Received his MFA from the University of Georgia in 1960 and was an
instructor at Stephens College, Missouri, from 1960-1962 before he
pursued a full-time acting career.
His brother Jess was a pilot for Air America, the CIA airline in
southeast Asia.
Co-founder, with wife Klaire Markham and son Jason Markham, of production company "Perpetual Motion Films" in 1992.
The producers original first choice to play Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man, before Lee Majors. He then starred as 'The Seven Million Dollar Man' in S2 E5 of $6m man, as Barney Miller.