RIP Gavin Macleod

[matt_garth]

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Guy had an action figure made in his likeness and that is pretty cool in my book.

 

[Ookpik]

Fair winds and following seas.

RIP.

 

[garrow]

Most actors get zero starring roles in TV series. He got two. RIP.

 

[heyabbott]

A great part in Kelly’s Heroes.
For the time, Murray was very acerbic for TV and he played it perfectly

almost every actor in IMDB, born in the 20th century, is probably 3 degrees from Gavin. Everyone was on Love Boat

a good life is the best epitaph

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Most actors get zero starring roles in TV series. He got two. RIP.

He also was Happy in McHale’s Navy

 

[Michael_ Gee]

He had character roles in more '50s and '60s TV shows than one can name.

 

[DanOregon]

Two biggest shocks to me - he appeared on OZ, and was born Allan See. His birth name sounds more fake than the one he adopted.

 

[mpcincal]

I didn't know until a few years ago, he played a recurring heavy on the original "Hawaii Five-O"

 

[qtlaw]

Man another face from childhood ; yeah he was funny in MTM but he’s always Capt Steuben to me.

 

[Songbird]

My first experience with Gavin, as a kid growing up, was as Captain Stubing.

I didn't know he had any role till years later on the MTM Show which I didn't start watching till last year.

Gavin played Murray Slaughter as well as anyone could have. His comic timing and delivery, and his voice, are rather unique in TV history.

 

[playthrough]

With all the Friends reunion stuff, I read how the six get $20 million a year from syndication. Surely MacLeod and the Love Boat cast has done OK, given that the show is still humming all around the world.

 

[maumann]

Always with the negative waves, Moriarty! -- RIP, Gavin.

 

[HanSenSE]

In his heaven, Ted Baxter is no longer botching his scripts.

RIP.

 

[matt_garth]

“ … Hideko Sawakaki. Damn!”

In his heaven, Ted Baxter is no longer botching his scripts.

RIP.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I've watched a lot of "Love Boat" lately because there's a 24 hour "Love Boat" channel on Pluto TV and it's kitschy and ridiculous and it's fun to see the pseudo-celebrities of the 70s I'd forgotten about. Avery Schreiber! Donny Most! Kristy McNichol!

But mostly the show is dreadful. It's much worse than I remember it being and I remembered it as being terrible. And not long ago it struck me -- what was that like for Gavin McLeod? He went from playing a brilliant, funny man in one of the best-written shows in TV history to playing a cartoonish Cap'n Crunch character on one of the worst. They never did him any favors in that role -- Captain Stubing was dull and inconsistently written. I suppose he enjoyed the paychecks but lord, was that a massive step down from Murray Slaughter.

Anyway, RIP. I'll remember him ripping a script out of a typewriter and mocking Ted... and not waddling around in ill-fitting shorts asking "Where's Gopher?"

 

[Jake from State Farm]

And not long ago it struck me -- what was that like for Gavin McLeod? He went from playing a brilliant, funny man in one of the best-written shows in TV history to playing a cartoonish Cap'n Crunch character on one of the worst. They never did him any favors in that role -- Captain Stubing was dull and inconsistently written. I suppose he enjoyed the paychecks but lord, was that a massive step down from Murray Slaughter.

Anyway, RIP. I'll remember him ripping a script out of a typewriter and mocking Ted... and not waddling around in ill-fitting shorts asking "Where's Gopher?"

Since he did commercials for Princess Cruises after it went off the air I don’t think he minded too much

 

[ChrisLong]

You can watch it 24/7 on a Princess cruise.

 

[garrow]

This one's for the Captain (not Jeter).

 

[Michael_ Gee]

He was the villain in the very first episode of Peter Gunn! I know he was both a murderer and a mere suspect in different Perry Mason episodes. Unbelievable career.