Goodbye Captain Stubing.
Love Boat and MTM actor has passed at 90.
Love Boat and MTM actor has passed at 90.
RIP Gavin MacLeod at 90
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Rest in peace Mr. MacLeod.
Farewell Murray and Capt. Stubing.
And don't forget him in this classic:
Interesting thing about MacLeod is that pre-MTM, he was a little heavier and seemed to be primarily cast as shady/sleazy types, like petty crime lord Big Chicken in Hawaii Five-O.
Who would have guessed that Lou and Sue Ann (actors) would outlive Mary and Rhoda?
I heard an interview with him a year or so ago where he said that he still had Big Chicken fans coming to see him, they had t-shirts and everything.
He also played Crosley, a kind of a jerk of a sailor, in the 1966 epic The Sand Pebbles.
"The gun's jammed, sir."
I heard an interview with him a year or so ago where he said that he still had Big Chicken fans coming to see him, they had t-shirts and everything.
He also played Crosley, a kind of a jerk of a sailor, in the 1966 epic The Sand Pebbles.
"The gun's jammed, sir."
Another interesting tidbit--in a Season 1 episode of MTM (don't ask me which one offhand), there's a story thread about a children's show host named Big Chicken, meant at face value to be a Big Bird spoof...but when they had Murray talking about Big Chicken, I had to wonder if that was a deliberate nod.
I also caught him as a shady character in a Rat Patrol episode; and maybe something else in my period viewing.
Well, that's part of 'acting'... isn't it?
I wondered the same thing. It was the episode where Lou gets fired and Mary goes to bat for him with the eccentric station owner (Slim Pickens).
His weight made a difference, too. As The Old Mixer said, in a lot of his heavy parts he looked... heavier.
The extra weight definitely helped sell him as a slimeball.
I remember Jack Lord’s line about that character’s son: “I shot him…but you…YOU killed him.”
I believe that was said to Harold Gould as the mob boss in one of the Vashon crime family episodes.
Yeah that's the one.
ETA: Gavin MacLeod-Harold Gould connection: Gould played Rhoda's dad on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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