Biography
I." (CBS, 1980-88). As often happens with long-running, star-making roles like "Magnum," audiences were initially unwilling to accept him as anything other than an adventurous wise-cracking detective, but Selleck eventually nabbed big screen roles with films like "Three Men & A Baby" (1987), "Mr. Baseball" (1992) and "In & Out" (1997), which played up the actor's natural tendency towards playful, aw-shucks charm. Television, however, proved to …
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Career Milestones
| Appeared in the first of over 50 TV commercials beginning with a Pepsi ad in which he played a basketball player | ||
| Began working as a model in college | ||
| Did commercials for Salem cigarettes and Revlon | ||
| Moved to Sherman Oaks, CA as a child | ||
| Won a basketball scholarship to USC | ||
1965 | Picked out of a TV studio audience to be a contestant on "The Dating Game" | |
1967 | Signed seven-year contract with 20th Century-Fox after leaving college | |
1970 | First TV-movie, "The Movie Murderer" (NBC) | |
1970 | Played a recurring character in "Bracken's World" (NBC) | |
1970 | Seen in a Pepsi ad by Mae West, who him hired to play a stud in "Myra Breckinbridge," his feature acting debut | |
1971 | Had a small role as a publisher in Russ Meyer's "The Seven Minutes," based on Irving Wallace's novel about a pornography trial | |
1972 | First starring role in "Daughters of Satan" | |
1974 | Made occasional appearances on the daytime soap "The Young and the Restless" (CBS) as Jed Andrews | |
1975 | First starring role in TV-movie, "Returning Home" (ABC) | |
1978 | Appeared on two episodes of "The Rockford Files" (NBC) as Lance White, "the perfect detective" | |
1979 | Co-starred in his miniseries debut "The Sacketts" (NBC) | |
1979 | Co-starred in the busted detective show pilot "Boston and Kilbride" | |
1980 | Played the title character, a Vietnam vet-turned-Hawaiian private eye, on the popular CBS series "Magnum, P.I."; executive produced the final two seasons | |
1984 | Played an acrophobic police detective in "Runaway" | |
1987 | Co-stared with Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson in the comedy hit "Three Men and a Baby" | |
1987 | First story credit, provided story for the "Limbo" episode of "Magnum, P.I." | |
1988 | Formed his own production company T.W.S. Productions | |
1989 | Executive produced a series of "B.L. Stryker" detective movies for ABC | |
1990 | Played an American cowboy in the Australian Western "Quigley Down Under" | |
1990 | Re-teamed with Guttenberg and Danson for the sequel "Three Men and a Little Lady" | |
1996 | Played the recurring role of Dr. Richard Burke, Monica's (Courteney Cox) love interest on the popular sitcom "Friends" (NBC) | |
1997 | Garnered critical praise for his performance as an openly gay TV reporter in the comedy film "In & Out" | |
1998 | Returned to series TV as star of the CBS sitcom "The Closer" | |
1999 | Co-starred in "The Love Letter" with Kate Capshaw | |
2000 | Starred as a presidential candidate in the TNT film "Running Mates" | |
2001 | Co-exective produced and starred in "Louis L'Amour's Crossfire Trail" (TNT) | |
2001 | Made Broadway debut starring in the stage revival of "A Thousand Clowns" | |
2004 | Portrayed General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the A&E TV movie "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" | |
2004 | Starred opposite Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy in Scott Turow's crime thriller "Reversible Errors" (CBS) | |
2006 | Guest-starred on several episodes of "Boston Legal" (ABC) as Ivan Tiggs | |
2007 | Joined the cast of NBC's "Las Vegas" as a billionaire who becomes the new owner of the Montecito Resort & Casino | |
2007 | Portrayed small-town Police Chief Jesse Stone in the CBS movie "Sea Change"; earned an Emmy nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | |
2009 | Reprised his role of Police Chief Jesse Stone in the CBS movie "Jesse Stone: Thin Ice" | |
2010 | Acted alongside Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in the action-comedy "Killers" | |
2010 | Cast as NYC police commissioner and family man Chief Frank Reagan on the CBS crime drama series "Blue Bloods" | |
2010 | Returned to play titular character in the CBS movie "Jesse Stone: No Remorse" | |
Awards
1982 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in Magnum, P.I. |
1983 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in Magnum, P.I. |
1984 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in Magnum, P.I. |
1985 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in Magnum, P.I. |
1986 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in Magnum, P.I. |
1998 | MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in In & Out |
2000 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor In a Comedy Series in Friends |
2007 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In a Miniseries or Movie in Jesse Stone: Sea Change |