Tom Selleck - Wikipedia. Thomas William Selleck (born January 2. American actor and film producer. He is known for starring as private investigator. Thomas Magnum in the television series. Magnum, P. I. (1. Before that, he had a recurring role as Lance White, the favorable and naive partner of Jim Rockford (played by James Garner) on The Rockford Files.

He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made- for- TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels. Since 2.

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NYPD Commissioner. Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS.[2]Selleck has appeared in more than 5. Magnum, P. I., including Three Men and a Baby, Quigley Down Under, Mr.

Baseball, and Lassiter. Selleck also appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and as A. J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas. Early life[edit]Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1.

Martha Selleck (née Jagger),[3] a housewife, and Robert Dean Selleck, who was an executive and real estate investor.[4][5][6] Selleck is of mostly English ancestry, including recent immigrant ancestors. Tom Selleck's father was of primarily English ancestry but also had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent.[2][7][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 1. Through this line, Tom Selleck is the 1. North America.[1. Watch African Cats Download Full. Selleck's family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, during his childhood. He has an elder brother named Robert, a younger sister named Martha, and a younger brother named Daniel. Watch Bad Biology Online Hulu there.

Selleck graduated from Grant High School in 1. 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.[1.

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He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity[1. Trojan Knights. While acquiring a degree in Business Administration, a drama coach suggested Selleck try acting. He then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, under Milton Katselas. Upon receiving a draft notice for the Vietnam War, Selleck joined the California National Guard.[1. He served in the 1.

Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard[1. Early work and Magnum, P.

I.[edit]Magnum, P. I. publicity photo, 1. Selleck's first TV appearance was as a college senior on The Dating Game in 1.

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 also appeared in a number of TV series, mini- series and TV movies. Still struggling as an unfamiliar, television actor, Selleck also had a recurring role in the 1.

Lance White in The Rockford Files. An avid James Garner fan, since childhood, who also watched his mentor's show, Selleck's Lance was very trusting and always lucky, much to the annoyance of Jim Rockford. White would frequently say to Rockford, "Don't worry, Jim; clues will turn up," and then a clue would just turn up, much to Rockford's consternation, for whom obtaining clues required hard work and hard knocks. Selleck's character was based on one played in Garner's earlier TV series Maverick (1.

Wayde Preston in the episode "The Saga of Waco Williams".[citation needed] Despite appearing in only 2 episodes, and in later interviews, Selleck credited Garner "as a mentor,"[1. July 1. 9, 2. 01. Upon his death, he said of his TV private investigator: "Jim was a mentor to me and a friend, and I will miss him."[1. Two years after Garner's death, Selleck also said, prior to filming his then 6th season of his top- rated series, 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."[1. 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.[1. Selleck starred in the 1. B- movie Daughters of Satan, and then Selleck starred in the 1. TV movie 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 1. 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 1. The Sacketts, opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Western legends Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson.

He followed The Sacketts with The Shadow Riders in 1. London in Lassiter in 1.

Quigley Down Under is probably one of his best- known Western films, although he also won a "Western Heritage Award" for his 1. Last Stand at Saber River. His last two cowboy roles to date were in the 2. TNT movie Crossfire Trail (based on a Louis L'Amour novel of the same name), and the 2. Monte Walsh. He most recently appeared in the film Killers, along with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher.

Television[edit]Magnum, P. I.[edit]Selleck played the role of Thomas Magnum in 1. 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 1. Emmy Award[2. 1] for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1.

Selleck was famous for his mustache, a Hawaiian- style aloha shirt, a Detroit Tigers baseball cap, and the Colt Model 1. A1 . 4. 5 ACP Caliber pistol his character carried.

Magnum drove a Ferrari 3. GTSi 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.[2. 2]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 shows. The Closer[edit]In February 1. Selleck accepted the lead role in a sitcom for CBS called The Closer.

In it he played Jack Mc. Laren, 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 2. 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 2.