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Tom Selleck Television and film actor Tom Selleck, 2024.

Tom Selleck

American actor
Also known as: Thomas William Selleck
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Tom Selleck (born January 29, 1945, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) is an American actor best known for his starring role as the mustachioed, Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum in the adventure-crime television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–88). The show made him a major star and sex symbol, and Selleck went on to pursue a range of film and TV roles. Notably, he appeared on the sitcom Friends in the 1990s and early 2000s and later gained acclaim for...

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