In 2011, after the election of Carter Poole ( David Ramsey), Frank offers to tender his resignation, but Poole decided to keep Frank on as PC. Frank was appointed the Police Commissioner by Mayor Frank Russo ( Bruce Altman). Paul's Chapel, where he and other officers slept in the pews. He spent days at Ground Zero, and took refuge at St. On September 11, 2001, Frank was working in the North Tower when the South Tower collapsed. He thereafter served in various positions across the city, including Chief of the Brooklyn South Division and the Chief of Department of the NYPD, culminating in being appointed Police Commissioner. He began his career as a patrol officer, and was later promoted to Detective 3rd Grade. Paula visits Frank and reveals the news in an effort to get her son, a young detective in the firearms unit, assigned to a less dangerous precinct.Īfter serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War (during which time he held the rank of Lieutenant and was awarded the Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal ), Frank became the third generation of Reagans to become a police officer. Paula said the two had a brief affair and she never told Joe about her pregnancy or his son. It's revealed in Season 10's "Family Secrets" that Frank also has one more grandson, Joseph Hill, the son of Paula Hill, whom Joe Reagan met at the academy. Frank is also a loving grandfather to Erin's daughter, Nicky Reagan-Boyle ( Sami Gayle), and Danny's two children, Jack (Tony Terraciano) and Sean Reagan (Andrew Terraciano). Frank married Mary Margaret Reagan (née Conor) in the early 1970s, and they had four children together: Danny, Erin, Joe, and Jamie. His older brother, Peter Christopher Reagan, died of leukemia at the age of 18 months, over a year before Frank was born. star Tom Selleck, is the patriarch of the Reagan family.įrank is the younger son of Henry ( Len Cariou) and Betty Reagan, born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York in the early 1950s. Additionally, a production supervisor, Paul Cabbad, had his license renewed (and then hand-delivered to him on the "Blue Bloods" set) despite a 2012 domestic violence arrest that should have led to a revoked license.Frank Reagan is played by actor Tom Selleck.Ĭommissioner Francis Xavier Reagan, portrayed by former Magnum, P.I. All of it was also reportedly approved by ex-police commissioner Bill Bratton, whose wife, Rikki Klieman, appeared as a judge on a 2014 "Blue Bloods" episode. For example, Selleck didn't meet the residency requirement, while others didn't provide proper documentation. He alleged that his supervisor, Deputy Inspector Mike Endall, pulled strings for certain cast members of "Blue Bloods" who, if the rules had been properly followed, wouldn't have received a gun permit. Paul Dean was sentenced to prison for bribery conspiracy in 2019. The production maintains a close relationship with the New York City police department and government, which faced a corruption scandal - Lt. It's very difficult to get a license to carry a handgun in New York City, but "Blue Bloods" stars Tom Selleck, Bridget Moynahan, and Will Estes all managed to get one, according to two sources who spoke to the New York Daily News. Early episodes of "Blue Bloods" utilized actual metallic silverware, but all the banging against plates proved too loud, according to CBS 58. Propmasters populate the Reagan dinner table with plastic knives, forks, and spoons. This way, he doesn't eat too much food and continuity of his food props is maintained. And while the food is real, the flatware is not. When he's delivering a line or the camera is otherwise trained on him, he'll often pick up a knife and start buttering his bread. Selleck also employs one other trick to get through the filming of the dinner scenes with his digestion intact. Tom Selleck, on the other hand, tries to eat all the meat but uses a spit bucket for the rest of the meal. "It's dinner, right? I gotta eat," he told Access Hollywood. The actors tend to get a little stir crazy during the long shoots and react in different ways: Bridget Moynahan gets the giggles, while Donnie Wahlberg has to take a nap on a couch in the living room set next to the dining room set because he eats the prop dinner food all day long.
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