Gavin MacLeod is best known for his 10 years as Captain Stubing in ABC's smash-hit series The Love Boat . Gavin also spent seven happy years costarring in the award-winning television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show . As Murray Slaughter , the acid-tongued news writer, he was nominated twice by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as best actor in a comedy series. ithaca.edu
Gavin MacLeod was raised in Pleasantville, New York, the son of a Chippewa Indian and gas station owner. He followed his 1952 graduation from Ithaca College with military service, then moved to New York City and worked for a while as an usher and elevator www.imdb.com/name/nm0533891/
Gavin MacLeod is perhaps best known for his role as "Captain Merrill Stubing " in the popular television series, The Love Boat . One of the longest running television shows in history, The Love Boat cruised through ten seasons from 1977 to 1986 and is st www.princess.com/romance/macleod/index.html
Bald-pated, initially stocky actor Gavin MacLeod rapidly established himself as a slimy villain in several major TV programs of the late 1950s-early 1960s. His gift for comedy was fitfully exploited in films like Operation Petticoat (1959) and on TV seri www.superiorpics.com/gavin_macleod/
News and opinions about TV actor Gavin MacLeod . According to Wikipedia: Gavin MacLeod is an American actor, notable for playing Murray Slaughter on Mary Tyler Moore and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat. He is the father of Drew Steele , of the www.zimbio.com/Gavin+MacLeod