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.

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.

Filmography

Film

• 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) - Cmdr. Max Leslie
• Airport '77 (1977)
• Hotline (1982)
• Jake Speed (1986)
• Hot Pursuit (1987)
• Defense Play (1988)
• Neon City (1991)
• Piranha (1995)
• Life Partners (2014)
• We Are Still Here (2015)

Television

Death Takes a Holiday (1971)

• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Fringe
• Leverage
• Thriller
• Cold Case
• Mission: Impossible
• Here Come the Brides
• The Mod Squad
• The Virginian
• Ellery Queen
• Hogan's Heroes
• The High Chaparral
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Alias Smith and Jones
• The Second Hundred Years (TV series) (26 episodes as Lucius "Luke" Carpenter)
• The New Perry Mason (1973-74 update of the classic TV Series) (15 episodes as Perry Mason)
• Barnaby Jones
• Hawaii Five-O
• Death Takes a Holiday
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• The Invisible Man
• Quincy, M.E.
• Police Woman
• Trapper John, M.D.
• The Incredible Hulk as Brad
• Hart to Hart
• The Fall Guy (Two episodes as Charles Ryker)
• Dallas
• Matt Houston
• Simon & Simon
• The Love Boat
• Love, American Style
• Fantasy Island
• The A-Team as Lt. Mason Harnett
• Finder of Lost Loves
• Hotel
• Murder, She Wrote
• The Golden Girls as Blanche Devereaux's gay brother Clayton, in two episodes (1989-1990)
• Baywatch
• Jack Holborn
• Melrose Place
• Grace Under Fire
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• The Littlest Hobo (series premiere episode "Smoke")

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