Gavin MacLeod
Though best known for playing distinctly sunny characters in a trio of long-running and popular television series, Gavin MacLeod was typecast as a heavy for much of his early acting career. Director Blake Edwards first recognized his potential for comedy in 1959's "Operation Petticoat," and he later gained notice as Navy seaman "Happy" Haines on "McHale's Navy" (ABC, 1962-66) and news writer Murray Slaughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CBS, 1970-77). But it was as Merrill Stubing, captain of "The Love Boat" (ABC, 1977-1986) that ensured MacLeod's place in pop culture history, though it would eventually overshadow the large body of work that preceded it. After converting to evangelical Christianity in the mid-1980s, MacLeod began to host programming on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, while maintaining a reserved presence in secular entertainment.
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Gavin MacLeod
Filmography
Movies
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Betty White: A Celebration | Self | - | 2022 |
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The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry | Jonathan Sperry (Character) | $1.4M | 2008 |
22% |
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Time Changer | Norris Anderson (Character) | $15.3K | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Boat: A Summer Cruise | Capt. Stubing (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage | Capt. Stubing (Character) | - | 1990 |
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Student Exchange | Vice Principal Durfner (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The New Love Boat | Captain Merrill Stubing (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Boat III | Captain Merrill Stubing (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ransom for Alice | Yankee Sullivan (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Only With Married Men | Jordan Robbins (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Intruders | Warden (Character) | - | 1970 |
79% |
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Kelly's Heroes | Moriarty (Character) | - | 1970 |
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The Thousand Plane Raid | Sgt. Kruger (Character) | - | 1969 |
83% |
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The Party | Charlie S. Divot (Character) | - | 1968 |
85% |
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The Sand Pebbles | Crosley (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deathwatch | Emil (Character) | - | 1966 |
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McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force | Seaman Joseph Haines (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sword of Ali Baba | Hulagu Khan (Character) | - | 1965 |
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McHale's Navy | Seaman Joseph 'Happy' Hanes (Character) | - | 1964 |
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War Hunt | Pvt. Crotty (Character) | - | 1962 |
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The Crimebusters | Harry Deiner (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twelve Hours to Kill | Johnny (Character) | - | 1960 |
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High Time | Professor Thayer (Character) | - | 1960 |
81% |
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Operation Petticoat | Ernest Hunkle (Character) | - | 1959 |
86% |
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Pork Chop Hill | Pvt. Saxon (Character) | - | 1959 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 82% | That '70s Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 80% | The King of Queens | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001-2002 |
93% | 95% | Oz | Cardinal Frances Abgott (Guest Star) | 2000 |
14% | No Score Yet | Love Boat: The Next Wave | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | Jerry Marz (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Art Sommers (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Boat | Captain Merrill Stubing (Character) | 1977-1987 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
100% | 82% | Wonder Woman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tattletales | Guest | 1974-1975 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Murray Slaughter (Character) | 1970-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rhoda | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Hogan's Heroes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 1968-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flying Nun | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Garrison's Gorillas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Horse | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rat Patrol | Sgt. Archie Gribs (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Whelan (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Martian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Mortimer Hershey (Guest Star) | 1961 1965 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Andy Griffith Show | Bryan Bender (Guest Star) | 1965 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Fred Fay (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
83% | 92% | The Munsters | Paul Newmar (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Maxwell (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Lucky | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lock Up | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men Into Space | Dr. Dave Parsons (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Neil Jackson (Guest Star) | 1958 |