Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 1981

33rd Primetime Emmy Awards · held September 13, 1981 · 6 nominees

• Winner Daniel J. Travanti · Hill Street Blues
• Nominee Jim Davis · Dallas
• Nominee Larry Hagman · Dallas
• Nominee Ed Asner · Lou Grant
• Nominee Louis Gossett Jr.
• Nominee Pernell Roberts · Trapper John, M.D.

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