Gavin MacLeod, Love Boat Captain and Mary Tyler Moore Show Star, Dies at 90
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MacLeod’s nephew, Mark See, confirmed his death to
Variety. MacLeod died in the early morning on May 29. No cause of death was given, but MacLeod’s health had declined in recent months.
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MacLeod played a relatively minor character on ABC hit “McHale’s Navy,” starring Ernest Borgnine, but as newswriter Murray Slaughter, he was certainly one of the stars of “Mary Tyler Moore,” appearing in every one of the classic comedy’s 168 episodes during its 1970-77 run on CBS. Murray was married to Marie (Joyce Bulifant) but was in love with Moore’s Mary Richards. His desk was right next to Mary’s in the WGN newsroom, so MacLeod was frequently in the shot during the sitcom, and Murray, like all the other characters, was richly developed a hallmark of MTM shows.
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Gavin MacLeod has died. Best known for his TV roles first, as endearingly sadsack TV writer Murray Slaughter on
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and later as stalwart
Love Boat skipper Captain Stubing MacLeod was a fixture of American television for the better part of two decades, and a veteran actor besides. Per
TMZ, he died early this morning, of undisclosed causes. MacLeod was 90.
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After an early stint trying to make headway in the New York acting scene of the mid-1950s (and ditching his birth name, Allan See, for his more dynamic stage name), MacLeod got his start on TV in 1957, beginning a long series of day-part roles playing heavies on shows like
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