All All. Sign In. Advanced search. Search filters Expand all. Birth date. Enter full date. Page topics. Only includes names with the selected topics. Death date. Gender identity. Male Female Non-binary Other. Adult names. Exclude Include. Tom Selleck. Actor Producer Writer Blue Bloods β Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator "Thomas Magnum" on the s television series, Magnum, P.
He is of mostly English descent, including recent immigrant ancestors. Selleck has appeared extensively on television in roles such as "Dr. Richard Burke" on Friends and "A. Cooper" on Las Vegas In addition to his series work, Selleck has appeared in more than fifty made-for-TV and general release movies, including Mr. Baseball , Quigley Down Under , Lassiter and, his most successful movie release, Three Men and a Baby , which was the highest grossing movie in Parker novels.
John Lithgow. If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. John moved frequently as a child, while his father founded and managed local and college theaters and Shakespeare festivals throughout the Midwest of the United States. Not until he was 16, and his father became head of the McCarter Theater in Princeton New Jersey, did the family settle down. But for John, the theater was still not a career. He won a scholarship to Harvard University, where he finally caught the acting bug as well as found a wife.
Returning from London, his rigorous dramatic training stood him in good stead, and a distinguished career on Broadway gave him one Tony Award for "The Changing Room", a second nomination in for "Requiem For a Heavyweight", and a third in for "M.
But with critical acclaim came personal confusion, and in the mid s, he and his wife divorced. He entered therapy, and in , his life started in a new direction, the movies - he received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp As the decade of the s came around, he found that he was spending too much time on location, and another career move brought him to television in the hugely successful series 3rd Rock from the Sun This production also played a role in bringing him back together with the son from his first marriage, Ian Lithgow , who has a regular role in the series as a dimwitted student.
