Martin E. Brooks (born November 30, 1925) is an American character actor known for playing scientist Dr. Rudy Wells in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off, The Bionic Woman, from 1975 onward (a role originally portrayed by Martin Balsam and then by Alan Oppenheimer). In the fall of 1977, Brooks and Richard Anderson (as Oscar Goldman) became the known first actors to portray the same characters as regulars simultaneously on two different networks.