Q: What is the name of the actor who plays Tom Selleck’s father on Blue Bloods? Didn’t he appear as Luther a number of times on Magnum, P.I.?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Online Editor

K. Linebrink, Middletown, Ohio

Len Cariou, 72, stars as dad Henry Reagan to Selleck’s Frank Reagan on the CBS police drama — even though he’s only five years older than Selleck. Cariou is a longtime character actor who has appeared recently in Damages and Brotherhood, and he earned an Emmy nomination for his role as Franklin D. Roosevelt in the HBO movie Into the Storm. It wasn’t Cariou, however, who co-starred with Selleck on Magnum, P.I. in the 1980s — that was Eugene Roche, who played visiting private eye Luther Ellis opposite Selleck’s mustached Thomas Magnum in five episodes. Roche died in 2004.

 

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4 Responses to Q: What is the name of the actor who plays Tom Selleck’s father on Blue Bloods? Didn’t he appear as Luther a number of times on Magnum, P.I.?

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  2. lee says:
    March 11, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    @N. ALDO
    Luther did play on Murder She Wrote as an MI5 agent. You can find the episodes on DVD. I always enjoyed seeing him.

  3. N. ALDO says:
    March 11, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Did Luther B. Gillis also play on “Murder She Wrote” with Angela Lansberey?

  4. Ray Dorst says:
    March 10, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    The name of Magnums’ fellow private eye was Luther B. Gillis ; played by Eugene Roche. Just so you know