MONTE MARKHAM BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Monte Markham was born on June 21st, 1935 in Manatee, Florida to parents Millie Content and Jesse Edward Markham Sr.  After high school he graduated from the University of Georgia in 1960 with his MFA and became an instructor at Stephens College in Missouri between 1960 and 1962. He then decided he wanted more from his career and decided to pursue a career as an actor.
 
Markham began with working as a stage actor making his Broadway debut in, "Irene" in 1973 and won the Theatre World Award.  He also had some television exposure prior to his Broadway work when in 1967 he was cast in the starring role in a weekly television version of, "Mr. Deeds goes To Town". 
 
He is most remembered for portraying the character, Barney Hiller in two separate episodes of, "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974-1975).  He also had a recurring role on the television series called, "The Golden Girls" and has also appeared on, "Hawaii Five-O" (1970-1980), "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" (both 1980-1983).
 
Some of his more well known film roles were on, "Hour of the Gun" (1967), "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" (1969), "Midway" (1976) and "Airport 77" (1977).  His latest work has been on, "Silent Life" (2010), "Music High" (2011) and soon he will be seen on, "Fearless" (2012) and "Space Samurai: Oasis" (2013).
 
Monte has married only once to his current wife, Klaire Keevil Hester whom he wed in 1961 and they have two children together.  Along with a successful career as an actor he has also worked on the other side of the industry as a director for two feature films, "Defense Play" (1988) and "Neon City" (1992).

Filmography

2013 Space Samurai: Oasis
2012 Fearless 
2011 Music High 
2010 Silent Life 
2011 Beach Bar: The Movie 
2010 Fallout: New Vegas
2009 Cold Case 
2001 Launch
2001 Fly Past 
1999 Millennium Man
1999 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show 
1998 Diagnosis Murder 
1996 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 
1995-1996 Campus Cops 
1996 Frame by Frame 
1995 Piranha 
1995 Burke's Law 
1994-1995 Grace Under Fire 
1995 Two Guys Talkin' About Girls
1994-1995 Biography
1994 Melrose Place
1994 Combat at Sea
1993 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
1986-1993 Murder, She Wrote 
1993 Air Combat 
1989-1992 Baywatch 
1991 Neon City 
1988-1991 The Golden Girls
1988-1989 1st & Ten: The Championship
1989 Nikki and Alexander
1988 Judgement Day 
1988 Defense Play 
1987 Hot Pursuit 
1983-1987 Hotel 
1986 Jake Speed
1986 Blacke's Magic
1985 Counter Measures
1984-1985 Rituals 
1984 Finder of Lost Loves
1984 The Master
1984 The A-Team
1983 Breakaway
1980-1983 Fantasy Island 
1983 Off the Wall 
1980-1983 The Love Boat
1983 Simon & Simon
1983 Skycrane
1982 Jack Holborn 
1982 Matt Houston
1982 Hotline
1982 Drop-Out Father
1982 Bret Maverick
1982 Today's F.B.I.
1982 The Fall Guy 
1981 Hart to Hart
1981 Separate Ways
1981 Dallas
1980 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color 
1980 The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
1980 The Incredible Hulk
1980 Eight Is Enough 
1970-1980 Hawaii Five-O
1980 Beyond Westworld
1979 A Man Called Sloane
1979 Trapper John, M.D.
1979 The Littlest Hobo
1978 What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1978 Lucan
1978 Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
1974-1977 Police Woman
1977 Relentless 
1977 Airport '77 
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
1976 The Quest 
1976 Quincy M.E. 
1976 Midway
1976 The Invisible Man 
1975 Medical tory
1974-1975 The Six Million Dollar Man
1975 Ellery Queen
1975 Caribe 
1975 Cannon
1975 Barnaby Jones
1975 Hustling
1974 The Manhunter
1972-1974 Medical Center
1974 Ginger in the Morning 
1973-1974 The New Perry Mason
1972 Visions
1972 Two Is a Happy Number
1972 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1972 The Astronaut 
1968-1971 The F.B.I. 
1971 Sarge 
1971 Funny Face 
1970-1971 Love, American Style
1971 Death Takes a Holiday 
1971 Alias Smith and Jones 
1971 The Name of the Game 
1971 Dan August 
1971 Mary Tyler Moore
1970 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers 
1970 The Young Rebels 
1970 Hogan's Heroes 
1970 The High Chaparral
1970 The Virginian
1970 Bracken's World 
1969-1970 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven 
1969 My Friend Tony 
1969 Mod Squad
1969 Here Come the Brides
1968 Project X
1967-1968 The Second Hundred Years 
1967 Hour of the Gun
1967 Iron Horse