Monte Markham (born June 21, 1935) guest stars in two episodes of the NBC-TV series The Golden Girls as Clayton "Clay" Louis Hollingsworth, Blanche Devereaux's gay younger brother. During his career, Markham has appeared in film, in television, 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 role of 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 the title character in the short lived 1973 NBC-TV series The New Perry Mason, which was supposed to be a reboot of the long-running 1957-66 CBS series which starred Raymond Burr.
Markham played the dual role of Luke and Ken Carpenter in the 1967 and 1968 ABC sitcom, The Second Hundred Years.
Portrayed the criminally insane character called Pike in the episode "Power Play" in the 1975 revival of The Invisible Man.
Stage[]
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.
His most recent role is a role of doctor in upcoming American silent movie Silent Life.
Partial filmography[]
Films[]
- Hour of the Gun (1967)
- Project X (1968)
- Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
- The Astronaut (1972)
- One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
- Ginger in the Morning (1974)
- Midway (1976)
- Airport '77 (1977)
- Separate Ways (1981)
- Hotline (1982)
- Off the Wall (1983)
- Hot Pursuit (1987)
- Piranha (1995)
- Life Partners (2014)
Television[]
- Cold Case
- Mission: Impossible
- The Mod Squad
- The Virginian
- Ellery Queen
- Hogan's Heroes
- The High Chaparral
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Barnaby Jones
- Hawaii Five-O
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Death Takes A Holiday
- The Invisible Man
- Quincy, M.E.
- Police Woman
- The Incredible Hulk
- Hart to Hart
- The Fall Guy (Two episodes as Charles Ryker
- The A-Team
- Hotel
- Murder, She Wrote
- The Golden Girls as Blanche Devereaux's gay brother Clayton, in two episodes (1988, 1991)
- Baywatch
- Diagnosis Murder
References[]
External links[]
Monte Markham at the Internet Movie Database- Monte Markham interview http://www.wonderland-site.com/html/interviews4.htm
