Editor’s Note:As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by Liz Carey, all are notable moments in the city’s history — some funny, some sad, others heartbreaking or celebratory, and some just downright strange.
A number of television shows and movies have filmed in Lexington and Central Kentucky — but one movie filmed in 1978 would prove to be fatal for a stuntman determined to break a world record.
Hollywood legend and Kentuckian Lee Majors starred in the movie “Steel,” which was filmed in Lexington. Majors was born Harvey Lee Yeary in Wyandotte, Michigan, but when both of his parents were killed in separate accidents, his aunt and uncle in Middlesboro adopted him…