Making The Cut
Could you imagine anyone other than Mark Harmon playing the lead of Leroy Jethro Gibbs? Neither can we! Turns out that it almost happened though. Donald P. Bellisario didn’t think Harmon fit the role as he initially thought that Gibbs would be more of a “flinty type with a strong sense of honor and respect for the military”. However after Bellisario watched a tape of Harmon’s role as a Secret Service agent from the hit show The West Wing – he changed his mind. The co-executive producer Charles Floyd Johnson also said, “We all looked at that work. And everybody said, ‘He’s Gibbs.'”
Making The Cut
Popularity
In 2011, reports came out that the role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs actually had made Mark Harmon the fourth most popular actor on all of primetime TV. What an accomplishment! Furthermore a few other members of the NCIS cast also made the top ten, such as Pauley Perrette (Abby Sciuto), Cote de Pablo (Ziva David), David McCallum (Ducky Mallard), and Michael Weatherly (Anthony DiNozzo).
NCIS
