Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford in the lead role from the start, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in American Graffiti and Star Wars, but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.

Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

In 1984, Seymour appeared nude in the film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Selleck, but the film was a box office flop.

Selleck was originally offered the role, but he was unavailable for the part because of his commitment to the television series Magnum, P. I.

Gold Selleck Silliman, whose home still stands on Jennings Road, was put in charge of the coastal defenses.

Quigley Down Under was in development as early as 1974, with McQueen in consideration for the lead, but by the time production began in 1980, McQueen was too ill and the project was scrapped until a decade later, when Tom Selleck starred.

The film became one of mainstream Hollywood's few attempts at a comedic " gay movie " of its era, and was widely noted at the time for a 10-second kiss between Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck.

The restaurant scene between Selleck and Dillon, as well as the resulting outdoor scene with Cusack, was filmed at the Homestead Rest in Sparta Township, New Jersey.

The restaurant scene between Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck was filmed at The Shipwreck Diner in Northport, New York.

Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Robert Dean Selleck ( died 2001 ), an executive and real estate investor, and Martha S. ( née Jagger ), a homemaker.

Selleck served as a soldier in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard and his unit was activated for the Watts Riots in Los Angeles.

In the early 1990s, Selleck held a press conference to say that he was not gay after a Queer Nation poster allegedly tried to out him.

He also sued a tabloid for printing a story that he was gay, a suit which later was settled with an apology and a financial sum that Selleck donated to the University of Southern California journalism program to promote ethics in media.

Selleck was famous for his mustache, a Hawaiian-style aloha shirt, a Detroit Tigers baseball cap, and the Colt Model 1911A1. 45 ACP Caliber pistol his character carried.

The fifth film, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, was not adapted from Parker's novels, but rather an original story by Selleck.

Selleck was offered the lead role of Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch, but turned down the role because he did not want to be seen as a sex symbol.

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.

On August 7, 1987, Selleck married Jillie Mack.

Since the 1970s, Gary Sweet, Sam J. Jones, Tom Selleck, Mark Harmon, Victor Webster, former Calvin Klein underwear model Antonio Sabato Jr and Type O Negative frontman, Peter Steele have posed for beefcake photographs.

James Rainwood ( Tom Selleck ) is a model citizen.

* Download & play a recording of " Jenny Lind ", a polka from the Library of Congress ' California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection ; performed by John Selleck ( violin ) on October 2, 1939 in Camino, California.

After a 26-year absence from motion pictures, West appeared as Leticia Van Allen in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge ( 1970 ) with Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, and Tom Selleck in a small part.

Selleck graduated from Grant High School, in 1962.

Selleck, an accessible but relatively untested actor, spent years receiving little interest from the entertainment industry.

The following quote is from a Good Housekeeping interview titled " Man of the House: Tom Selleck ", " So I like to get outside and work on the farm, from fixing roads to clearing brush.

In 2002, Selleck donated the rifle he used in Quigley Down Under ( a custom 13-pound, single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch barrel ), along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA's exhibit " Real Guns of Reel Heroes " at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

Other contestants who appeared in their unknown or pre-stardom eras included The Carpenters, Jackson Bostwick, Joanna Cameron, Andy Kaufman ( who went under the name Baji Kimran ), Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Phil Hartman, Jennifer Granholm ( Governor of Michigan from 2003 – 2010 ), Arnold Schwarzenegger ( Governor of California from 2003-2011 ), and Tom Selleck ( who went on the show twice but was not chosen as a " date " either time ).

Others notable films include 1995 box office bomb Fluke, 1996 Whoopi Goldberg's comedy Bogus, political comedy / drama Running Mates with Tom Selleck, 2001 drama film Auggie Rose, 2005 comedy The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and 2007 ensemble cast romantic drama The Jane Austen Book Club adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by Karen Joy Fowler.

In an infamous scene from the twentieth episode of the fifth season of Magnum, P. I., Tom Selleck, as Magnum, is forced to sing the first few lines of the song ( before being mercifully interrupted by gunfire ) in a karaoke bar, in what has become notorious as one of the worst renditions of the song ever committed to film.

Matthew Quigley ( Tom Selleck ) is a cowboy and sharpshooter from America with a keen eye and a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances.

In 2002 Selleck donated the rifle, along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA's exhibit " Real Guns of Reel Heroes " at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

After Poltergeist, she appeared in the final season premiere of CHiPs and the 1982 TV movie The Shadow Riders with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.

He later was featured in Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy released in 1982, and with Tom Selleck in the first season of the TV series Magnum, P. I., in the episode 12 entitled " Thicker Than Blood " as an unnamed Federal Bureau of Investigation agent.

* Gold Selleck Silliman ( 1732 – 1790 ) of the town of Fairfield fought for the Americans during the American Revolutionary War and rose to the rank of Brigadier General by 1776.

In 1993, during the brief run of the late night The Chevy Chase Show on Fox, Selleck guest-starred.

starring Tom Selleck during the season.

starring Tom Selleck, as themselves, during the 1983 season.

In addition, Miss Sikes appeared on the CBS series Magnum, P. I., which starred Tom Selleck, during the 1980s, and in the feature film, Good-bye, Cruel World.

His television roles have included a recurring role in Joss Whedon ’ s Angel as the lawyer Lindsey MacDonald, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced series Close to Home on CBS, the TNT television film Crossfire Trail in which he appeared alongside Tom Selleck, and he played the role of Abe Wheeler in the Steven Spielberg produced miniseries Into the West.

producers would not release the actor for other projects, and, thus, Selleck had to pass on the equally enticing film project for the title role of Indiana Jones, which then went to rising star Harrison Ford.

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, and other things in the universe.

" O ' Donnell was highly criticized ; it was criticism which led her to make an apology to Selleck by saying, " For him feeling embarrassed and humiliated by me, I strongly do apologize to him personally, but I do not apologize for my feelings about the issue of gun control.

On May 19, 1999, a month after the Columbine shootings, which prompted O ' Donnell to become an outspoken supporter of gun control and a major figure in the Million Mom March, O ' Donnell interviewed actor Tom Selleck, who was promoting a film The Love Letter.

Haysbert followed that up with a role in 1990's Navy SEALs, which also starred Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn, before moving on to another baseball movie, Mr. Baseball with Tom Selleck.

Theater Crafts Industry went so far as to say, " In Quigley Down Under, which we did in 1990, the Sharps rifle practically co-stars with Tom Selleck.