Lee Majors is a performer.
Lee Majors . The television character Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s . Steve Austin is a science fiction character created by Martin Caidin for his 1972 novel , Cyborg . The lead character , Colonel Steve Austin , became an iconic 1970s television science fiction action hero , portrayed by American actor Lee Majors , in American television series The Six Million Dollar Man , which aired on the ABC network as a regular series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978 . Following the The Six Million Dollar Man television series , Lee Majors reprised the role of Colonel Steve Austin in several bionic reunion television movies in the late 1980s and 1990s .