The New Role Mark Harmon Will Remind Everyone Is More Than Gibbs
As Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the main character of NCIS, Mark Harmon's next film role is a required career step to challenge his legendary 18-year image. His long participation in the Ncis series began with the legal drama JAG, where he first presented the military police procedural idea and the character. Originally a two-part backdoor pilot, what developed into a popular and long-running TV show that influenced the development of four NCIS spinoff series and an upcoming prequel series.
Mark Harmon Executive Producing and Narrating NCIS: Origins
NCIS: Origins will premiere on CBS's Fall 2024-2025 TV season and Mark Harmon is executive producing and narrating it. Harmon was Ncis's face until roughly season 19, as Gibbs, the moral supervisory special agent in charge of a DC-based NCIS team. Harmon chose to leave NCIS following 18 seasons and a limited appearance in the 19th. Still, this had little effect to sever the actor's inextricable link with the franchise. Harmon's much-loved performance and longevity in the original series made it difficult to see him as anything else than Supervisory Special Agent Gibbs. Harmon, however, has a long and layered acting career that his new film role will remind everyone of.
After Mark Harmon's NCIS Run, Ryan In Freaky Friday 2 Is A Change Of Pace
Harmon hasn't been on-screen since leaving NCIS, but he will shortly be back—albeit on the big screen—for the upcoming Freaky Friday sequel. Twenty plus years after Walt Disney Pictures' 2003 Freaky Friday adaptation, the cult classic body-swap film is at last getting a new film. Fans will be delighted to see original stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan back as Tess and Anna Coleman, mother/daughter team. Harmon in a role that differs greatly from Special Agent Gibbs is among other original Freaky Friday cast members scheduled to make returns.
Freaky Friday 2 Will Remind Everyone Harmon's Career Was Always More Than NCIS
More than just souring Harmon's connection to the NCIS franchise, the actor's Freaky Friday performance will serve as a reminder of the range of film and TV characters he performed prior to Gibbs. Harmon has acting credits going back to 1973 when he starred in a single episode of the sitcom Ozzie's Girls as Mark Johnson. From brief parts in series including Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, and The West Wing to longer-term roles in St. Elsewhere as Dr. Robert Caldwell, Reasonable Doubt as Detective Dicky Cobbs, and Chicago Hope as Dr. Jack McNeil, he developed a broad television career.
Harmon had also starred in or directed the cast of Chasing Liberty, Summer School, Local Boys, and The Last Supper among other movies. His career spans several genres as well, demonstrating his equally deftness in comedies or romance as in the military procedural style. Though Mark Harmon's participation to NCIS will always be legendary, it's crucial to keep in mind that his acting career is far more than just Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
