has Tom Selleck ever played a bad guy?

[shortylickens]

What role?

 

[dr150]

Yes.

He's currently playing NYC Police Commissioner on Blue Bloods.

'Nuff said.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Yes.

He's currently playing NYC Police Commissioner on Blue Bloods.

'Nuff said.

Also starring Donnie Wahlberg... he's so dreamy! Who's High Pitch?

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[nutxo]

He was a good guy in that movie.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Lance White. Not exactly a bad guy, more of an annoying douchebag who walks through life stepping in lucky puddles.

 

[Sonikku]

Wasn't he a villain in Grindhouse? (was a double feature I think)

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2014/05/no-more-mr-nice-guy.html

Not everyone, of course, is corruptible. To my knowledge, the following male actors have never played true villains: Tom Selleck, James Garner, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Gary Cooper, Jackie Chan, Steve McQueen, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Charlton Heston, and Clint Eastwood. (I started to put James Stewart in this squeaky-clean list until I remembered After the Thin Man. And here's my disclaimer: Wayne was pseudo-villainlike in the roles of Genghis Khan and the Ringo Kid, and Eastwood came close in both Tightrope and Beguiled.)

BUT, in his most villainous bad-guy role...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/tom-selleck-california-drought

But now the actor has been cast as a villain of Hollywood – for stealing truckloads of water to try and maintain a verdant ranch amid California’s drought.

He allegedly looted water from a public hydrant to irrigate his 60-acre ranch and avocado farm outside Los Angeles. This is a very personal, literal watergate, and it has made Selleck the new face of celebrity drought-shaming, a term of our times for high-profile people who flout state-mandated efforts to curb water consumption.

 

[Craig234]

Yes. Himself, a Republican.

 

[stargazr]

He was a jewel thief in Lassiter. But he was a good guy nevertheless.

 

[BoomerD]

Yes. Himself, a Republican.

Poor Craig...anyone with a different political view...a villain.

The last I knew, Selleck was a registered independent...and a libertarian. He's donated to both (D) and (R) candidates over the years...but <gasp!> he's a member of the NRA!

 

[Craig234]

Poor Craig...anyone with a different political view...a villain.

Not even close. It's not even about 'political views'. Saying that is like saying I oppose the mafia because they have different political views. But I'll not go into it, this isn't the forum.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2014/05/no-more-mr-nice-guy.html



BUT, in his most villainous bad-guy role...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/tom-selleck-california-drought

Paul Newman? Um, Road to Perdition ring a bell?

 

[IronWing]

Cary Grant did play a bad guy. Give me a couple months and I'll remember the movie.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Not everyone, of course, is corruptible. To my knowledge, the following male actors have never played true villains: Tom Selleck, James Garner, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Gary Cooper, Jackie Chan, Steve McQueen, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Charlton Heston, and Clint Eastwood. (I started to put James Stewart in this squeaky-clean list until I remembered After the Thin Man. And here's my disclaimer: Wayne was pseudo-villainlike in the roles of Genghis Khan and the Ringo Kid, and Eastwood came close in both Tightrope and Beguiled.)
BUT, in his most villainous bad-guy role...

Just off the top of my head, Paul Newman and Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition and Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers. And Mel Gibson plays a bad guy in real life.

 

[Fardringle]

No. Because even when he plays the bad guy, he's still the good guy, because he's Tom Selleck.

 

[NesuD]

Thats not a bad guy thats a badass guy

 

[BoomerD]

Hey...it's not MY list...have a problem with it...take it up with the author. I'm just reposting.

No. Because even when he plays the bad guy, he's still the good guy, because he's Tom Selleck.

This.

 

[Pulsar]

Not even close. It's not even about 'political views'. Saying that is like saying I oppose the mafia because they have different political views. But I'll not go into it, this isn't the forum.

It's not about political viewpoints.... but you made sure you said he was a villain and a republican.

Cognitive dissonance much?

 

[Paratus]

What about the movie where he brutally killed Gene Simmons with poisonous exploding robots?

 

[Spacehead]

What about the movie where he brutally killed Gene Simmons with poisonous exploding robots?

Runaway
Gene's character was a homicidal maniac that created the robots in the first place. Tom's character was the cop who was after him. Gene set the spider robots loose to kill Tom but Gene ended up falling into them.

 

[BoomerD]

Runaway
Gene's character was a homicidal maniac that created the robots in the first place. Tom's character was the cop who was after him. Gene set the spider robots loose to kill Tom but Gene ended up falling into them.

And besides...Paratus missed the key point of that. He killed Gene Fucking Simmons! He should have gotten a medal for that!

 

[Paratus]

And besides...Paratus missed the key point of that. He killed Gene Fucking Simmons! He should have gotten a medal for that!

 

[brandonbull]

Mel Gibson was a bad guy in The Expendables 3.