So here’s what you do, Roger: Sign up for the show, go over to Hawaii, they’ll treat you good for the 20 days it will take to shoot the, you’ll get a lot of money, and then you come home. Tom Selleck has made about five pilot shows … and none of them has sold. The Los Angeles native was busy making movies at the time and didn’t want a job on a television show, but his agent talked him into at least doing the Magnum pilot.Īs Mosley remembered it, his agent told him: ” ‘It’s starring this guy Tom Selleck.
Selleck thought of Mosley from a prison film they had done together, 1973’s Terminal Island, and suggested him for the part. before the producers realized they needed a person of color in the main cast.
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was a buddy of Selleck’s Thomas Magnum from their days in Vietnam his character owned a helicopter charter company in Oahu called Island Hoppers, which came in handy on the series that aired from December 1980 through May 1988.Īccording to Mosley, Gerald McRaney was all set to play T.C. The likable actor appeared on 158 of the 162 episodes of CBS’ Magnum, P.I., created by Donald Bellisario and Glen A. Mosley also was a standout in blaxploitation films, playing the angry brother of the fresh-out-of-prison Goldie ( Max Julien) in the classic The Mack (1973) and starring in Hit Man (1972), Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973) and Darktown Strutters (1975).Īnd in The Greatest (1977), Mosley - a sturdy 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds in his prime - portrayed Sonny Liston and got whupped by Muhammad Ali. Austin Majors, Child Actor on 'NYPD Blue,' Dies at 27
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