Work It Wednesday! Tom Selleck Acts and Farms into Retirement!
Work It Wednesday!
Adia In-Home Care has a number of clients who continue to work while enjoying semi-retirement. For Work It Wednesday! we will be highlighting seniors who keep busy with work well into their 70s, 80s, and yes, even 90s, proving that age really is just a number.
Tom Selleck, 67
Tom Selleck is an actor and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as the private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980s). He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B. Parker novels.
Selleck has acted a good deal in TV roles such as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and A.J. Cooper on Las Vegas. In addition to his series work, Selleck has appeared in more than 50 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 1987.
Selleck received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986. In 2000, he received an honorary doctorate from Pepperdine University (he holds a bachelor's degree from University of Southern California). He is a board member of the non-profit Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics and co-founder of the Character Counts Coalition.
Since 2010 he has appeared as the NYPD Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS-TV. He is also in discussions to star in the upcoming movie Three Men and A Bride. When not filming Blue Bloods in New York City, Selleck reside on a 63-acre avocado farm in Freedom, California with his wife of 25 years.
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