Gavin McLeod

Born in Mount Kisco, New York, on February 28, 1931, Allan George See – real name of Gavin MacLeod – graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ithaca College, graduating in 1952 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After serving in the Air Force, he moved to New York, where he worked at Radio City Music Hall while looking for acting work. He derived his stage name, “Gavin”, from a television character, and “MacLeod” from one of his acting teachers, Beatrice MacLeod. “My real name was not strong enough and it was confusing,” he commented in an interview.

In the late 1950s, he made his Broadway stage debut, and was soon recruited to the movies, in Robert Wise titles such as I Want to Live! and The Yangtze on Fire , where he was already playing a sailor. Gavin MacLeod   repeated this character in the Barco a la vista series, and in Operación Pacífico , by Blake Edwards , who used him again for the hilarious El guateque .

After the series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Hawaii 5-0 , Gavin MacLeod rose to fame with The Girl on TV , where he played host Murray Slaughter. After  Kelly’s Badass , where he accompanied Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland , they recruited him to play Captain Stubing, from Holidays at Sea , a character with whom he would become part of pop culture. He had ten seasons, between 1977 and 1987.

After divorcing Joan F. Rootvik in 1972, with whom he had four children, he was united with Patti MacLeod, with whom he embraced the evangelical faith. In 2013, Gavin MacLeod  published his memoir, “This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life.” “I hope my experience can help others, how I overcame obstacles and never gave up. There are so many lessons in life,” he commented in the volume, where he also detailed his experiences during the decade he spent working on  Vacation in the sea ​​.