Autobiographies

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And that's Season 2 done.

If anyone has any of these books gathering dust on their shelf, and they have Magnum stories in them, please post them here!

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According to IMDB, Joel Rogosin was supervising producer on the first 12 episodes of Season 3. His memoir, 'Writing A Life' was published in 2004.

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In 2009, Hawaii jazz singer Jimmy Borges (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....") said in interviews that he was writing his memoir, 'Confessions Of A Saloon Singer'. It was never published for unknown reasons.

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In 2009, Hawaii jazz singer Jimmy Borges (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....") said in interviews that he was writing his memoir, 'Confessions Of A Saloon Singer'. It was never published for unknown reasons.

There are many autobiographies that seem to fall into this category, unfortunately. Are you interested in only autobiographies of MPI actors or also biographies? Biographies would also include many famous featured actors such as Orion Welles that I mentioned earlier.

On a side note, I just read about Selleck’s autobiography in the Parade section of the Sunday LA Times today and he is actively working on it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/parade.com ... on-12/amp/

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In 2009, Hawaii jazz singer Jimmy Borges (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....") said in interviews that he was writing his memoir, 'Confessions Of A Saloon Singer'. It was never published for unknown reasons.

There are many autobiographies that seem to fall into this category, unfortunately. Are you interested in only autobiographies of MPI actors or also biographies? Biographies would also include many famous featured actors such as Orion Welles that I mentioned earlier.

I am interested in both biography and autobiography. As I find them, I am adding them all to the first post in the thread. I know Sinatra had loads of biographies - I just haven't got to Season 7 yet! I started with the ones I knew about (hence Sinatra being included - I was vaguely aware there were books on him), then went back to Season 1, Episode 1 and started Googling the cast and crew of each episode.

If you know of any biographies I have missed, do post them here. I will get to the Sinatra/Welles ones at some point!

I 've just found a biography of Tom Selleck from 1983. Had no idea about that one!

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Jameson Parker (3.3 Ki'i's Don't Lie) - aka AJ Simon - was shot and almost killed in LA in 1992. In 2003 he published his memoir of the events that followed - 'An Accidental Cowboy'. As it's post 1992, there won't be any mention of Magnum. But I'll add it to the list anyway.

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Nicholas Coster (3.17 I Do?) published his memoir 'Another Whole Afternoon' in March 2021.

Weird note. Coster was formerly married to actress Candace Hilligoss who wrote her memoir in 2017 titled 'The Odyssey and The Idiocy, Marriage to an Actor' in which she absolutely slates him. Ah, Hollywood marriages!

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Amy Yasbeck (8.2 Pleasure Principle, 8.4 Tigers Fan, 8.12 Resolutions: Part I, 8.13 Resolutions: Part II) wrote a memoir of her life with her husband John Ritter, 'With Love and Laughter, John Ritter'.

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He never wrote a memoir, but this is worth mentioning: On 29th December, 1987, Walter Chotzen (he played Icepick in 3.5 Past Tense) was the subject of an 85 minute video interview about his life in Germany, escaping from there in the 1930s, and his life in the US. He had eight children!

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511084

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Burt Kennedy directed many westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He also directed episode 3.10, Mixed Doubles, his only Magnum credit. In 1997 he published his memoir, 'Hollywood Trail Boss'.

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Kim RIchards (3.10 Mixed Doubles), one of the original child leads in Escape To WItch Mountain, has written her autobiography 'The Whole Truth: The Reality of It All. Originally intended to be published earlier this year, it is supposedly coming out in two weeks' time. According to media reports there was some doubt as to whether it would be published at all.

Kim has lead a controversial life (see her Wiki for more). In the last decade she has appeared in 128 episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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According to scriptwriter Mark Evanier in his tribute to the late Henry Gibson (3.10 Mixed Doubles), Henry was in the process of writing his autobiography. He asked Evanier for some notes on their time working on DIsney's cartoon series The Wuzzles. Alas, no autobiography was ever published. We can only guess how much of it he wrote.

I remember Henry Gibson from Innerspace and The Burbs. And Gremlins II. He was a favourite of director Joe Dante!

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Marcia Strassman, perhaps best known for playing Rick Moranis' wife in the Honey I Shrunk The Kids films, played a guest role in 3.12 - Heal Thyself. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, prompting her to write her memoir 'Life with a Side Order of Cancer' in 2008.

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Peter Brown (3.12 Heal Thyself), best known for Lawman and Maverick in the 1960s, wrote his memoir 'The Fastest Gun in Hollywood: The Life Story of Peter Brown' in 2013.

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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)

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This is a very interesting project.