Monte Markham

Monte Markham
Monte Markham
	Markham (left) with Ed Begley in 1969.
Born	June 21, 1935 (age 89); Manatee County, Florida, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor; Television director; Television producer
Years active	1966–present

Monte Markham (born June 21, 1935) is an American actor. He has appeared in films, television series and on Broadway.

Early life

Markham was born in Manatee County, Florida, the son of Millie Content (née Willbur) and Jesse Edward Markham, Sr., who was a merchant.^[1]

Television

Of his television roles, Markham is perhaps most famous for playing the dual role of Luke and Ken Carpenter in the 1967–68 ABC sitcom, The Second Hundred Years.

Markham is also widely remembered for his role as Perry Mason in the 1973-74 CBS update of the classic lawyer/detective series entitled The New Perry Mason.

Another of Markham's best known roles was as the racing-car-driver-turned-cyborg Barney Miller in the second-season episode of The Six Million Dollar Man entitled "The Seven Million Dollar Man," which first aired November 1, 1974. (Markham reprised the role—albeit with a character name change to Barney Hiller—in the third-season episode "The Bionic Criminal," which first aired just over a year later, on November 9, 1975.)

He also played Rue McClanahan's gay brother Clayton on the NBC sitcom, The Golden Girls and portrayed the criminally insane character called Pike in the episode "Power Play" in the 1975 revival of The Invisible Man.

Stage

One of his earliest stage experiences was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1961, where he played Horatio in Hamlet. Markham made his Broadway debut in 1973 in Irene, for which he won the Theatre World Award. He also appeared on stage in Same Time, Next Year.

Film

Markham's film work includes Hour of the Gun, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Midway and Airport 77. He has served as a consultant, director, producer, and narrator for A&E's Classroom and The Great Ships series. ^{[citation needed]}