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Gavin MacLeod

(1931–2021) Actor United States

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Gavin MacLeod was an actor from the United States, best known for This Is Your Captain Speaking.

Quick Facts About Gavin MacLeod

Born: February 28, 1931
Died: May 29, 2021
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Known for: The Love Boat, The Mary Tyler Moore Show

About Gavin MacLeod

Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat. After growing up Catholic, MacLeod became an evangelical Christian in 1984. His career, which spanned six decades, included work as a Christian television host, author, and guest on several talk, variety, and religious programs.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Gavin MacLeod

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table,…

Anxiety

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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime…

Every morning

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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a…

Hours

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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy…

Busy

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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Bread

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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if…

Location

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“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.”

Autobiography

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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

Cruise

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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises,…

Cruise

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I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

Selflessness

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Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

Chance

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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way,…

Fortunate

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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that…

Did

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Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She…

Audrey

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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end…

Again

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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely…

Eleven

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Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She…

Character

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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

Days

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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough…

Enough

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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one…

I can

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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I…

Brilliant

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Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor…

Actors

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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am…

Lucky

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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a…

Behaviour

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“If I can do it, anybody can do it. Willpower is strong! I believe that. You just have to have faith in…

Autobiography

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