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Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck 2010.jpg
Selleck in 2010
Born
Thomas William Selleck

(1945-01-29) January 29, 1945 (age 74)
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
OccupationActor, film producer
Years active1965–present
Spouse(s)
Jacqueline Ray (m. 1971–1982)

Jillie Mack (m. 1987)
Children2
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service1967–1973[1]
RankArmy-USA-OR-05-2015.svg Sergeant
Unit
Awards

Thomas William Selleck (/ˈsɛlɪk/; born January 29, 1945) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for starring as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988) and as Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby. Selleck had a recurring role as Lance White, the likeable and naive partner of Jim Rockford (played by James Garner) on The Rockford Files. He also played Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels. Since 2010, he has starred as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the hit crime drama Blue Bloods on CBS.

Selleck has appeared in more than 50 film and television roles since Magnum, P.I., including Three Men and a Baby, Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and as A.J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas. He also had a lead role in the television western movie The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L'Amour's books.

Early life[edit]

Tom Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945, to housewife Martha Selleck (née Jagger)[2] (1921-2017)[3] and Robert Dean Selleck (1921-2001),[4] who was an executive and real estate investor.[5][6][7] Selleck is of mostly English ancestry, including recent immigrant ancestors. His father was of primarily English ancestry but had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent.[8][9] Through an entirely paternal line Selleck is a direct descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England, in 1633. Through this line, Selleck is the 11th generation of his family born in North America.[10]

Selleck's family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, during his childhood. He has an elder brother named Robert, a sister named Martha, and a younger brother named Daniel. Selleck graduated from Grant High School in 1962.[11]

While working as a model, Selleck attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship where he played for the USC Trojans men's basketball team.[12] He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity[13] and a member of the Trojan Knights. While Selleck was acquiring a degree in Business Administration, a drama coach suggested he try acting. He then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, under Milton Katselas. Upon receiving a draft notice during the Vietnam War, Selleck joined the California National Guard.[14] He served in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard[15] from 1967 to 1973.

Career[edit]

Early work and Magnum, P.I.[edit]

Magnum, P.I. publicity photo, 1980

Selleck's first television appearance was as a college senior on The Dating Game in 1965, and again in 1967. Soon after, he appeared in commercials for products such as Pepsi-Cola.

He began his career with bit parts in smaller movies, including Myra Breckinridge, Coma, and The Seven Minutes. He appeared in a number of TV series, mini-series and TV movies. Still struggling as an unfamiliar TV actor, Selleck had a recurring role in the 1970s as private investigator Lance White in The Rockford Files. Upon James Garner's death, he said, "Jim was a mentor to me and a friend, and I will miss him."[16][17] Two years after Garner's death, Selleck said, prior to filming his then 6th season of Blue Bloods: "It’s kind of like my mentor, who never wanted to hear he was my mentor (James Garner), I don’t accept the mentor role. That they feel that way is, I think flattering although it adds a certain amount of pressure."[18]

Selleck, an accessible but relatively untested actor, spent years receiving little interest from the entertainment industry. His big break came when he was cast in the lead role as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I.. The producers would not release the actor for other projects, so Selleck had to pass on the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which then went to Star Wars alumnus Harrison Ford. It turned out that the shooting of the pilot for Magnum was delayed for over six months by a writers' strike, which would have enabled him to complete Raiders.[19][20]

“Look, I made a deal with Magnum and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I’m proud that I lived up to my contract, and some people said, ‘You’ve got to get into a car and drive into a brick wall and get injured and get out of Magnum and do this [Raiders].’ I said ‘I gotta look my mom and dad in the eye, and we don’t do that,’ so I did Magnum…that’s not so bad is it?”

— Tom Selleck, Build Series Interview

[21]

Film[edit]

Selleck starred in the 1972 B-movie Daughters of Satan. In 1979 he starred in Concrete Cowboys with Jerry Reed. He starred in a number of film roles during and after Magnum; among the most notable were as an acrophobic police detective in Runaway; as a stand-in father in Three Men and a Baby; and as an American 19th-century sharpshooter in the Australian western Quigley Down Under, a role and film that he considers one of his best. Other leading roles include Three Men and a Little Lady; High Road to China; Lassiter; Her Alibi; An Innocent Man; Folks!; Christopher Columbus: The Discovery; Mr. Baseball; In & Out and The Love Letter.

Selleck is an avid outdoorsman, marksman and firearms collector. These interests led him to leading-man cowboy roles in Western films, starting with his role as cowboy and frontier marshal Orrin Sackett in the 1979 film The Sacketts, opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Western legends Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson. He followed The Sacketts with The Shadow Riders in 1982, then portraying a cat burglar in 1930s London in Lassiter in 1984. Quigley Down Under is probably one of his best-known Western films, although he won a "Western Heritage Award" for his 1997 role in Last Stand at Saber River. His last two cowboy roles to date were in the 2001 TNT movie Crossfire Trail (based on a Louis L'Amour novel of the same name), and the 2003 motion picture Monte Walsh.

Television[edit]

Magnum, P.I.[edit]

Selleck on the Red Carpet at the 61st Annual Academy Awards in 1989

Selleck played the role of Thomas Magnum in 1980 after filming six other TV pilots that were never sold. Magnum was a former U.S. Navy Officer, a veteran of a Special Operations unit, "SEAL" in the Vietnam War, and later a member of the "Naval Intelligence Agency" (a fictional version of the Office of Naval Intelligence), who had resigned his commission with the Navy to become a private investigator living in Hawaii. The show would go on for eight seasons and 163 episodes until 1988, winning him an Emmy Award[22] for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1984. Selleck was famous for his mustache, a Hawaiian-style aloha shirt, a Detroit Tigers baseball cap, and the Colt Model 1911A1 .45 ACP Caliber pistol his character carried. Magnum drove a Ferrari 308 GTS in the series. The model became so identified with the role that Ferrari fans now refer to the red-painted model as a "Magnum" Ferrari.

Selleck confirmed that he was the most popular choice by fans to play the role of Magnum in the once-rumored Magnum, P.I. movie.[23]

Friends[edit]

In the mid-nineties, Selleck played the role of Richard Burke, Monica's older boyfriend, starting at the end of the second season of the hugely successful TV series Friends. Richard was a divorced ophthalmologist who was a friend of Monica's parents, and at first the relationship was hidden from her parents. The relationship eventually ended over Richard's reluctance to commit to having children, though Selleck did make a few extra appearances in later episodes.

The Closer[edit]

In February 1998, Selleck accepted the lead role in a sitcom for CBS called The Closer. In it he played Jack McLaren, a legendary publicist heading up a brand new marketing firm. His costars included Ed Asner, David Krumholtz, and Penelope Ann Miller. Despite the high pedigree, and the expectations for his first series since Magnum, P.I., low ratings caused the show to be canceled after ten episodes.

Jesse Stone series[edit]

Since 2005, Selleck has starred in the role of transplanted lawman Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on Robert B. Parker's novels. To date, the series comprises nine films, with the most recent released in October 2015.[24] In addition to his portrayal of the films' protagonist, Selleck now acts as producer for the series. The fifth film, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, was not adapted from Parker's novels, but was an original story by Selleck.[25]

Las Vegas[edit]

He joined the cast of the NBC drama Las Vegas in the season-five premiere on September 28, 2007. He played A.J. Cooper, the new owner of the Montecito Casino. He replaced James Caan, who left the cast in the same episode. This was Selleck's first regular role on a drama show since he played Thomas Magnum on Magnum, P.I..

Blue Bloods[edit]

Blue Bloods is an American police procedural/drama series on CBS, filmed on location in New York City. Frank Reagan (Selleck) is the Police Commissioner; the series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department. The show premiered on September 24, 2010.

Other work[edit]

Selleck has appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies in recent years. In particular, he has sought to help bring back to popularity the western, often playing one of that genre's typical characters but thrust into a modern context.

Selleck was offered the lead role of Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch, but turned down the role because he did not want to be seen as a sex symbol. The role eventually went to David Hasselhoff.

Selleck played the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in A&E's 2004 made-for-TV movie Ike: Countdown to D-Day. The movie showed the planning, politics, and preparation for the 1944 Invasion of Normandy, and Selleck was critically lauded for playing a cool, calm Eisenhower.

Selleck appeared in a recurring role on the acclaimed ABC drama Boston Legal as Ivan Tiggs, the troubled ex-husband of Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen).

Broadway[edit]

In 2001, Selleck played the lead role of Murray in a Broadway revival of Herb Gardner's comedic play A Thousand Clowns. It ran for only two months. Critics, though far from uniformly negative about Selleck's performance, generally compared it unfavorably to that of Jason Robards, Jr., who won awards in the 1960s for playing the character on the stage and in a movie version.

Commercials[edit]

Selleck has appeared in a number of commercials: for Right Guard deodorant in 1971, with Farrah Fawcett in 1972 for the aperitif Dubonnet, and another in 1977 for the toothpaste Close-Up. He was also in a Safeguard deodorant soap commercial (date not available). Selleck did the voice-over for the 1993 AT&T advertising campaigns titled "You Will." These advertisements had a futuristic feel, and posed the question of, "What if you had the technology to _____? Well, you will ... and the company that will bring it to you? AT&T." As of December 30, 2007, he began doing commercial voice-overs for Florida's Natural orange juice.[26] In 2012, Selleck was featured in Coldwell Banker's television ad campaign focusing on homeownership.[27] On August 1, 2016, American Advisors Group (AAG), the leading reverse-mortgage lender, announced the premiere of its new television commercial campaign naming Selleck as the company's new national spokesperson following the death of Fred Thompson, their previous spokesperson. The commercials began running across cable and national networks including ABC, NBC and CBS.[28]

The Practical Guide to the Universe[edit]

In the mid-1990s, Selleck hosted a special series on TLC called The Practical Guide to the Universe, in which he talked about the stars, planets, galaxies, etc.

Personal life[edit]

From 1971 to 1982, Selleck was married to model Jacqueline Ray. During that time, he adopted her son, Kevin Shepard (born 1966). On August 7, 1987, Selleck married Jillie Mack (born 1957).[29] They have one daughter, Hannah[30] (born December 16, 1988).[13][31]

Selleck and his family live in Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village, California, on a 60-acre (24 ha) avocado ranch in Hidden Valley formerly owned by Dean Martin.[32] In a 2012 interview with People, Selleck talked about living and working on his ranch: "So I like to get outside and work on the ranch, from fixing roads to clearing brush. I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel. And I work cheaper than anyone I could hire to do it." Selleck has also stated he dislikes avocados.[33]

Selleck was sued for allegedly stealing and transferring approximately 1.4 million total gallons of water from the Calleguas Municipal Water District to the Hidden Valley Municipal Water District during the driest California drought since record-keeping began. He settled the suit by paying $21,685.55 to the Calleguas Municipal Water District, an amount which represented the district's private investigator fees in connection with the case.[34][35][36][37][38]

Selleck was an accomplished indoor and beach volleyball player playing the outside hitter position for the Outrigger Canoe Club, Honolulu. (Son Kevin attended Selleck's alma mater, USC, and became a volleyball team All-American in 1990.) Outrigger Canoe Club teammate Dennis Berg, in the summer 2011 issue of Volleyball USA magazine, said of Selleck, "Tom was a great teammate, appreciative of being included with such a talented and experienced group, practicing and playing hard when his Magnum schedule permitted.... He was very patient with all of us, and we relished the big crowds that replaced the usual sparse number of players' friends and spouses at the national tourney matches."[39]

Selleck is an avid ice hockey fan and has been seen attending Los Angeles Kings games at the Staples Center. He lists Anže Kopitar and Alexander Frolov as two of his favorite players. He was once a minority owner of his favorite baseball team since childhood, the Detroit Tigers.

One of Selleck's Magnum co-stars, Larry Manetti, in his 1996 memoir Aloha Magnum, was lavish in his praise of Selleck. Manetti lauded Selleck for his extraordinary work ethic on a grueling show (shooting for hours in the midday Hawaiian sun), Selleck's work with Hawaiian charities, and his willingness to go to bat for the program's cast and crew members...

In February 2009, Selleck joined the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund as national spokesman for the new Education Center being built on the National Mall.[15]

Political views[edit]

Selleck meeting Diana, Princess of Wales at the White House in November 1985. First Lady Nancy Reagan stands immediately between them, with Charles, Prince of Wales and President Ronald Reagan behind her. Diana is wearing the famous Travolta dress.

Selleck has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and served as a spokesman for the organization.[40][41] He resigned from the board on September 18, 2018.[42] After his close friend Charlton Heston stepped down from his role as an NRA spokesman in 2003, Selleck succeeded him.[43][44] In 2002, Selleck donated the rifle he used in Quigley Down Under (a custom 13-pound [6 kg], single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch [86-cm] barrel),[45] along with six other firearms from his other films, to the NRA; the firearms are part of the NRA's exhibit "Real Guns of Reel Heroes" at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.[40] To promote his film The Love Letter, Selleck was invited to be on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on May 19, 1999. Unexpectedly, he found himself defending his position on gun ownership and an ad in which he appeared supporting the NRA. Following questions from O'Donnell, Selleck said, "It's your show, and you can talk about it after I leave."

For a number of years, Selleck appeared in television advertising for National Review (he also subscribes to The New Republic).[46] He endorsed Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Selleck describes himself as "a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings."[47] In a 2012 magazine[which?] article about his career, he mentioned that he likes the fact that his character on Blue Bloods and his Reagan family members are visibly practicing Catholics.

In the 2016 Presidential election, Selleck did not support either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, instead writing in former Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, saying that he was deeply touched by the grace and leadership Brown showed through the 2016 Dallas police shooting.[48]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1970 Myra Breckinridge Stud
1972 Daughters of Satan James Robertson
1973 Terminal Island Dr. Milford
1976 Midway Aide to Capt. Cyril Simard War film
1977 The Washington Affair Jim Hawley
1978 Coma Sean Murphy
Superdome Jim McCauley
The Gypsy Warriors Captain Theodore Brinkenhoff
1979 Concrete Cowboys Will Eubanks Western movie
1982 Divorce Wars: A Love Story Jack Sturgess
1983 High Road to China Patrick O' Malley
1984 Lassiter Nick Lassiter
Runaway Sgt. Jack R. Ramsay
1987 Three Men and a Baby Peter Mitchell
1989 Her Alibi Phil Blackwood
An Innocent Man Jimmie Rainwood
1990 Quigley Down Under Matthew Quigley Australian Western
Three Men and a Little Lady Peter Mitchell
1992 Folks! Jon Aldrich
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery King Ferdinand V
Mr. Baseball Jack Elliot
1995 Open Season Rock Maninoff
1996 Kids for Character: Choices Count Himself Host[49]
The Magic of Flight Narrator IMAX Documentary[50]
1997 In & Out Peter Malloy
1999 The Love Letter George Matthias
2007 Meet the Robinsons Cornelius Robinson Voice role
2010 Killers Mr. Kornfeldt

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1969 Lancer Dobie Episode: "Death Bait"
Judd for the Defense Deputy Episode: The Holy Ground: The Killing Parts 1 & 2
1970 The Movie Murderer Mike Beaudine Movie
1971 Sarge Captain Denning Episode: "The Combatants"
1973 The Wide World of Mystery Mark Brolin Episode: "Shadow of Fear"
The FBI Steve Episode: "The Confession"
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law Brinkley Episode: "Snatches of a Crazy Song"
1974 Marcus Welby, M.D. Lt. Rogers Episode: "Feedback"
1974 A Case of Rape Stan Movie
1975 Returning Home Fred Derry Movie
1974–1975
2005
The Young and the Restless Jed Andrews Unknown episodes
1975 Marcus Welby, M.D. Sgt. Ed Brock Episodes: Dark Fury Parts 1 & 2
Mannix Don Brady Episode: "Design for Dying"
The Streets of San Francisco Jimmy Desco Episode: "Spooks for Sale"
1976 Most Wanted Tom Roybo Episode: "Pilot"
Charlie's Angels Dr. Alan Samuelson Episode: "Target: Angels"
1977 Bunco Gordean Movie
1978 Taxi Mike Beldon Episode: "Memories of Cab 804: Part 2"
1978, 1979 The Rockford Files PI Lance White Episodes: "White on White and Nearly Perfect", & "Nice Guys Finish Dead"
1979 The Chinese Typewriter Tom Boston Movie
1979 The Sacketts Orrin Sackett Movie
1979 Concrete Cowboys Will Eubanks Episode: "A Fine Romance"
1980–1988 Magnum, P.I. Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV Lead role
1981 Christmas in Hawaii Himself Movie
1982 Simon & Simon Thomas Magnum Episode: "Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend"
1982 The Shadow Riders Mac Traven Movie
1983 James Bond: The First 21 Years Himself Documentary
1984 Muppet Babies Himself Episode: "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?"
1986 Murder, She Wrote Thomas Magnum Episode: "Magnum on Ice: Part 2"
1988 The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen Himself Documentary
1995 Broken Trust Judge Timothy Nash Movie
1996 Ruby Jean and Joe Joe Wade Movie
1996 Way Out West Himself Movie
1996–1997, 2000 Friends Dr. Richard Burke 10 episodes
1997 Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western Himself Documentary
1997 Last Stand at Saber River Paul Cable Movie
1998 The Closer Jack McLaren 10 episodes
2000 Running Mates Gov. James Reynolds Pryce Movie
2001 Crossfire Trail Rafael "Rafe" Covington Movie
2003 Touch 'Em All McCall Touch McCall Movie
Monte Walsh Monte Walsh Movie
Twelve Mile Road Stephen Landis Movie
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King Himself Documentary
2004 Biography Narrator Documentary; episode: "Dwight D. Eisenhower: Supreme Commander-in-Chief"
Reversible Errors Larry Starczek Movie
Ike: Countdown to D-Day Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Movie
2005 Stone Cold Jesse Stone Movie
2006 Boston Legal Ivan Tiggs 4 episodes
Jesse Stone: Night Passage Jesse Stone Movie
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise Jesse Stone Movie
2007 Jesse Stone: Sea Change Jesse Stone Movie
2007–2008 Las Vegas A.J. Cooper 19 episodes
2009 Jesse Stone: Thin Ice Jesse Stone Movie
2010 Jesse Stone: No Remorse Jesse Stone Movie
2010–present Blue Bloods NYPD Police Commissioner Frank Reagan Main role
2011 Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost Jesse Stone Movie
2012 Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt Jesse Stone Movie
2013 North America Narrator 7 episodes
2014 Arnie Narrator 3 episodes
2015 Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise Jesse Stone Movie

Awards and honors[edit]

On April 28, 2000, Selleck received an honorary doctorate degree from Pepperdine University. He was chosen because of his outstanding character and ethic. He is a board member of the non-profit Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics and co-founder of the Character Counts Coalition.[51] He received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986. The star is situated at 6925 Hollywood Blvd.[52]

Year Association Category Work Result
1981,
1983–85
People's Choice Awards Favorite Male TV Performer Magnum, P.I. Won
1982–83,
1985–86
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Magnum, P.I. Nominated
1982–84,
1986–88
Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Magnum, P.I. Nominated
1984 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Magnum, P.I. Won
1985 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Magnum, P.I. Won
1998 MTV Movie Awards Best Kiss (shared with Kevin Kline) In & Out Nominated
2000 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Friends Nominated
2007 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Jesse Stone: Sea Change Nominated
2007 Satellite Awards Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Jesse Stone: Sea Change Nominated
2017 People's Choice Awards Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor[53] Blue Bloods Nominated

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