Tom Selleck's Co-Stars Trivia Quiz

Answer: An Innocent Man

F. Murray Abraham made his screen debut in 1971, and had appeared in supporting roles in a number of prominent films before, in 1984, he won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for his performance as Antonio Salieri in the film "Amadeus". Following his subsequent appearance in "The Name of the Rose" in 1986, Abraham scaled back his film roles, as he sought fewer appearances as villains.

However, in 1989 he accepted the part of Virgil Caine in "An Innocent Man", alongside Tom Selleck in the lead role.

In the film, Selleck plays Jimmie, an ordinary man framed by corrupt police and sentenced to a long prison term. Upon his arrival inside, Jimmie is menaced by a fellow inmate, and so is advised by the respected prisoner Virgil Caine to "deal with the problem". Virgil acts as a mentor to Jimmie during his time in prison, and is able to help Jimmie gain revenge on the cops that framed him, following Jimmie's release.

Although "An Innocent Man" was not especially well received, Abraham's performance garnered praise. Since 1989, Abraham has maintained a well-regarded career, which included gaining two Emmy nominations for his recurring role in the TV series "Homeland".

Answer: Three Men and a Baby

Philip Bosco's professional career began with a Tony nomination for his 1960 Broadway debut, "The Rape of the Belt". During the 1960s he combined a burgeoning stage career with appearances in various television shows before his film debut in 1968's "A Lovely Way To Die", which starred Kirk Douglas.

By the 1980s, Bosco began to become a respected character actor, with supporting roles in a number of popular films by the time he was cast as Sergeant Melkowitz in "Three Men and a Baby". In the film, Bosco's character, a narcotics detective, is suspicious of the eponymous three men, played by Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson, that they may be involved in drug dealing, after which the three are forced to find a way to prove their innocence, at the same time dealing with the equally eponymous baby that has landed on their doorstep.

The film proved to be a runaway success, grossing almost $250m at the box office. Following his appearance in "Three Men and a Baby", Bosco maintained his success as a character actor on screen, as well as a career on the stage eventually earning a total of six Tony and four Drama Desk Award nominations, winning one of each for his performance in "Lend Me A Tenor" in 1989. Bosco passed away in December 2018.

Answer: Three Men and a Little Lady

Christopher Cazenove's career began in 1970, with his breakout role coming two years later when he was cast in the lead role of Lt Richard Gaunt in the BBC drama series "The Regiment". Following this, he obtained a number of roles as upper class characters in period pieces on both film and television during the 1970s, with perhaps his most famous in "The Duchess of Duke Street".

While during the 1980s he appeared in fewer period pieces, his casting to type as aristocrats continued, often mixed with roles that saw him portray nefarious bounders.

It was as this type that he was cast in "Three Men and a Little Lady", the sequel to "Three Men and a Baby", in which he played Edward Hargreave, who plans to marry the mother of the eponymous little lady, before packing the girl off to boarding school, which the three men of the title, played by Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson, rush to prevent. Cazenove continued his successful career after the relative disappointment of "Three Men and a Little Lady", with many roles both in film and on television in the UK, until his death in 2010.

Answer: Her Alibi

William Daniels made his professional debut as part of his family's singing group in Brooklyn during his childhood, which led to appearances both on television and on Broadway in 1943 at the age of 16. His first national television appearance came when he played the young John Quincy Adams in the one-off drama "A Woman for the Ages" in 1952. Daniels appeared several times on stage and screen as both John Quincy Adams and his father, John Adams, over the next three decades in amongst other significant roles, until, in 1982, he began the regular roles for which he is probably most famous - as Dr Mark Craig in "St Elsewhere", for which he won two Emmys, and concurrently as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider".

It was following the end of "St Elsewhere" that Daniels was cast as Sam, the publisher of mystery novelist Philip Blackwood, played by Tom Selleck, in "Her Alibi".

In the film, Blackwood, who is suffering from writer's block, provides a fake alibi to a beautiful murder suspect from Romania, played by Paulina Porizkova. Philip, helped along the way by his publisher, and under the eyes of both the police and the Romanian Securitate, attempts to learn more about the mysterious woman now under his roof, at the same time using the situation to form his new book.

Although "Her Alibi" was not well received, Daniels continued his career, going on to another role in a long running TV show, this time as teacher George Feeny in the sitcom "Boy Meets World", which ran from 1993 to 2000. Since then, Daniels' career has continued with guest appearances, both voice and in person, in a number of major TV series including "Grey's Anatomy", "Scrubs", "The Simpsons" and "Boston Legal".

Answer: Mr Baseball

After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Art, Dennis Haysbert made his professional debut in an episode of the CBS drama series "The White Shadow" in 1978. Following this, he made guest appearances in a number of other popular television shows of the period, including "Laverne & Shirley", "The A-Team", "Dallas", "Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century" and "Magnum, PI".

In 1989, Haysbert was cast in his first major film role, playing Cuban baseball player Pedro Cerrano in "Major League" opposite Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen and Tom Berenger, a role he reprised in two sequels.

He appeared with Sheen again in the 1990 film "Navy SEALs", before returning to baseball in 1992's "Mr Baseball" with Tom Selleck. In this film, Haysbert plays Max "Hammer" Dubois, who is the sole American playing for the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese professional baseball team until the arrival of fading former star Jack Elliott, played by Selleck. Elliott, having just been traded from the New York Yankees, is condescending of his new surroundings, as well as arrogant about his own abilities, despite Max's efforts to get him to be a team player. Eventually, thanks to the efforts of both Max, and their team manager, Uchiyama, Jack is able to resurrect his game and help the Dragons to the league pennant. "Mr Baseball" had a lukewarm reception on its release, and fared poorly at the box office, even in markets where baseball was popular.

Despite this, Dennis Haysbert's career continued to rise, until he was eventually cast in perhaps his most famous role, that of presidential candidate David Palmer in "24" in 2001.

Answer: Lassiter

Bob Hoskins started out life as an actor almost by accident - although he had been professional for a year, in 1969, whilst waiting in a bar for his friend, the actor Robert Frost, Hoskins was handed a script and ushered in to an audition for a part that he won.

This led to his beginning a significant stage career during the 1970s, with roles in productions of "Pygmalion", "The Iceman Cometh" and "The Duchess of Malfi" among others. His first major screen role was in "On the Move", an educational series produced by the BBC, aimed at improving adult literacy.

This subsequently led to his big break as Arthur Parker in the six-part serial "Pennies from Heaven" in 1978. Hoskins had done a few films up to that point, but his first major role on the big screen came in 1980, when he played gangster Harold Shand in "The Long Good Friday", for which he was nominated for a BAFTA. By 1984, Hoskins was building a significant profile as a character actor when he was cast in "Lassister" opposite Tom Selleck. "Lassiter" had been written specifically as a vehicle for Selleck to take advantage of the popularity of his TV show, "Magnum, PI".

In it, Selleck plays "gentleman thief" Nick Lassiter, who, while in London on the eve of the Second World War, is arrested by Hoskins' character, Inspector Becker. Becker makes a proposition to Lassiter - he can either go to prison, or steal a cache of diamonds from the German Embassy that would otherwise be used to finance the upcoming German war effort. The film gained mixed reviews, and was a commercial failure, but Hoskins' career was not affected as, two years later, he appeared in the British film "Mona Lisa", for which he won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Academy Award. Two years after that came possibly his most famous role as PI Eddie Valiant in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". He continued appearing in a number of high profile film roles until 2012, when he announced he was retiring following a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease. He died in April 2014.

Answer: In & Out

Having attended the Julliard School, in 1972 Kevin Kline, together with a number of his former classmates, formed their own theatre company, called the City Center Acting Company, which toured the US performing Shakespearean and other classical works. Kline remained with the company until 1976, when he was cast in the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow".

When this ended, he returned to the stage, and built a significant reputation, which included winning two Tony Awards for his roles in "On The Twentieth Century" in 1978 and "The Pirates of Penzance" in 1981.

His film debut was in 1982's "Sophie's Choice", for which he was nominated for both a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. During the 1980s and 1990s, Kline became a regular collaborator of director Lawrence Kasdan, appearing in a number of Kasdan's films, as well as appearing as journalist Donald Woods in the critically acclaimed "Cry Freedom", directed by Richard Attenborough.

In 1989, his role in "A Fish Called Wanda" saw him win an Academy Award, while in the 1990s, he had a number of film roles, both as the lead and as a supporting player. One of the former was 1997's "In & Out", in which he stars as a small town English teacher, Howard Brackett, who is accidentally outed by one of his former students during an Oscar acceptance speech.

This leads to great consternation, not least on Howard's part, as he isn't actually gay. However, entertainment reporter Peter Molloy, played by Tom Selleck, is unconvinced of this, believing Howard to be gay, but unwilling to face and accept the idea. "In & Out" was both a critical and commercial success, and was noteworthy for featuring a kiss between Kline and Selleck lasting 12 seconds, in a period when same-sex kissing, especially between men, was rare in a mainstream film. Kline's career continued on its successful path, and he won a third Tony in 2017, as well as receiving multiple nominations for Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.

Answer: Quigley Down Under

Alan Rickman initially went to art school, and began his working life as a graphic designer before joining the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1974. Until the early 1980s he worked exclusively on the stage, both in repertory theatre, and as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), before making his screen breakthrough in a BBC production of "The Barchester Chronicles" in 1982.

He continued his work on the stage during the 1980s, earning Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his performance in the RSC production of "Les Liasions Dangereuses" in 1987.

The following year, Rickman made his feature film debut as Hans Gruber, the villain in the action film "Die Hard". Three years later he portrayed the Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves".

In between these two, he appeared opposite Tom Selleck in "Quigley Down Under", playing Elliot Marston, a villainous sheep rancher in Australia during the 19th century. Marston initially hires sharpshooter Matthew Quigley, portrayed by Selleck, to eliminate all of the indigenous Australians from his land. Quigley refuses the job when it is put to him, putting him at odds with his erstwhile employer, and leads to Quigley siding with the people he was hired to remove. "Quigley Down Under" received mixed reviews and was not a box office success, only managing to recoup its budget.

However, it did little to affect Rickman's career, as he built up a list of varied roles, encompassing villains, romantic leads and comedy performances. One of his most notable came in 2001, when he was cast as Professor Snape in the first of eight films in the "Harry Potter" series, at the same time continuing his stage career with equal success. Rickman eventually received multiple nominations for Tony, Emmy, BAFTA, Drama Desk and Golden Globe Awards by the time of his death in January 2016.

Answer: Runaway

Gene Simmons was born as Chaim Witz in Haifa in 1949, where he lived until the age of eight, when he emigrated to the United States with his mother, where his name was changed to Gene Klein. In the early 1970s, having adopted the stage name Gene Simmons, he formed a band called Wicked Lester with Stanley Eisen, who used the stage name Paul Stanley.

After one album, the pair left, looking to form what they described as the "ultimate rock band". Teaming up with drummer Peter Criss, the trio adopted the name Kiss. Joined by guitarist Paul Frehley, the group released their self-titled debut album in February 1974. Over the years that followed, Kiss's line-up has changed repeatedly, with Simmons and Stanley as the only ever-presents.

In 1978, Kiss appeared in "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park", a TV movie made at the height of the band's 1970s popularity.

The band made other screen appearances during the early 1980s, when, in 1984, Simmons made his acting debut in "Runaway", a futuristic thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton and starring Tom Selleck. Simmons was cast as the film's antagonist, Dr Charles Luther, a sociopathic engineer who has developed various weapons that he is seeking to sell on the black market, with Sergeant Jack Ramsay, played by Selleck, leading the effort to stop him. "Runaway" was produced with a significant budget, and was seen as being one of the big movie releases of 1984.

However, it was overshadowed by a number of other sci-fi films released that year, and was a box-office failure. Simmons subsequently made a handful of other appearances in acting roles, but has seen the majority of his appearances either on film or television as himself.

Answer: High Road to China

Jack Weston was born in Cleveland in 1924. Following his service in World War II, he moved to New York, where he was able to get a job with the United Service Organizations (USO) touring US military installations in the Far East. He made his professional debut in 1949, and subsequently built a successful career as a character actor in various supporting roles on film and television over the next 25 years.

While he mostly appeared in comedic parts, he occasionally took on more serious roles, including in 1967's "Wait Until Dark" as a stalker attempting to terrorize a blind woman played by Audrey Hepburn.

In 1976, Weston was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in "The Ritz", which he reprised from the original Broadway stage production. In 1983, he was cast in the adventure film "High Road to China", playing 'Struts', the sidekick of ace pilot Patrick O'Malley, played by Tom Selleck.

The film sees O'Malley and 'Struts' hired by society heiress Evie Tozer to find her father before he is officially declared dead and her fortune goes to her father's unscrupulous business partner.

The film was produced as one of a number at the time as an 'imitator' of the recently released "Raiders of the Lost Ark", for which Selleck had been the original choice to play Indiana Jones. The film was a moderate commercial success, while Weston continued his career through the 1980s, most notably as Max Kellerman, owner of the Kellerman's resort in 1987's "Dirty Dancing". Weston died in May 1996.