Jon C. Hopwood, Other Works She had an exhibition of her work in 1981.After graduating from New York City's Traphagen School of Fashion, she got a job in a New York design studio as an artist's assistant intent on becoming a fashion designer.

He is also famous for his role in The West Wing as Simon Donovan and he won the Emmy award in the four-episode story arc. Elsewhere. The couple had three children:
2,000 people have to approve before you get anything. In August 1944, Harmon married actress and model Elyse Knox in a ceremony at the St. Mary's student chapel at the University of Michigan. I dated. His father, Tom Harmon, worked as a sports broadcaster. The singer-songwriters Gunnar Nelson and Matthew Nelson are her grandchildren.Elyse Knox died on February 16, 2012 in Los Angeles. Contrary to some belief, she is NOT the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of Navy (and 1936 Vice-Presidential candidate) Frank Knox. Harmon saved his silk parachute from the crash of his P-38, and it was used as the material for his wife's wedding dress. That and an appearance as a fashion model in a newsreel landed her a Hollywood contract from 20th Century-Fox.She made her debut in an uncredited bit part in Wake Up and Live (1937), starring gossip columnist Walter Winchell, in 1937. One of her daughters, Kristin Harmon, was an actress who married Ricky Nelson. Tom Harmon and Elyse Knox Harmon with guests, 1951 (L-R: Mr. and Mars. His guest-starring role in two episodes of JAG was also highly praised He is also known for the role in Chicago Hope and NCIS. Jim Brown (actor), Mr. and Mrs. Bob Harmon (professional tennis player), Tom Harmon, Elyse Harmon, Kris Harmon, Mrs. William Powell ( wife of actor William Powell), Phillip Reed (actor), Dorothy Ford (actress) Date: 1951 Elyse Knox, the actress best known for starring in The Mummy's Tomb (1942) and for being Heisman Award-winner Tom Harmon s wife and actor Mark Harmon's mother, was born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath on December 14, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Austrian parents Hermine Sophie (Muck) and Frederick Kornbrath, from Vienna. This meant that he often traveled, leaving his wife Elyse Knox, a former actress, to look after the couple's three children.

"I'm just a mother at heart," she said, "so I decided it was time to retire from the screen. When Harmon returned from the war, she married him in 1944.She was a contract player at Universal in the 1940s, where she made the "Mummy" movie with Lon Chaney Jr. who - having had to carry her in a kidnapping scene - thanked her for being petite. I liked my era, where you were groomed. Winner, 1940 Heisman Trophy. I would hate to be around today. She was 94 years old. A "B" actress for most of her career, she retired in the late 1940s to raise a family, but came back sporadically to do commercial work. When a model didn't show up as scheduled, she filled in and soon became a top fashion model herself, appearing in all the major magazines. [on how her career began] I went to art school, then did modeling.

Knox would not appear again on-screen for another three years, until Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) in 1940. I was a bride in a Vivian Donner fashion newsreel and it caught the attention of quite a few people.

Yet although he’s now an extremely successful television actor, Harmon started out his working life as a carpenter. Now, you have to read for a part, over and over. - IMDb Mini Biography By: [on the Joe Palooka movies] I enjoyed making them. |  Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile, Associated Press Athlete of the Year (male), Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile. Mark Harmon is an American television and film actor known for his role as a doctor on St. Mark Harmon has two sisters, painter actress, and author Kristin Nelson, and actress and model Kelly Harmon. She modeled some of her own creations in "Vogue Magazine" in 1937.
Tom Harmon, an all-America tailback at the University of Michigan who won the Heisman Trophy a half century ago, died of a heart attack late Thursday in … Elyse Knox, the actress best known for starring in The Mummy's Tomb (1942) and for being Heisman Award-winner Tom Harmon s wife and actor Mark Harmon's mother, was born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath on December 14, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Austrian parents Hermine Sophie (Muck) and Frederick Kornbrath, from Vienna. Besides being married to a football star. |  Was a lifelong staunch supporter of the Republican party. The real-life love of a genuine sports hero, she also played Anne Howe, girl friend of fictional boxer "Joe Palooka," in a series of B-movies at Monogram.After having two children with Harmon, she retired in 1949. Knox's first love wasn't acting but art: she began painting in oils during high school, and painting remained a passion throughout her life. While at Paramount, she met Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon, to whom she became engaged. Himself, Do you know something we don't? In all, she made 39 movies in the 1940s.Knox bounced around between studios, including Paramount and Universal.

They always handed you a script and told you, "This is your role". When she married football star and World War II serviceman. In my time, you learned your craft with small roles. "Her son Mark, born in 1951, played for UCLA as a quarterback and became a top TV star.

Birthplace: Rensselaer, IN Location of death: Los Angeles, CA Cause of death: Heart Attack Remains: Crema. AKA Thomas Dudley Harmon.

This led to a stock contract at Fox. Official Sites. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Kaczmarek to Kwiatkowski 450 Global Actresses list 16.

Her father was Frederick Kornbarth. Both of his sisters were mar… Harmon is of course best known for his long-standing role as the star of NCIS. The engagement was broken off when he went off to WWII and she married another man, but that marriage proved short-lived.

Born in Burbank, California, on September 2, 1951, he is the son of actress Elyse Knox and football legend Tom Harmon. His father Tom Harmon was a broadcaster, military pilot and an American football player but he died in 1990, and his mother Elyse Knox was an actress, model, and fashion designer, but she died in 2012. Publicity Listings

Tom Harmon. Thomas Mark Harmon was born on September 2, 1951, in Burbank city in California, United States.