Tom Selleck

Thomas William Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 29, 1945, to housewife Martha Selleck ({{nee|Jagger}}){{cite news |title=Tom Selleck Plays 'Ike' In WW II Movie; Springfield Sings of the Pain of Love; Extreme Home Makeovers For Deserving Families, CNN |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-1425048_ITM |url-status=dead |publisher=accessmylibrary.com |date=May 19, 2004 |access-date=August 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412192322/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-1425048_ITM |archive-date=April 12, 2009}} and Robert Dean Selleck, who was a real estate developer.{{cite web |title=California businessman, father of 'Magnum P.I.' star dies at 79 |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/03/26/news/obits.html |publisher=archives.starbulletin.com |date=March 26, 2001 |access-date=August 10, 2010}}{{cite book |last1=Armstrong |first1=Alice Catt |title=Who's who in California |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uN4jAQAAIAAJ&q=%22George+Samuel+and+Nellie+Louise+(Fife)+S.;+m.+Martha+Jagger.+%22 |year=1994 |publisher=Who's Who Historical Society |isbn=9781880142042 |access-date=August 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330124857/http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/03/26/news/obits.html |archive-date=March 30, 2009 |url-status=live}} He has an elder brother Robert, a younger sister Martha, and a younger brother Daniel.{{cite news |last=Biederman |first=Patricia Ward |department=Metro; 2; Zones Desk |page=6 |title='What higher honor can be conferred on a woman than to be a mother, and an American mother!' --Dr. Norman Vincent Peale : Mrs. Selleck's Absent Son Steals Supermom Thunder |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-23-me-11551-story.html |access-date=August 7, 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |eissn=2165-1736 |date=April 23, 1985 |issn=0458-3035 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520085232/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-23-me-11551-story.html |archive-date=May 20, 2021 |id={{ProQuest|292100299}} |oclc=3638237}}

Selleck is of mostly English descent, although he also has some German ancestry. Through a paternal line, Selleck is a direct descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England, in 1633. Through this line, Selleck is of the 11th generation of his family born in North America.Smith, Emily, The Tom Selleck Handbook – Everything You Need to Know about Tom Selleck. p. 3Bonderoff, Jason, Tom Selleck: An Unauthorized Biography. New American Library, 1983. pp. 4–5.

Selleck's family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, in 1948.{{cite web |title=Martha Selleck Dead: Tom Selleck Mother Was 96 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/martha-selleck-dead-tom-selleck-mother-was-96-982051 |website=www.hollywoodreporter.com |date=March 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302012725/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/martha-selleck-dead-tom-selleck-mother-was-96-982051 |archive-date=March 2, 2017 |url-status=live}} He graduated from Grant High School in 1962{{cite web |title=retrieved 2007-07-30 |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019593/bio |url-status=dead |publisher=movies.yahoo.com |access-date=December 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117115926/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019593/bio |archive-date=January 17, 2012}} and enrolled at Los Angeles Valley College, living at home and saving money.{{cite web |title=Selleck, Tom, SGT |url=https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=340877 |website=Togetherweserved.com |access-date=April 6, 2019}} Selleck, who stands {{convert|6|ft|4|in|m}} tall, transferred to the University of Southern California during his junior year to play for the USC Trojans men's basketball team.{{cite web |last=Vitale |first=Dick |title=Jason Williams' injury a big topic at U.S. Open |url=https://assets.espn.go.com/dickvitale/vcolumn010831NewYorkplusJWill.html |publisher=ESPN |date=April 17, 2003 |access-date=August 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414104435/http://assets.espn.go.com/dickvitale/vcolumn010831NewYorkplusJWill.html |archive-date=April 14, 2009 |url-status=live}} He also was a pitcher and designated hitter for the USC baseball team.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/354628886/|title=Cal Sweeps Two From Trojans|date=May 9, 1965|work=Oakland Tribune|access-date=August 28, 2022 |quote=…both runners advanced a base when USC pitcher Tom Selleck’s pickoff attempt went wild}} He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of the Trojan Knights. While he was majoring in Business Administration, a drama coach suggested Selleck try acting and, in his senior year, he dropped out of the university.{{cite journal |title=Tom Selleck |journal=The Ladies' Home Journal |volume=102 |pages=196 |date=1985}} Selleck then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, under Milton Katselas.

Upon receiving a draft notice during the Vietnam War, Selleck enlisted in the California Army National Guard.{{sfn|Selleck|Henican|2024|pp=39{{endash}}40}} He served in Company C, 1st Battalion, 160th Infantry from 1967 to 1973, attaining the rank of sergeant.{{sfn|Selleck|Henican|2024|pp=47, 52}}

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Selleck's first television 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 (invited on the set by Mae West), Coma, and The Seven Minutes. He appeared in a number of TV series, mini-series and TV movies. He was also the face of Salem cigarettes and Revlon's Chaz cologne. Selleck appeared in a 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. He was also in a Safeguard deodorant soap commercial (1972). In 1972, he starred in the B-movie Daughters of Satan. He had a recurring role in the 1970s as private investigator Lance White in The Rockford Files.

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, and that same year, Concrete Cowboys with Jerry Reed. The Shadow Riders followed in 1982. Then Selleck shifted gears, portraying a cat burglar in 1930s London in Lassiter in 1984. Quigley Down Under is one of his best-known Western films, but it was for his 1997 role in Last Stand at Saber River that he won a "Western Heritage Award".

Selleck's 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 meant that the role went to actor Harrison Ford instead. 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.{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Bruce R. |title=Tom Selleck recalls 'Magnum,' looks to 'Blue Bloods' for change |url=http://siouxcityjournal.com/entertainment/television/tom-selleck-recalls-magnum-looks-to-blue-bloods-for-change/article_8bf13baf-850b-5a0a-8a70-f7d448cac369.html |url-status=dead |work=Sioux City Journal |date=September 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210110907/https://siouxcityjournal.com/entertainment/television/tom-selleck-recalls-magnum-looks-to-blue-bloods-for-change/article_8bf13baf-850b-5a0a-8a70-f7d448cac369.html |archive-date=December 10, 2018}}

{{quote|Look, I made a deal with Magnum, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm proud that I lived up to my contract, and some people said, "You've got to get into a car and drive into a brick wall and get injured and get out of Magnum and do [Raiders]." I said, "I gotta look my mom and dad in the eye, and we don't do that," so I did Magnum... That's not so bad, is it?|Tom Selleck • Build Series Interview{{citation |last=BUILD Series |title=Tom Selleck Shares How He Auditioned For "Indiana Jones" |date=September 29, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rberm2PE4jk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/rberm2PE4jk |archive-date=December 12, 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=December 9, 2018}}{{cbignore}}}}

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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 SEAL officer who had served in the Vietnam War; after the war, Magnum had been in the "Naval Intelligence Agency" (a fictional version of the Office of Naval Intelligence) and then resigned from the Navy to become a private investigator living in Hawaii. The show continued until 1988, lasting 8 seasons and 163 episodes, winning him an Emmy Award{{cite web |title=Tom Selleck Emmy Award Winner |url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/tom-selleck |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=December 27, 2013}} for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1984.

Selleck was famous for his mustache,{{Cite magazine |date=2014-11-04 |title=The 17 Most Influential Mustaches of All Time |url=https://time.com/3555372/movember-mustache-month-testicular-cancer/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}{{cite web |date=2023-10-13 |title=Tom Selleck ditches signature mustache for scruffier facial hair |url=https://pagesix.com/2023/10/13/tom-selleck-ditches-signature-mustache-for-scruffier-facial-hair/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |language=en-US}} a Hawaiian-style aloha shirt and a Detroit Tigers baseball cap.

Magnum drove a Ferrari 308 GTS in the series.

After the end of the show in 1988, it established itself as the top-rated one-hour show in the history of syndicated reruns (at least until 1998).{{cite web |last=Duffy |first=Mike |title=Tom Selleck just does what feels right |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-02-21-9802210041-story.html |website=Chicagotribune.com |date=February 21, 1998}}

In 1984, he introduced Nancy Reagan at the 1984 Republican National Convention.

Selleck was offered the lead role of Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch but he turned it down because he did not want to be seen as a sex symbol. The role eventually went to David Hasselhoff.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/611532/tom-selleck-facts|title=8 Facts About Tom Selleck|date=January 29, 2020}}

During the Magnum years, he also starred as an acrophobic police detective in Runaway and a stand-in father in Three Men and a Baby, which was the biggest hit at the American box office in 1987. In 1989, he ended the decade by starring in the romantic comedy Her Alibi and crime drama An Innocent Man.

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In 1990, he starred as an American 19th-century sharpshooter in the Australian Western Quigley Down Under, a role and film that he considers one of his best. During the 1990s, he also starred in Three Men and a Little Lady, Folks!, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Mr. Baseball, In & Out and The Love Letter. Selleck's role in In & Out is his first as a gay character (Peter Malloy).{{cite web |last=Longsdorf |first=Amy |title=Kiss & tell Tom Selleck goes straight to the truth discussing role as gay in In & Out |url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1997-09-14-3155405-story.html |website=Mcall.com |date=September 14, 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215224234/https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1997-09-14-3155405-story.html |archive-date=December 15, 2019 |url-status=live}}

In the mid-1990s, Selleck played the role of Richard Burke, Monica Geller's older boyfriend, beginning at the end of the second season of the TV series Friends. Richard was a divorced ophthalmologist who was a friend of Monica's parents. 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 more appearances in later episodes. His decision to star in a six-episode plot of Friends was seen as a digression from the movies back to TV shows and a mistake by his career advisers. Selleck recruited a new agent and accepted the part. This role earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 2000 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/cast/62421/|title=Biography|website=Cbs.com}}

He 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."

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.

In February 1998, he accepted the lead role in a sitcom for CBS called The Closer. This role was his big comeback on prime-time TV. 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 Selleck's first series since Magnum, P.I., low ratings caused the show to be canceled after ten episodes.

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. In 2001, Selleck played the lead role of Murray in a Broadway revival of Herb Gardner's comedic play A Thousand Clowns. The production toured for four months, playing in North Carolina, Chicago and Boston before opening on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. Critics, though far from uniformly negative about Selleck's performance, generally compared it unfavorably to that of Jason Robards, who won awards in the 1960s for playing the character on the stage and in a movie version. The production closed as a result of the attacks on 9/11.

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 played the role of Mr. Kornfeldt in the movie Killers in 2010.

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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.{{cite web |title=Emmy and Golden Globe Award Winner Tom Selleck Stars in "Jesse Stone: Benefit Of The Doubt," a New Television Movie To Be Broadcast Sunday, May 20 |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2012/01/26/emmy-and-golden-globe-award-winner-tom-selleck-stars-in-jesse-stone-benefit-of-the-doubt-a-new-television-movie-to-be-broadcast-sunday-may-20-082404/20120126cbs03/ |website=The Futon Critic.com |access-date=January 26, 2012}} In addition to his portrayal of the films' protagonist, Selleck now acts as producer for the series. The fifth film, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, was not adapted from Parker's novels, but was instead an original story by Selleck.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/television/27ston.html |work=The New York Times |title=Sometimes, the Crime Finds the Cop |first=Neil |last=Genzlinger |date=February 27, 2009}}

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 in a drama show since he played Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I. As of December 30, 2007, he began doing commercial voice-overs for Florida's Natural orange juice.Bouffard, Kevin, [http://www.theledger.com/article/20071220/NEWS/712200427/1048/YOURTOWN "Citrus ads to feature Selleck's narration: Florida agency approves a new slate of TV commercials"], The Ledger, December 20, 2007.

Since 2010, he has starred as Frank Reagan in the CBS American police procedural/drama series Blue Bloods, filmed on location in New York City. Frank Reagan is the Police Commissioner, and the series follows the Reagan family of law enforcement officers with the New York City Police Department and the Manhattan district attorney's office. The show premiered on September 24, 2010, and is in its final season as of 2024.

In 2012, Selleck was featured in Coldwell Banker's television ad campaign focusing on homeownership.{{cite web |url=http://www.inman.com/news/2012/03/8/new-coldwell-banker-tv-ad-campaign-features-voice-tom-selleck |title=New Coldwell Banker TV ad campaign features voice of Tom Selleck |website=Inman News |date=March 8, 2012}} Starting in 2016 he has been the pitchman for reverse-mortgage lender American Advisors Group (AAG).{{cite web |url=https://www.americanadvisorsgroup.com/news/new-reverse-mortgage-commercial-tom-selleck, |title=AAG Debuts New Reverse Mortgage Commercial Featuring Actor Tom Selleck |date=August 1, 2016 }}

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).

In 2021, Selleck made his album debut singing "Yessir, That's My Baby" with Nicolas King (recorded live in 2001 during their run of A Thousand Clowns) on King's album Act One released by Club44 Records.

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From 1971 to 1982, Selleck was married to model Jacqueline Ray.{{Cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/09/03/Television-star-Tom-Selleck-was-quietly-married-at-this/3754557640000/ |title=Television star Tom Selleck was quietly married at this... |date=September 3, 1987 |website=United Press International |location=Incline Village, Nevada}} During that time, he adopted her son, Kevin Shepard (born 1966), who would go on to be the drummer for the American rock band Tonic. On August 7, 1987, Selleck married Jillie Joan Mack (born 1957), whom he met in Britain.{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Guy |date=2024-05-04 |title=Tom Selleck interview: ‘There’s more to me than the moustache’ |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/05/04/tom-selleck-interview-moustache-magnum-pi-blue-bloods/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}} They have one daughter, Hannah[http://tomselleck.tv-website.com/ Biography] Tom Selleck (Thomas Magnum – Magnum P.I.) (born December 16, 1988).{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8240365.stm |work=BBC News |title=Selleck wins lame horse dispute |date=September 6, 2009 |access-date=May 25, 2010}}

Selleck has said he is Episcopalian, and got instruction from Blue Bloods co-star Bridget Moynahan on how to properly cross himself when playing his Catholic character Frank Reagan.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_MVQtjzNEg |title=Blue Bloods {{!}} Tom Selleck & Kevin Wade {{!}} Talks at Google |date=2017-02-07 |last=Talks at Google |access-date=2024-12-01 |via=YouTube}}

Selleck and his family live near Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village, California, on a {{convert|60|acre|adj=on}} avocado ranch in Hidden Valley formerly owned by Dean Martin.{{cite news |url=http://www.larkinhorses.com/About/newsstories.html#hazel |title=Young Selleck blazes own trail |newspaper=Calgary Herald |first=Lauren |last=MacGillivray |date=June 28, 2003 |via=larkinhorses.com}} In a 2012 interview with People, Selleck talked about living and working on his ranch: "So I like to get outside and work on the ranch, 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."

He has said that he doesn't personally use text messages or e-mail.{{Cite web |title=Tom Selleck Reveals He Has ‘Never Sent a Text’ and Doesn’t Email: ‘I Have a Hard Time Writing Things Down’ (Exclusive) |url=https://people.com/tom-selleck-has-never-sent-a-text-doesnt-email-exclusive-8635001 |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=People.com |language=en}}

Selleck is 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."Volleyball USA (Summer 2011), vol 39, no 2 {{OCLC|31165992}}

Selleck is an avid ice hockey fan and has been seen attending Los Angeles Kings games at Staples Center. He lists Anže Kopitar and Alexander Frolov as two of his favorite players. He was once a minority owner of the Detroit Tigers, his favorite baseball team since childhood. In 1986, Selleck hit a batting practice home run while working out with the Tigers. In preparation for his role in the film Mr. Baseball, Selleck reached out to the Tigers to practice with them during the spring of 1991. He took batting practice for three weeks, even making an appearance in an exhibition game against Cincinnati, where Tiger manager Sparky Anderson put him into a game as a pinch-hitter. He managed to foul off 3 pitches from Reds pitcher Tim Layana before striking out.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/mr-baseball-tom-selleck-in-tigers-spring-training |title=When Hollywood's 'Mr. Baseball' actually played for the Tigers |website=MLB.com}} Selleck believes his training helped him considerably in his film role, having gained valuable experience from attending team meetings and developing an understanding of how competitive players function together.{{Cite web |last=Scott |first=Vernon |date=May 26, 1992 |title=Actor Tom Selleck's Dream Comes True |url=https://www.deseret.com/1992/5/26/18986839/actor-tom-selleck-s-dream-comes-true |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204235221/https://www.deseret.com/1992/5/26/18986839/actor-tom-selleck-s-dream-comes-true |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |issn=0745-4724 |access-date=October 16, 2020 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}

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 support 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=745 |title=Tom Selleck Joins Memorial Fund as the National Spokesman for the Education Center at the Wall |publisher=Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund |date=January 28, 2009 |access-date=October 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824174604/http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=745 |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |url-status=dead}}

Upon James Garner's death in 2014, he said, "Jim was a mentor to me and a friend, and I will miss him."{{cite web |url=http://www.toledoblade.com/TV-Radio/2012/05/11/Tom-Selleck-2-kinds-of-lawmen.html |title=Tom Selleck: 2 kinds of lawmen |publisher=ToledoBlade.com |date=May 11, 2012 |access-date=October 23, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://people.com/celebrity/james-garner-looked-back-on-his-career-in-people-interview |title=James Garner: In His Own Words on The Notebook, Maverick and More |publisher=People.com |date=July 21, 2014 |access-date=October 23, 2017}} Two years after Garner's death, Selleck said, prior to filming his then 6th season of Blue Bloods: "It's kind of like my mentor, who never wanted to hear he was my mentor [James Garner], I don't accept the mentor role. That they feel that way is, I think flattering although it adds a certain amount of pressure."{{cite web |url=http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/10/27/ukee-at-blue-bloods |title=Behind The Scenes at Blue Bloods With Television Icon Tom Selleck |publisher=Philadelphia.CBSLocal.com |date=October 27, 2016 |access-date=October 23, 2017}}

Selleck was sued by the Calleguas Municipal Water District for allegedly improperly transferring approximately 1.4 million gallons of water from the Calleguas Municipal Water District to the Hidden Valley Municipal Water District during the driest California drought since record-keeping began, which he used to water his avocado farm. He settled the suit by paying $21,685.55 to the Calleguas Municipal Water District, an amount which represented the district's private investigator fees in connection with the case.{{Cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tom-selleck-water-complaint-20150707-story.html |title=Did 'Magnum P.I.' star Tom Selleck steal truckloads of hydrant water? A real P.I. was on case |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url-access=subscription |date=July 8, 2015 |last1=Covarrubias |first1=Amanda |last2=Hamilton |first2=Matt |last3=Parvini |first3=Sarah |access-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103170354/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tom-selleck-water-complaint-20150707-story.html |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/16/california-water-tom-selleck-lawsuit |title=California district to settle water stealing suit with Tom Selleck for $21,000 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=July 16, 2015 |access-date=August 20, 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/no-crime-found-after-suit-accuses-tom-selleck-stealing-water-n388866 |title=Lawsuit Accuses Tom Selleck of Stealing Water, but Cops Come Up Dry |last1=Johnson |first1=Alex |last2=Blankstein |first2=Andrew |date=July 8, 2015 |access-date=August 20, 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/water-tom-selleck-accused-stealing-808392 |title=Water Tom Selleck Accused of Stealing Was Paid For, Official Says |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |agency=Associated Press |date=July 13, 2015 |access-date=August 20, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ventura.lafco.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Rpt_Special-District-Directory-Services.pdf |title=Ventura County Special Districts |website=Ventura Local Agency Formation Commission |access-date=August 20, 2018}}{{cite news |title=California district to settle water stealing suit with Tom Selleck for $21,000 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/16/california-water-tom-selleck-lawsuit |access-date=August 8, 2020 |publisher=The Guardian Newspaper |date=July 16, 2015}}{{cite news |title=Tom Selleck Settlement Accepted in California Water Fight |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/tom-selleck-settlement-accepted-california-water-dispute-n392896 |access-date=November 12, 2020 |work=NBC News |date=July 16, 2015}}{{cite news |title=Tom Selleck Settles Lawsuit Accusing Him Of Stealing Water For SoCal Ranch |url=https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/07/16/tom-selleck-settles-lawsuit-accusing-him-of-stealing-water-for-socal-ranch/ |access-date=November 12, 2020 |publisher=CBS|date=July 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721021227/https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/07/16/tom-selleck-settles-lawsuit-accusing-him-of-stealing-water-for-socal-ranch/ |archive-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=live}}

File:Kay Bailey Hutchison attends the NRA Annual Convention in Houston.jpg, Selleck, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Senator Zell Miller at the 2005 NRA Annual Convention in Houston.]]

Selleck has been a member of the board of directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and served as a spokesman for the organization.{{cite news |url=http://www.womenhunters.com/press-release-nra-selleck.html |title=Tom Selleck Donates Seven Guns To NRA National Firearms Museum |date=February 23, 2007 |author=National Rifle Association of America |website=Women Hunters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921123349/http://www.womenhunters.com/press-release-nra-selleck.html |archive-date=September 21, 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |date=January 8, 2016 |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35261394 |title=US gun control: What is the NRA and why is it so powerful? It is one of the most powerful players in one of the most hotly-debated issues in the US - gun control - but what exactly is the NRA? Here's a quick guide. |access-date=June 14, 2016 |quote=...Current members include former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and actors Tom Selleck and Whoopi Goldberg. ... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108235230/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35261394 |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |url-status=usurped}} He resigned from the board on September 18, 2018, though he remained a member of the organization.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2018/09/tom-selleck-resigns-nra-board-1202468082/ |title=Tom Selleck Stepping Down From NRA Board |first=Patrick |last=Hipes |date=September 20, 2018 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood}} After his close friend Charlton Heston stepped down from his role as an NRA spokesman in 2003, Selleck succeeded him.{{cite news |author=Sherrod, Blackie |title=Is it all politics or show biz? |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |date=October 31, 2002}}{{cite news |author=Schodolski, Vincent J. |title=Sean Penn is no Jane Fonda – In Iraq, he kept mouth wide shut |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=January 5, 2003}} 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),{{cite news |author=Sharp, Eric |title=Shooting Star – Antique Black-Powder Rifle Still Scene-Stealer |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |date=June 18, 2006}} along with six other firearms from his other films, to the NRA. The firearms are part of the NRA's exhibit "Real Guns of Reel Heroes" at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

To promote his film The Love Letter, Selleck was invited to be on The Rosie O'Donnell Show on May 19, 1999. During the appearance, O'Donnell questioned Selleck about his support of gun ownership and an ad in which he appeared supporting the NRA. At the end of the interview, Selleck stated, "It's your show and you can talk about it after I leave."{{cite web |title=Rosie O'Donnell Calls It Quits with KMart |date=November 25, 1999 |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1999-11-25-9911250029-story.html |publisher=South Florida Sentinel}}{{cite web |title=O'Donnell, NRA conflict over Kmart ads |date=August 20, 1999 |url=https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/o-donnell-nra-conflict-over-kmart-ads-1117750581/ |publisher=Variety}} Selleck later confided to Shaun Robinson: "I still like Rosie. I think she needs to take a deep breath and stop thinking everybody who disagrees with her is evil."{{Cite web|url=http://www.today.com/popculture/tom-selleck-looks-back-rosie-feud-wbna20396219|title=Tom Selleck looks back on 'Rosie' feud|website=TODAY.com|date=August 22, 2007 }} In 2000, Selleck stated he has always been interested in politics as he finds it "fascinating".https://www.deseret.com/2000/8/9/19522603/selleck-gets-political/

For a number of years, Selleck appeared in television advertising for National Review. He also subscribes to The New Republic.{{cite news |author=Lacher, Irene |title=Right Revival in Hollywood |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |date=October 9, 1994}} Selleck describes himself as "a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings".{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/210854/ike-john-j-miller |title=Like Ike |website=National Review |date=May 29, 2004}}

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.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/entertainment/tom-selleck-write-in-vote-dallas-police-chief/index.html |title=Tom Selleck wrote in former Dallas police chief for president |first=Sandra |last=Gonzalez |website=CNN |date=November 10, 2016 |access-date=May 29, 2017}}

Blue Bloods co-star Abigail Hawk said Selleck often keeps his opinions to himself, but tries to form his views by reading news sources from across the opinion spectrum and likes to focus on the facts of a situation.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-11 |title='Blue Bloods' Star Abigail Hawk Reveals the Incredible Way Tom Selleck "Changed My Life" |url=https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a62529220/blue-bloods-abigail-hawk-interview/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=Country Living |language=en-US}} "He always took the most left-wing news source, and then a right-wing news source, and read them both, researched the entire spectrum, and then made his decision based on all of that information," Hawk said.{{Cite web |last=Barilla |first=Lucille |date=2024-12-25 |title=Blue Bloods' Abigail Hawk on What She Learned From Tom Selleck |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/blue-bloods-abigail-hawk-on-what-she-learned-from-tom-selleck/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Closer Weekly |language=en-US}}

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On April 28, 2000, Selleck 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.{{cite web |url=http://charactercounts.org |title=Character Education Program: Character Counts! – Lesson Plans, Training, Resources |publisher=Character Counts! |access-date=August 10, 2010}} He received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986. The star is situated at 6925 Hollywood Blvd.[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=6925+Hollywood+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+Los+Angeles,+California+90028,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.200922,58.710937&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=0,34.101780,-118.340969&t=h&ll=34.101737,-118.340456&spn=0.000948,0.001727&z=19&iwloc=A 6925 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90028, United States] – Google Maps In 1989, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.{{cite web |title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}{{cite web |last=Nix |first=Shan |date=June 26, 1989 |title=Looking Up to the Stars: Where 50 top celebs dazzle 400 students |url=https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/San-Francisco-Chronicle-June-26-1989.pdf |work=San Francisco Chronicle}}{{cite web |last=Morrison |first=Jane Ann |date=June 28, 1992 |title=Bright students, stars shine together |url=https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Las-Vegas-Review-Journal-June-28-1992.pdf |work=Las Vegas Review Journal}}{{cite web |date=1995 |title=Gen. Chuck Yeager Biography Photo |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/general-chuck-yeager/ |quote=Academy members, actor Tom Selleck and General Chuck Yeager, at an Academy of Achievement outing during the 1995 Achievement Summit held in Colonial Williamsburg.}}

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