Before his hit TV show MAGNUM P.I. made him a household name, Tom Selleck served in the National Guard as a sergeant in the U.S. Army infantry.
Before his time in the Army, Selleck started as a business major at the University of Southern California, then pursued acting at the encouragement of a drama coach. He started doing commercials and made other small TV appearances and was eventually hired by Twentieth Century Fox.
“When I went to Fox, I was on my own with no frame of reference, no connection,” the BLUE BLOODS star recalled. “I’d never done a play in my life. I started at about 35 bucks a week, and every six months, you either got fired or renewed. If you got renewed, you got a raise on their term contracts.”
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