Open Happy Birthday Thread: Tom Selleck

Happy To Share My Birthday with you!!! I miss Magnum P.I.!! Will you do a movie based on the theme ? Happy Birthday Tom!!!!

Tom Selleck is the epitome of class.

A class act

Quigley Down Under is GREAT!!!
Any movie with Alan Rickman as the bad guy is sure to be entertaining!!
bons a ripper mate!

A very nice dependable actor over the years. Certainly, Magnum P.I. was iconic.

Happy birthday….Indiana Jones with balls!!!

Magnum PI is the greatest television show ever.

Here here!

I've always liked Tom Selleck, but I fell in love with him the second Rosie O'Donnell ambushed him for daring to take advantage of his Constitutional rights.

Happy birthday Mr. Selleck. A rare combination of strength, talent and a ton of humor. A monthly column in American Rifleman is long overdue sir!

One of my favorite flicks. Last gunfight is classic.

Daaah … daaaah … Dah! It's Magnum, Thomas Magnum. Cue the red Ferrari, and rustle up Rick, T.C., Higgins, and the lads!

Tom Selleck is a classic example to tenacity as he pursued his quest for stardom after repeated roadblocks. He exemplified the Reagan 80s — big, easy-going, and confident.

And call me crazy, but I loved his films — High Road to China</>, Lassister, and particularly, Quigley Down Under, a much under-rated Aussie western that had the feel of a Joel McCrea or Randolph Scott western from the 1950s.

A fellow conservative, Mr. Selleck worked with the late Barbara Jordan, Democratic congressman from Texas, on the Character Counts Coalition to promote greater civility in public life.

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment...

His is a true Horatio Alger story, which was recognized with his Horatio Alger Award in 200:

http://www.horatioalger.org/members_info.cfm?memb...

Happy birthday, Mr. Selleck, and thanks for the memories!

Runaway was pretty entertaining, and it had Kirstie Alley when she was still pretty hot….

I know a guy that bought a car once owned by John Voight….

Please make a Magnum PI movie!

Second greatest moustache in film! (Sorry mate, Sam Elliot takes top honors)

Ike: Countdown to D-Day.
Mr. Selleck didn't look or sound like Eisenhower, but he channeled Ike's spirit and heart.
And he did it without the stache – now that's an actor!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM SELLECK!! We loved you in the beginning of your career — and WE LOVE YOU NOW!! HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN SOON!!

One of the good guys. Happy Birthday!

They're making a Magnum P.I. movie but he won't be in it. He had this to say on the subject, "I tell you what worries me — because I love 'Magnum' and we have loyal fans — is they take these TV show titles, and they buy them and they spend $100 million on special effects, and then they make fun of them and trivialize it. Then they try and get the actor who used to be in it to do some ridiculous cameo to prove to the audience that it's OK. And I will not do that."

I always enjoy his work. "High Road to China" has long been in my top 10 and I'm a big fan of Selleck's westerns as well.

Tom was my 80's crush that has continued to 2010. What I liked about Magnum so much was that it was played with a sense of humor which is difficult to do with such a gorgeous leading man. But Tom pulled it off like the pro he is. Class always wins out.

Hugs and kisses, Tom. You are a real gent.

Selleck is the man. I love his cowboy roles – Monte Walsh and the Shadow Riders come to mind. He rates right up there with Robert Duvall as an authentic looking cowboy.

NO WAY!!

Happy birthday Mr. Selleck!

Magnum P.I. was one of the best. In addition to its entertainment value it was just plain comforting to watch. It let you feel that no matter what was happening in the "real world" there were people like Magnum (and the whole cast) that would make things right in the end, and do so with honor.

My husband just tracked down a copy of "High Road to China." Now I'll have to watch it in honor of Tom's birthday. He's a classy man who just gets better with age.

Happy Birthday! Thanks for your great example!

Happy Birthday to the actor who brings the spirit of the American Cowboy to all of his roles; whether in 19th century period pieces, on the islands of Hawaii, or a small town in Maine!

Happy Birthday! What more can I say than has already been said? All I can add is that I appreciate many of the roles you play – strong men doing a man's work and soldiering onward. Hollywood is short on such actors.

Just like a fine wine, Mr. Selleck gets better and better with age. Happy Birthday Thomas!!!

I am a Big Fan of almost anything with Alan Rickman in it. He makes bad guys that are FUN.

Yeah Sam Elliot gets the 'stache trophy….

Thomas Sullivan Magnum, they don't make TV heroes like that anymore (well Gibbs comes close). I started watching that awful LAS VEGAS when he joined the cast. A classy stand up guy. What really amazes me is nobody ever mentions that he won an Emmy Award for MAGNUM, PI. And those Jesse Stone movies are good, better than some theatrical releases. Happy Birthday!

Happy B-day big guy.. I can't think of any job you've ever done that I didn't like..

okay, I didn't like that cheesy horror movie you did back in the '70s. And I wasn't overwhelmed by the movie with Paulina Porozkova, but it was mostly her fault, and the writers.

Love Sacketts, the Australian rifle movie, and your current turn as Jesse Stone… and I loved your appearance on Rosie because it exposed her… sorry you hadda go through it..

Years ago in Hawaii, my wife surprisingly found herself within 20 feet of Tom Selleck. Just the two of them. She was sight-seeing and happened to come upon him just as he was entering his location trailer. She fumbled to get her camera out of her purse, dropped it, couldn't get it turned on, etc. He saw this, smiled, and waited patiently for her to get her act together. When she was ready, he smiled warmly for the photo, said goodbye, and retired to his trailer. What a classy thing to do.

Today's actors could learn a lot from how this man comports himself.

Tom Selleck, my favorite actor of all time. Magnum P.I., my favorite show of all time. (The first episode I saw was "Did You See the Sunrise?" and that was all it took.) Happy Birthday! Thanks for all the delight you've given us.

Happy Birthday and Good Health and Happiness to you and yours, Mr. Selleck.
I have fond memories of my 92 year old mother and I watching Magnum P.I.
We were enamored of you. Thanks for the memories!

Happy birthday, Tom. I can honestly say the dorkiest, happiest memory I have is jumping up and down on my bed during the opening of Magnum PI each and every week. Man, how I loved that show. I miss Rick and T.C. — not so much Higgie Baby. You have been such a classy act your entire career and I can't tell you how deeply I appreciate it. Especially your good work and support with the U.S. military. Drinks on me at the King Kamayamaya Club.

Happy Birthday to the man who taught me how to play "Spin the Cat".

http://magnum-mania.com/Audio/Spin_The_Cat.html

A VERY Happy Birthday, Mr. Selleck!
The first time I ever saw you was in a bit part in a pretty unmemorable movie called "COMA". HOWEVER – at one point you were shown in a close-up, and I swear that every woman in that theater sighed audibly because you were (are) just breathtakingly goodlooking. Then we all laughed out loud at how dorky we had just been. One of my best movie memories – thanks!

We had a neighbor that resembled Magnum. We would fight to walk the dog especially when he was out sunbathing! Became an even huger fan after the Rosie incident. Tom and a long-rifle! Wow! Talk about sexy! May God bless you with many more birthdays!

interesting stuff- well done…

I heard somewhere, too, that for some reason the filming of Magnum went on hold while the Indiana Jones crew did some shooting in Hawaii. Go figure.

I had the life-size poster!!!!!!
Thursday nights were awesome!!!

Thanks and happy birthday!

[and he one of those guys who age well... (Cary Grant, Mark Harmon, Sean Connery - that's a heckuva line-up)]

Agreed–Did you see the sunrise? or the Ivan episode, as it's known in our house, is one of the most memorable episodes of any TV show.

His perfect Lance White character on the Rockford Files as the polar opposite of good ol' Jim Rockford was one of the funniest episodes I've ever seen!

Many happy returns of the day! So many good memories of watching Magnum–just introduced our teenagers to it this year. Loved him too as Lance White on the Rockford Files and as Monica's older optometrist boyfriend, Richard, on Friends. The scene with him and Ross in girly bathrobes is hilarious! Scenes like that show what a good sport he is and what a genuine sense of humor he has.

One of Hollywood's few leading men I enjoy watching. I particularly like his position on the Second Amendment.

I hope he got hazardous pay for that one.

Tom Selleck is a class act. Happy Birthday!!