Actor Lee Majors is suing for a share of the profits he believes he is owed from 70s TV show the Six Million Dollar Man.

Majors is locked in the battle with Universal Television and is seeking a full audit of the company's books.

The 63-year-old actor starred as the physically-enhanced test pilot Steve Austin between 1974 and 1978.

After a successful two years in the show Majors said he signed a deal which entitled him to a 15% share of profits.

His lawsuit alleges he was supposed to receive the money from the first year of production but that no money was ever paid.

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The star claims accounts shown to him on request last year highlighted miscalculations.

Majors is suing for breach of contract and fraud, seeking profits he believes he is owed.

Universal said it did not comment on pending legal actions.

Majors, who was married actress Farah Fawcett, made a career playing TV action heroes.

Although the TV series came to an end, Majors has reprised his role as Steve Austin in several TV movies, alongside Lindsay Wagner as the Bionic Woman.

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The character of Steve Austin was transformed following a grave accident and his legs, arm and eye were replaced with bionic body parts.

The metamorphosis left him virtually invincible against the villains and crooks he fought.

Another of Major's famous roles was as the stuntman bounty hunter Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy from 1981 to 1986.

He still appears in films and TV shows, most recently in a film called Waitin' To Live, about a murdered father returning as a spirit to help his family.