‘I owe her everything’: 28 years ago, this NCIS star saved a teenager’s life as a real-life series hero

1996. An accident occurred in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Colin Specht and a friend are driving a little too fast and crash, then the car catches fire. The driver manages to escape from the car, but Specht remains in the passenger seat. Actor Mark Hammon (Leroy Gibbs on NCIS) lives in the area and the accident happened near his home.

In 1996, Harmon was already famous, but not yet the star of NCIS. He has been working since the early 70s, appearing in several films such as Presidio: Army Base, San Francisco (1988), 3 Beds for the Bachelorette (1989) and appearing in several TV movies in which he played Dillinger (1991). ).

The intensity of the fire increased

During the event that was recently reported Recreational televisionHarmon recently appeared in Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp (1994) and directed the series Charlie Grace (1995), a cop show that rested on his shoulders and was canceled after only 6 episodes.

Harmony is back CBS News The moment he intervened to help Specht, hammer in hand: “When I broke the window to get to it, it’s oxygenated, the fire suddenly increased.” But he still managed to get Specht out of the car while his wife, actress Pam Dawber, called for help.

Specht was also interviewed and had this to say about Harmon:

“I owe everything to him, (…) I have no doubt that I was going to die, he pulled me, because I was still upright, the seat belt and pulled me out of the car. (…) He still had a lot to lose, he had a wife and children and a career based on his face and his looks, that’s true altruism.

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“I won’t admit it, because if the car had blown up next to me, we would have been talking about two young boys who don’t have a father anymore. And you would do this interview with my wife and say how stupid it was.”

After this accident, which could have ended much more tragically, Harmon left to play the doctor in Chicago Hope for 95 episodes from 1996 to 2000 before joining. NCIS: Special Investigations When it was launched in 2003. He stayed there for 19 years.

Let us remind you that in 2019 and 2020 Mark Harmon was twice accused by Paulie Perret, ab in the TV series, of insulting remarks: “There was something so racist, so misogynistic, so homophobic, so cruel that was said on the set of that show, and I never spoke about it because those words hurt. And you wonder why I left? Those producers are still there. All of them, including her.

Harmon left NCIS in 2022, but will soon return to provide voice acting for a spin-off series focusing on his character’s youth.