Who was the captain of the love boat series#
Gavin MacLeod, center, died Saturday at age 90.Īlthough scorned by critics, the series proved immensely popular, lasting 11 seasons and spinning off several TV movies, including two in which MacLeod remained at the cruise ship's helm. The cast of The Love Boat pictured at the Great Wall near Beijing, China, in 1983. It produced two spinoffs, Rhoda and Phyllis, starring Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, who had portrayed Mary's neighbors. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a smash from the start and remains a classic of situation comedies. Realizing he wasn't right for playing the blustery, short-tempered TV newsroom leader, MacLeod asked if he could try instead for the wisecracking TV news writer, his jokes often at the expense of the dimwitted anchorman Ted Baxter.
He had originally tested for Moore's TV boss, Lou Grant, a part that went to Ed Asner. Known to sitcom fans for his bald head and wide smile, MacLeod toiled in near anonymity for more than a decade, appearing on dozens of TV shows and in several movies before landing his Mary Tyler Moore role in 1970. MacLeod's health had been poor recently but no cause of death was given, the trade publication reported. MacLeod died early Saturday, his nephew, Mark See, told Variety. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, before going on to even bigger fame as the cheerful Capt. He was best known for roles on The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Actor Gavin MacLeod, pictured in 2018, has died at 90.
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