<Li> California Drill Attendance Ribbon </Li> <P> Thomas William Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor and film producer . He is known for starring as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980--1988). Before that, he had a recurring role as Lance White, the favorable and naive partner of Jim Rockford (played by James Garner) on The Rockford Files . He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made - for - TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels . Since 2010, he has also been a primary cast member as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS . </P> <P> Selleck has appeared in more than 50 film and television roles since Magnum, P.I., including Three Men and a Baby, Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter . Selleck also appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and as A.J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas . </P> <P> Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945, to Martha Selleck (née Jagger), a housewife, and Robert Dean Selleck, who was an executive and real estate investor . Selleck is of mostly English ancestry, including recent immigrant ancestors . Tom Selleck's father was of primarily English ancestry but also had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent . Through an entirely paternal line Selleck is a direct descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England in 1633 . Through this line, Tom Selleck is the 11th generation of his family born in North America . Selleck's family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, during his childhood . He has an elder brother named Robert, a younger sister named Martha, and a younger brother named Daniel . Selleck graduated from Grant High School in 1962 . </P>

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