The Touching Reason Mark Harmon Never Became A Movie Star
Mark Harmon was hitting all the milestone his career in the late 1970s and 1980s. In addition to his 1977 Emmy Award nomination and prominent 1980s roles alongside Kirstie Alley in "Summer School" and Sean Connery and Meg Ryan in "The Presidio," Harmon was also voted People's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1986. There seemed to be nowhere to go but up. This perspective changed in 1987, when Harmon married Pam Dawber. He and the "Mork & Mindy" star welcomed their first son, Sean, the following year, an event that took Harmon's focus off his career and toward his family. It didn't happen over night, though.
During Sean's first year, Harmon was shooting "Till There Was You" on the other side of the world in the South Pacific. "I was in the jungles of New Guinea making a not-very-good movie when my firstborn took his first steps," he told Closer Weekly in 2018. "No job is worth missing life's most important moments." Harmon was away from home for three months, he told CBS News in 2013, an eternity in infant time. "He got out of the car by himself and walked up the sidewalk and grabbed onto my leg at the airport," he detailed.
At that point, Harmon prioritized TV, which is generally shot in a fixed studio. Throughout the 1990s, Harmon starred in a series of TV productions, including NBC's police drama "Reasonable Doubts," ABC's "Charlie Grace" and the medical drama "Chicago Hope."
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