W. BURST
The Star of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ received Persian Golden Lioness Awards.
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Lee Majors, a football star at Eastern Kentucky State College, Lee Majors came to Los Angeles armed with a physical education degree and possessed with a vague desire to break into films. He worked as a park recreation director for the City of Los Angeles before entering show business in 1963. Majors achieved stardom on his own merits in a variety of television series, the most recent of which was 1992's Raven. His best-known TV roles included Heath Barkley on The Big Valley (1965-69), bionic Steve Austin on The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-78) and stunt man Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy (1981-86). In addition, he has headlined a number of made-for-TV movies, essaying the old Gary Cooper part in the 1991 sequel to High Noon and portraying U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in a 1976 biopic.
Lee received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media – WAALM the awarding body of Persian Golden Lioness Awards along with Reza Badiyi the legendary director of many Hollywood TV series in the 3rd WAALM event in London – England.
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