Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer. His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P. I. Since 2010, he has co-starred as New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods. He is a direct descendant of English colonist David Sellecking who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England, in 1633.
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Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer. His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P. I. Since 2010, he has co-starred as New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods. He has also appeared in more than 50 other film and television roles, including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He is a California Army National Guard veteran, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, an endorser in advertisements for National Review magazine, and co-founder of the Character Counts! organization. Through an entirely paternal line, he is a direct descendant of English colonist David Sellecking who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England, in 1633. He served in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California army National Guard from 1967 to 1973. He was the face of Salem cigarettes and Revlon’s Chaz cologne. He won a Western Heritage Award for his role in Last Stand at Last River at Saber River in 1997. His best-known Western is one of one of the 1930s London cat burglar in Quigly Down Under in 1984. His first television appearance was as a college senior on The Dating Game in 1965 and again in 1967. In 1972, he starred in the B-movie Daughters of Satan. He appeared in the commercial for Right Guard deodorant in 1971, with Farrah Fawcett in 1972 for the aperitif Dubonnet, and another in 1977 for the toothpaste Close-Up.
His father was of primarily English ancestry but had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent. He started his career with bit parts in smaller movies, including Myra Breckinridge ), Coma, and The Seven Minutes. He starred in Concrete Cowboys with Jerry Reed in 1979, then The Shadow Riders in 1982, then portraying The Sacketts with The Shadow Rider in 1983. He had a recurring role in the 1970s as private investigator Lance White in The Rockford Files, and as casino owner A. J. Cooper on Las Vegas. He also had a lead role in a television western movie The Sackts, based on two of Louis L’Amour’s books. He played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby and its sequel. His last role was as cowboy Orrin Sackett in the 1979 film The S Sackett, opposite Ben Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Ben Elliott and Sam Elliott. He spent little years receiving little interest from the entertainment industry, but he spent a few years as an accessible big-name actor, but received little praise from the media. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He and his wife have a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law, and two step-daughters, all of whom are also actors and have appeared in TV and film roles.
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