litefoot wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:12 pm
Hi everyone.
I'm trying to compile a list of cast and crew members from Magnum PI who have ever written an autobiography, or had one written about them. This is the list I have compiled so far. Does anyone know of others? With the series having a mammoth 162 episodes, there must be more books I've missed?
Main cast:
Tom Selleck - untitled, 2022. Also Tom Selleck: An Unauthorised Biography, 1983.
Larry Manetti - Aloha Magnum, 1991.
Guest cast:
Season 1
Ron Masak - I've Met All My Heroes from A to Z, 2009. (1.6 Skin Deep)
Terrence McDonnell - Unpublished. 2022? (co-writer 1.7 Never Again...Never Again)
Lew Ayres - Hollywood's Conscientious Objector, 2012. Biography only. (1.11 The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club)
Allan Caillou - The World is Six Feet Square, 1954; Sheba Slept Here, 1973. (1.12 Thicker Than Blood)
Red West - One Hell Of A Ride. Unpublished. (1.13 All Roads Lead to Floyd; and 5.18 Let Me Hear The Music)
Mercedes McCambridge - The Quality Of Mercy, 1981. (1.15 Don't Say Goodbye)
Kathryn Leigh Scott - 1) Last Dance at the Savoy, 2016; 2) Now With You, Now Without, 2017; 3) The Happy Hours, 2017; 4) A Welcome Respite, 2017. (1.16 The Black Orchid)
John Ireland - unpublished.
Excerpt here. (1.16 The Black Orchid)
Stewart Moss - My Trek, 2014. (1.17 J. "Digger" Doyle).
Marcia Wallace - Don't Look Back, We're Not Going That Way, 2004. (1.18 Beauty Knows No Pain).
Darby Hinton - Growing Up Israel, 2018. (1.18 Beauty Knows No Pain)
Season 2
Jimmy Borges - Confessions Of A Saloon Singer. Unpublished. (2.1 Billy Joe Bob, 3.1 Did You see the Sunrise? Part 1, 5.12 Little Games, 6.16 "This Island Isn't Big Enough....")
Allan Rich - A Leap From The Method: An Organic Approach To Acting, 2007 (2.4 From Moscow to Maui)
Soo Yong - Chinese Women Pioneers in Hawaii, 2002. Biography only. (2.5 and 2.6 Memories Are Forever)
Nancy Lee Grahn - Unpublished. 2022? (2.15 Try To Remember)
Dick Butkus - Stop-Action (1972) and Flesh And Blood (1997). (2.17 One More Summer)
Dana Wynter - Other People Other Places: Memories of Four Continents (2005). (2.19 Double Jeopardy and 3.8 Foiled Again)
Beverly Garland - Beverly Garland: Her Life and Career, 2012. Biography only. (2.22 Three Minus Two)
Denny Miller - Didn't You Used to Be What's His Name?, 2004. (2.22 Three Minus Two)
Season 3
Joel Rogosin - Writing A Life, 2004. (supervising producer 12 episodes 3.1-3.12)
Jameson Parker - An Accidental Cowboy, 2003. (3.3 Ki'i's Don't Lie)
Ernest Borgnine - My Autobiography, 2009. (3.9 Mr. White Death)
Burt Kennedy - Hollywood Trail Boss, 1997. Director. (3.10, Mixed Doubles)
Kim Richards - The Whole Truth: The Reality of It All, 2021? (3.10 Mixed Doubles)
Henry Gibson - Unfinished, unpublished. (3.10 Mixed Doubles)
Marcia Strassman - Life with a Side Order of Cancer, 2008. (3.12 Heal Thyself)
Peter Brown - The Fastest Gun in Hollywood: The Life Story of Peter Brown, 2013. (3.12 Heal Thyself)
Nicholas Coster - Another Whole Afternoon, 2021. (3.17 I Do?)
James Doohan - Beam Me Up Scotty, 1996. (3.22 The Big Blow)
Jane Merrow - Being An Actor, 2019. (4.6 Letter To A Duchess)
Carol Burnett - four books! 1) One More Time, 1986; 2) This Time Together, 2011; 3) Carrie & Me, 2014; 4) In Such Good Company, 2016. (4.14 Rembrandt's Girl and 8.7 A Girl Named Sue)
Patrick Macnee - 1) Blind In One Ear, 1989. 2) The Avengers & Me, 1997. (4.18 Holmes Is Where The Heart Is)
Sharon Stone - The Beauty Of Living Twice, 2021. (5.1 and 5.2 Echoes Of The Mind Parts 1 and 2)
Nehemiah Persoff - The Many Faces of Nehemiah, 2021. (5.21 Torah, Torah, Torah)
Peter Davison - Is There Life Outside The Box? 2016. (6.1 and 6.2 - Deja Vu)
Bruce Forsyth - The Autobiography, 2001. (6.20 A Little Bit of Luck... A Little Bit of Grief)
Orson Welles - Confessions Of a One Man Band. Unfinished. Unpublished. (Six episodes)
Frank Sinatra - Too many to count! (7.18 Laura)
Jackie Cooper - Please Don't Shoot My Dog, 1981. (Director - 7.22 Limbo and 8.5 Forever In Time)
Amy Yasbeck - With Love and Laughter, John Ritter, 2010. (8.2 Pleasure Principle, 8.4 Tigers Fan, 8.12 Resolutions: Part I, 8.13 Resolutions: Part II)
Kabir Bedi - Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life of an Actor, 2021. (8.10 Legend Of The Lost Art)