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Tom Selleck is an American actor born in 1945 who became one of the most recognizable television and film stars. He is notable for his long career in entertainment and his iconic roles that made him a major public figure in popular culture.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Untitled
- You Never Know
- Blue bloods
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Film & TV
Acting · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Thomas William "Tom" Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B. Parker novels. In 2010, he appears as Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS.…
Known for
- Revolutionary America — Narrator (voice)2026
- The 26th Street Garage: The FBI's Untold Story of 9/11 — Narrator2021
- Friends: The Reunion — Self2021
- Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age — Self - Actor (archive footage)2021
- Out Where the West Begins — Narrator (voice)2021
- The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self2019
- This Is Bob Hope... — Self2017
- Jack — Narrator (voice)2017
- Remember Pearl Harbor — Narrator (voice)2016
- The American West — Self2016
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 60
- Total plays
- 170
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,535x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,200x
- A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,227x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,845x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,270x
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Quotes
- “Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.”
- “I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived [to sign up for courses], architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it. So I signed up for acting instead.”
- “All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.”
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Wikidata facts
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- Tom Selleck at PaleyFest 2014.jpg
- Height
- 76
- Number of children
- 2
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- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- birth name
- Thomas William Selleck
- name in native language
- Tom Selleck
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Thomas William Selleck (/ˈsɛlɪk/; born January 29, 1945) is an American actor. His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–88), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1984. From 2010–24, he was NYC Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. From 2005–15, he was troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine television films based on the Robert B. Parker novels.
In films, Selleck played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). He has also appeared in more than 50 other film and television roles since Magnum, P.I., including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He appeared in recurring television roles as Monica Geller's love interest Dr. Richard Burke in Friends, as Lance White, the likeable and naive partner on The Rockford Files, and as casino owner A. J. Cooper on Las Vegas. He also had a lead role in the television Western film The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L'Amour's books.