Tom Selleck - wikipedia Tom Selleck Tom Selleck Selleck in 2010 Thomas William Selleck ( 1945 - 01 - 29 ) January 29, 1945 ( age 72 ) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Nationality American Alma mater University of Southern California Occupation Actor, film producer Years active 1969 -- present Spouse ( s ) Jacqueline Ray ( m. 1971 -- 1982 ; divorced ) Jillie Mack ( m. 1987 -- present ) Children Military career Allegiance United States Service / branch United States Army Years of service 1967 -- 1973 Rank Sergeant Unit Army National Guard, California 1st Battalion, 160th Infantry Awards California National Guard Federal Service Ribbon California State Service Ribbon California Drill Attendance Ribbon Thomas William Selleck ( born January 29, 1945 ) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for starring as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. ( 1980 -- 1988 ). 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 2010, he has also been a primary cast member as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS. Selleck has appeared in more than 50 film and television roles since 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. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early work and Magnum, P.I. 2.2 Film 2.3 Television 2.3. 1 Magnum, P.I. 2.3. 2 Friends 2.3. 3 The Closer 2.3. 4 Jesse Stone series 2.3. 5 Las Vegas 2.3. 6 Blue Bloods 2.3. 7 Other work 2.4 Broadway 2.5 Commercials 2.6 The Practical Guide to the Universe 3 Awards and accolades 4 Personal life 4.1 Political views 5 Filmography 6 References 7 External links Early life Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945, to Martha Selleck ( née Jagger ), a housewife, and Robert Dean Selleck, who was an executive and real estate investor. 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. Through an entirely paternal line Selleck is a direct descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England in 1633. Through this line, Tom Selleck is the 11th generation of his family born in North America. 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. Selleck graduated from Grant High School in 1962. 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. He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of the Trojan Knights. While Selleck was acquiring a degree in Business Administration, a drama coach suggested he 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. He served in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973. Career Early work and Magnum, P.I. Magnum, P.I. publicity photo, 1980 Selleck 's first TV appearance was as a college senior on The Dating Game in 1965, and again in 1967. 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 1970s as `` too good to be true '' private investigator 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, `` Do n'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 ( 1957 ) by Wayde Preston in the episode `` The Saga of Waco Williams ''. Despite appearing in only 2 episodes, and in later interviews, Selleck credited Garner `` as a mentor, '' and continued to stay friends with him, for over 35 years, until his childhood movie hero 's, mentor 's and friend 's death, on July 19, 2014. Upon his death, he said of his TV private investigator : `` Jim was a mentor to me and a friend, and I will miss him. '' 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 do n't accept the mentor role. That they feel that way is, I think flattering although it adds a certain amount of pressure. '' 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. Film Selleck at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Selleck starred in the 1972 B - movie Daughters of Satan, and then Selleck starred in the 1979 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 19th - century sharpshooter in the 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 1979 film The Sacketts, opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Western legends Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson. He followed The Sacketts with The Shadow Riders in 1982, then portraying a cat burglar in 1930s London in Lassiter in 1984. Quigley Down Under is probably one of his best - known Western films, although he also won a `` Western Heritage Award '' for his 1997 role in Last Stand at Saber River. His last two cowboy roles to date were in the 2001 TNT movie Crossfire Trail ( based on a Louis L'Amour novel of the same name ), and the 2003 motion picture Monte Walsh. He most recently appeared in the film Killers, along with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher. Television Magnum, P.I. Selleck on the Red Carpet at the 61st Annual Academy Awards in 1989 Selleck played the role of Thomas Magnum in 1980 after filming six other 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 163 episodes until 1988, winning him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1984. Selleck was famous for his mustache, a Hawaiian - style aloha shirt, a Detroit Tigers baseball cap, and the Colt Model 1911A1. 45 ACP Caliber pistol his character carried. Magnum drove a Ferrari 308GTSi 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. Friends 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 In February 1998, Selleck accepted the lead role in a sitcom for CBS called The Closer. In it he played Jack McLaren, 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 Since 2005, 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 2015. In addition to his portrayal of the films ' protagonist, Selleck now also acts as producer for the series. The fifth film, Jesse Stone : Thin Ice, was not adapted from Parker 's novels, but rather an original story by Selleck. Las Vegas He joined the cast of the NBC drama Las Vegas in the season - five premiere on September 28, 2007. He played A.J. Cooper, the new owner of the Montecito Casino. He replaced James Caan, who left the cast in the same episode. This was Selleck 's first regular role on a drama show since he played Thomas Magnum on Magnum, P.I.. Blue Bloods Blue Bloods is an American police procedural / drama series on CBS, filmed on location in New York City. Frank Reagan ( Selleck ) is the Police Commissioner ; the series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department. The show premiered on September 24, 2010. Other work Selleck has also appeared in a number of made - for - TV movies in recent years. In particular, he has sought to help bring back to popularity the western, often playing one of that genre 's typical characters but thrust into a modern context. Selleck was offered the lead role of Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch, but turned down the role because he did not want to be seen as a sex symbol. The role eventually went to David Hasselhoff. Selleck played the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in A&E 's 2004 made - for - TV movie Ike : Countdown to D - Day. The movie showed the planning, politics, and preparation for the 1944 Invasion of Normandy, and Selleck was critically lauded for playing a cool, calm Eisenhower. Selleck appeared in a recurring role on the acclaimed ABC drama Boston Legal as Ivan Tiggs, the troubled ex-husband of Shirley Schmidt ( Candice Bergen ). Broadway In 2001, Selleck played the lead role of Murray in a Broadway revival of Herb Gardner 's comedic play A Thousand Clowns. It ran for only two months. Critics, though far from uniformly negative about Selleck 's performance, generally compared it unfavorably to that of Jason Robards, Jr., who won awards in the 1960s for playing the character on the stage and in a movie version. ( It remains the role with which Robards is most identified. ) Playwright Gardner, however, actually preferred Selleck to Robards in the part, and even said that Selleck was the way he had always envisioned Murray. Commercials Tom Selleck did quite a few commercials : for Right Guard deodorant in 1971, with Farrah Fawcett in 1972 for the apertif Dubonnet, and another in 1977 for the toothpaste Close - Up. He was also in a Safeguard deodorant soap commercial ( date not available ). Selleck did the voice - over for the 1993 AT&T advertising campaigns titled `` You Will. '' These advertisements had a futuristic feel, and posed the question of, `` What if you had the technology to ______ ? Well, you will... and the company that will bring it to you ? AT&T. '' As of December 30, 2007, he began doing commercial voice - overs for Florida 's Natural orange juice. In 2012, Selleck was featured in Coldwell Banker 's television ad campaign focusing on homeownership. On August 1, 2016, American Advisors Group ( AAG ), the leading reverse - mortgage lender, announced the premiere of its new television commercial campaign naming Selleck as the company 's new national spokesperson following the death of Fred Thompson, their previous spokesperson. The commercials began running across cable and national networks including ABC, NBC and CBS. AAG Debuts New Reverse Mortgage Commercial, Information Kit Featuring New Spokesperson, Tom Selleck The Practical guide to the Universe In the mid-1990s, Selleck hosted a special series on TLC called The Practical Guide to the Universe, in which he talked about the stars, planets, galaxies, etc. Awards and accolades On April 28, 2000, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Pepperdine University. He was chosen because of his outstanding character and ethic. He is a board member of the non-profit Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics and co-founder of the Character Counts Coalition. Selleck received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986. The star is situated at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. Golden Apple Awards -- 1982 Male Star of the year Golden Apple Awards -- 1983 Male Star of the year People 's Choice Award -- 1984 Favorite Male TV Performer Emmy Award ( 1984 ) -- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series People 's Choice Award -- 1985 Favorite Male TV Performer People 's Choice Award -- 1985 Favorite All - Round Male Entertainer Golden Globe Award ( 1985 ) -- Best Performance by an Actor in a TV - Series - Drama National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum -- 2010 Inductee into the Hall of Great Western Performers In 1993, during the brief run of the late night The Chevy Chase Show on Fox, Selleck guest - starred. As a gag, he asked to be presented his 1992 Worst Supporting Actor Razzie award for his performance as King Ferdinand of Spain in Christopher Columbus : The Discovery. When the Razzie was presented to him on the air, Selleck took it in stride and asked the entire studio audience to `` blow me a raspberry. '' Thus Selleck became the third person in Razzie history to voluntarily accept one of the Worst Achievements in Film statuettes. Personal life From 1971 to 1982, Selleck was married to model Jacqueline Ray. During that time, he adopted her son, Kevin Shepard ( born 1966 ). On August 7, 1987, Selleck married Jillie Mack ( born 1957 ). They have one daughter, Hannah Margaret Selleck ( born December 16, 1988 ). The family lives in Thousand Oaks - Westlake Village, California on a 60 - acre ( 24 ha ) avocado farm. In a 2012 interview with People, Selleck talked about living and working on his farm : `` So I like to get outside and work on the farm, from fixing roads to clearing brush. I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel. And I work cheaper than anyone I could hire to do it. '' Selleck has also stated he dislikes avocados. He was an accomplished indoor and beach volleyball player playing the outside hitter position for the Outrigger Canoe Club, Honolulu. ( Son Kevin attended Selleck 's alma mater, USC, and became a volleyball team All - American in 1990. ) Outrigger Canoe Club teammate Dennis Berg, in the summer 2011 issue of Volleyball USA magazine, said of Selleck, `` Tom was a great teammate, appreciative of being included with such a talented and experienced group, practicing and playing hard when his Magnum schedule permitted... He was very patient with all of us, and we relished the big crowds that replaced the usual sparse number of players ' friends and spouses at the national tourney matches. '' Selleck is an avid ice hockey fan and has been seen attending Los Angeles Kings games at the Staples Center. He lists Anze Kopitar and Alexander Frolov as two of his favorite players. He was once a minority owner of his favorite baseball team since childhood, the Detroit Tigers. One of Selleck 's Magnum co-stars, Larry Manetti, in his 1996 memoir Aloha Magnum, was lavish in his praise of Selleck. Manetti lauded Selleck for his extraordinary work ethic on a grueling show ( shooting for hours in the midday Hawaiian sun ), Selleck 's work with Hawaiian charities, and his willingness to go to bat for the program 's cast and crew members. In February 2009, Selleck joined the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund as national spokesman for the new Education Center being built on the National Mall. Political views Selleck meeting Diana, Princess of Wales at the White House in November 1985. First Lady Nancy Reagan stands immediately between them, with Charles, Prince of Wales and President Ronald Reagan behind her. Diana is wearing the famous Travolta dress. To promote his film The Love Letter, Selleck was invited to be on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on May 19, 1999. Unexpectedly, he found himself defending an ad in which he appeared supporting the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) and his position on gun ownership. After questions from O'Donnell, Selleck said, `` It 's your show, and you can talk about it after I leave. '' Selleck is a member of the Board of Directors and public spokesman of the NRA. After his close friend Charlton Heston stepped down -- due to failing health -- as the highly visible public spokesman of the NRA in 2003, Selleck stepped up in comparable manner to succeed him. In 2002, Selleck donated the rifle he used in Quigley Down Under ( a custom 13 - pound ( 6 kg ), single - shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34 - inch ( 86 - cm ) barrel ), along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA 's exhibit `` Real Guns of Reel Heroes '' at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia. For a number of years, Selleck appeared in television advertising for National Review ( he also subscribes to The New Republic ). He endorsed Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Selleck describes himself as `` a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings. '' In a 2012 magazine article about his career, he mentioned that he likes the fact that his character on Blue Bloods and his Reagan family members are visibly practicing Catholics, while adding that he is not very religious himself. In the 2016 Presidential election, Selleck did not support either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, instead writing in former Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, saying that he was deeply touched by the grace and leadership Brown showed through the 2016 Dallas police shooting. Filmography Films Year Title Role Notes 1970 Myra Breckinridge Stud The Movie Murderer Mike Beaudine TV movie 1972 Daughters of Satan James Robertson 1973 Terminal Island Dr. Milford Case of Rape, AA Case of Rape Stan TV movie Returning Home Fred Derry TV movie 1976 Midway Aide to Capt. Cyril Simard War Film 1977 Bunco Gordean TV movie The Washington Affair Jim Hawley 1978 Coma Sean Murphy Superdome Jim McCauley The Gypsy Warriors Captain Theodore Brinkenhoff 1979 The Chinese Typewriter Tom Boston TV movie Concrete Cowboys Will Eubanks Western movie The Sacketts Orrin Sackett Western TV movie with Sam Elliott, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson, Jeff Osterhage, John Vernon, L.Q. Jones, Paul Koslo, Slim Pickins, Pat Buttram, and Louis L'amour as Himself 1982 Divorce Wars : A Love Story Jack Sturgess The Shadow Riders Mac Traven Western TV movie with Katherine Ross, Harry Carey, Jr., Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson, Jeff Osterhage, R.G. Armstrong, Gene Evans, and Geoffrey Lewis. High Road to China Patrick O ' Malley With Wilford Brimley 1984 Lassiter Nick Lassiter With Jane Seymour, and Bob Hoskins. Runaway Sgt. Jack R. Ramsay Three Men and a Baby Peter Mitchell Her Alibi Phil Blackwood Innocent Man, An An Innocent Man Jimmie Rainwood Quigley Down Under Matthew Quigley Australian Western Three Men and a Little Lady Peter Mitchell Folks ! Jon Aldrich Nominated -- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor Christopher Columbus : The Discovery King Ferdinand V Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor Mr. Baseball Jack Elliot 1995 Broken Trust Judge Timothy Nash Thriller TV movie Open Season Rock Maninoff Ruby Jean and Joe Joe Wade Western TV movie The Magic of Flight Narrator IMAX Documentary 1997 Last Stand at Saber River Paul Cable Western TV movie In & Out Peter Malloy Nominated -- Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Nominated -- MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss ( with Kevin Kline ) 1999 Love Letter, The The Love Letter George Matthias 2000 Running Mates Gov. James Reynolds Pryce TV movie With Teri Hatcher, Robert Culp, and Bruce McGill. Crossfire Trail Rafael `` Rafe '' Covington Western TV movie 2003 Touch ' Em All McCall Touch McCall TV movie Monte Walsh Monte Walsh Western TV movie Twelve Mile Road Stephen Landis TV movie Reversible Errors Larry Starczek TV movie Ike : Countdown to D - Day Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower TV movie 2005 Stone Cold Jesse Stone TV movie 2006 Jesse Stone : Night Passage Jesse Stone TV movie Jesse Stone : Death in Paradise Jesse Stone TV movie 2007 Meet the Robinsons Cornelius Robinson Voice Jesse Stone : Sea Change Jesse Stone TV movie Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated -- Satellite Award for Best Actor -- Miniseries or Television Film 2009 Jesse Stone : Thin Ice Jesse Stone TV movie Jesse Stone : No Remorse Jesse Stone TV movie Killers Mr. Kornfeldt 2011 Jesse Stone : Innocents Lost Jesse Stone TV movie 2012 Jesse Stone : Benefit of the Doubt Jesse Stone TV movie 2015 Jesse Stone : Lost in Paradise Jesse Stone TV movie Television series Year Title Role Notes 1969 Lancer Dobie Episode : `` Death Bait '' Judd for the Defense Deputy Episode : The Holy Ground : The Killing Parts 1 & 2 1971 Sarge Captain Denning Episode : `` The Combatants '' 1973 The Wide World of Mystery Mark Brolin Episode : `` Shadow of Fear '' The FBI Steve Episode : `` The Confession '' Owen Marshall : Counselor at Law Brinkley Episode : `` Snatches of a Crazy Song '' Marcus Welby, M.D. Lt. Rogers Episode : `` Feedback '' 1974 -- 1975 Young and the Restless, The The Young and the Restless Jed Andrews Unknown episodes Marcus Welby, M.D. Sgt. Ed Brock Episodes : Dark Fury Parts 1 & 2 Mannix Don Brady Episode : `` Design for Dying '' Streets of San Francisco, The The Streets of San Francisco Jimmy Desco Episode : `` Spooks for Sale '' 1976 Most Wanted Tom Roybo Episode : `` Pilot '' Charlie 's Angels Dr. Alan Samuelson Episode : `` Target : Angels '' 1978 Taxi Mike Beldon Episode : `` Memories of Cab 804 : Part 2 '' 1978 -- 1979 Rockford Files, The The Rockford Files PI Lance White Episodes : `` White on White and Nearly Perfect '', & `` Nice Guys Finish Dead '' 1979 Concrete Cowboys Will Eubanks Episode : `` A Fine Romance '' 1980 -- 1988 Magnum, P.I. Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV 159 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Television Series Drama People 's Choice Award for Favorite Male TV Performer ( 1981, 1983 -- 1985 ) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Television Series Drama ( 1982 -- 1984, 1986 -- 1988 ) Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series ( 1982 -- 1983, 1985, 1986 ) 1981 Christmas in Hawaii Himself TV movie 1982 Simon & Simon Thomas Magnum Episode : `` Emeralds Are Not a Girl 's Best Friend '' James Bond : The First 21 Years Himself TV movie Documentary 1984 Muppet Babies Himself Episode : `` What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up ? '' 1985 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala Himself TV movie The Merv Griffin Show Himself episode : 1 - 2 - 1985 1986 Murder, She Wrote Thomas Magnum Episode : `` Magnum on Ice : Part 2 '' The World 's Greatest Stunts : A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen Himself TV movie Documentary 1995 The Annual Artist Rights Foundation Honors Steven Spielberg Himself TV movie Way Out West Himself TV movie Documentary 1996 -- 1997, 2000 Friends Dr. Richard Burke 10 episodes Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series 1997 Big Guns Talk : The Story of the Western Himself TV movie Documentary 1998 Closer, The The Closer Jack McLaren 10 episodes 2003 Intimate Portrait Himself Episode : Dana Delaney Time Machine : When Cowboys Were King Himself TV movie Documentary Biography Himself / Narrator TV series Documentary episode : Dwight D. Eisenhower : Supreme Commander - in - Chief Biography Himself TV series Documentary episode : Tom Selleck : More Than Magnum 2005 The Young and the Restless Jed Andrews unknown episodes 2006 Boston Legal Ivan Tiggs 4 episodes 2007 -- 2008 Las Vegas A.J. Cooper 19 episodes 2010 -- present Blue Bloods NYPD Police Commissioner Frank Reagan 165 episodes Nominated -- People 's Choice Award for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor ( 2017 ) 2013 North America Narrator 7 episodes 2014 Arnie ( TV series ) Narrator 3 episodes Biography portal Film portal Television portal Basketball portal References Jump up ^ `` Selleck, Tom, SGT ''. TogetherWeServed. 2016. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 26. ^ Jump up to : `` Tom Selleck ''. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 25, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Tom Selleck Plays ' Ike ' In WW II Movie ; Springfield Sings Of The Pain Of Love ; Extreme Home Makeovers For Deserving Families, CNN ''. Accessmylibrary.com. May 19, 2004. Archived from the original on April 12, 2009. 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