TV Fan Favorites 2020: ‘NCIS’ Actor Mark Harmon
Here we go, TV fans. Welcome to our re-booted, re-vamped and reinvigorated Fan Favorite Poll results! You spoke and we listened, so stay tuned as we roll out the winners over the coming days!
For 17 years, Mark Harmon has not just played but inhabited the role of NCIS boss and authoritative man of few words Leroy Jethro Gibbs. It’s a tall order for an actor: Stay true to a character’s core qualities while showing the changes that come as life experience accumulates.
Harmon makes it look easy—a feat that did not go unnoticed by our readers who voted him their Fan Favorite TV Actor. “The reason we’re looking at Season 18 is fans across the globe have embraced NCIS,” he says.
Fan Favorites voters also applauded the police drama Blue Bloods and its leading man, runner-up Tom Selleck (below), who at one point pulled ahead of Harmon!

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The man behind Gibbs also beat out a number of other beloved small-screen stars in the poll, including: This Is Us‘ Sterling K. Brown and Milo Ventimiglia, Shameless star William H. Macy, and The Conners‘ John Goodman. Congratulations to Mark Harmon!
Check out more of our Fan Favorite Poll winners over here!
NCIS and Blue Bloods, Return TBD, CBS; stream all seasons of both on CBS All Access
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Both Harmon and Selleck are first rate actors who have made their long running roles fit them like a glove. Great choice!
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Not only is Mark Harmon great on NCIS, he’s had an unblemished personal history that has gone hand in hand with his career for over 40 years! I’m proud to be a fan..
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Super!!!! Nobody better than Mark Harmon!!! I'm a fan for over forty years now and he always was a wonderful human being with dignity and a golden heart. I'll always stand with him.😍👍
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Both Actors r great in their crafts!
Share and share alike!
So,none of any other color come close?
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Because he/she/it is a bot trying to smear a man who never in his whole career got one bad word.
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Why do you say this?
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Harmon has always maintained his character. I just hope between Abby and Sloane characters he doesn’t get totally run through the muck! If he doesn’t open his eyes he will be ruined. A sad way to depart.
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Harmon is a bad person, he shouldn't be awarded for it.
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Why do you say that?
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