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Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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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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Born: 1945
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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.…

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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... — Self

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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.