Today, Tom Selleck is best known for his portrayal of Frank Reagan, the commissioner of the New York City Police Department, in the CBS sensation Blue Bloods. No one can forget Selleck’s nine-season stint on Magnum, P.I., so this isn’t the actor’s first popular series.These two programs, though, are merely two of the actor’s many successes. The actor has made numerous other cinema and television appearances.
1. ‘Quigley Down Under’ (1990)
Soon after the end of Magnum, P.I., Selleck starred in Quigley Down Under.The plot revolves around rifleman Matthew Quigley (Selleck), who travels to the Australian outback to respond to a job posting for a sharpshooter. However, not everything is as it appears on paper.
When Quigley meets his boss (Alan Rickman), he quickly learns that he has been hired to k1ll aborigines. Quigley and his new employer fight, but Quigley is knocked out and left to d1e in a remote area of the outback. He plots his vengeance after being rescued.
2. ‘Three Men and a Baby’ (1987)
Three Men and a Baby debuted near the end of Mangum, P.I.The film follows three bachelors with little to no parenting experience as they attempt to care for a baby left with them by one of their girlfriends. Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenberg star in the film.
3. The ‘Jessie Stone’ franchise
Over the years, Tom Selleck and Jessie Stone have become interchangeable. And the next Stone film has been revealed! Selleck has played Jessie Stone numerous times, with multiple TV movies based on the character delighting Selleck fans. In adaptations of Robert P. Parker’s novels, Jessie Stone is a New York Police Chief investigating a series of murd3rs. Each TV film follows Stone down a different and perilous winding path.
4. ‘Friends’ (1996 – 2000)
Though Tom Selleck was not a main character on Friends, he did appear in ten episodes as Dr. Richard Burke, Monica’s love interest, from 1996 to 2000. Fans were pleased to see a Hollywood A-lister appear on the show. He was there just long enough, like Brad Pitt and other famous faces who graced the screen, to leave an everlasting impression — long enough until Chandler came in to seize Monica’s heart instead.
5. ‘In & Out’ (1997)
Tom Selleck portrayed Peter Malloy in the movie In & Out, a teacher from the Midwest (Kevin Kline) who starts to doubt his sexual orientation after a former pupil makes a remark about him at the Academy Awards. In his role as a newscaster, Selleck offers his opinion on the scandal that is engulfing the tiny Indiana town. Although Selleck isn’t the main character, the movie is still a well-known comedy with a number of A-list actors (and up-and-coming stars at the time) in smaller and supporting parts.