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Tom Selleck
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Height
6' 4"
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Spouse
'Jacquelyn Ray' (1970 - 1982) (divorced)
Jillie Mack (7 August 1987 - present); 1 child
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
True, enduring big-screen star- dom still eludes this likable leading man who seems to have everything going for him: ruggedly handsome features, a massive frame, obvious athletic ability, and genuine charm. But the strong identi- fication with a particular TV role- as the lighthearted "Magnum, P.I." (1980-88)-and an unfortunate choice of movie vehicles (trying, perhaps too hard, to be as different from the Magnum character as possible) have worked against him. A former model who played handsome hunks in most of his early films, in cluding Myra Breckinridge (1970), The Seven Minutes (1971), Daughters of Satan (1972), Terminal Island (1973), Midway (1976), and Coma (1978), Selleck spent much of the 1970s in episodic TV and telefilms, among which the Louis L'Amour Western sagas The Sacketts (1979) and The Shadow Riders (1982) showed him off to best advantage.
After winning fame (and an Emmy) as private detective Thomas Magnum on TV, Selleck renewed his bid for big-screen stardom-having had to turn down Steven Spielberg's offer to play Indiana Jones because of his series schedule-with three duds in a row: High Road to China (1983, as a 1930s aviator), Lassiter (1984, as a 1940s cat-burglar), and the futuristic cop thriller Runaway (also 1984). As one of the carefree bachelors in 3 Men and a Baby (1987), Selleck finally got a bona fide box office hit. But Her Alibi and An Innocent Man (both 1989) moved him back to square one.
The inevitable sequel, 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990), scored Selleck another hit, but that year's Quigley Down Under an offbeat "Western" set in Australia, was the biggest disappointment of all: a firstrate film with a first-rate performance from Selleck that barely found an audience (until its release on video). The actor took plenty of lumps in three 1992 releases: Folks! in which he's terrorized (and brutalized) by parents Don Ameche and Anne Jackson, Christopher Columbus-The Discovery in which he was miscast as King Ferdinand (!), and the pleasant but routine Mr. Baseball as an American ballplayer "exiled" to a Japanese team. |  |
