Gavin MacLeod Honored By Princess Cruises With 80th Birthday Party - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Zoneboy · 03-14-2011, 07:37 AM

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Princess Cruises honored television’s most beloved captain, Gavin MacLeod, with a special 80th birthday party aboard Golden Princess this week in Los Angeles.
Crew members, along with his friends and family, sang “Happy Birthday” and presented him with a massive cake – a 5-foot-long, 3D replica of the original “Love Boat,” Pacific Princess.

MacLeod is perhaps best known for his role as “Captain Merrill Stubing” in the popular television series, The Love Boat. One of the longest running television shows in history, The Love Boat cruised through 10 seasons from 1977 to 1986 and is still in syndication in 92 countries worldwide. This year also marks MacLeod’s 25th anniversary serving as Princess Cruises’ spokesperson.

MacLeod’s impressive career spans television, theater and film. He spent seven years on the award-winning television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show as “Murray Slaughter,” the acid-tongued news writer. His other well-known television roles include “Happy” on McHale’s Navy and “Big Chicken” on Hawaii Five-O, and he has also appeared in The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hogan’s Heroes, The Big Valley, Ironside, To Catch a Thief, Run For Your Life, Hotel and Murder She Wrote.

MacLeod’s film debut was in 1958 with Susan Hayward in the Oscar-winning film I Want to Live. His subsequent 35 film credits include Compulsion with Orson Welles, Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant, High Time with Bing Crosby, The Party with Peter Sellers, The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen and Kelly’s Heroes with Clint Eastwood.

catlover79 · 03-16-2011, 03:05 PM

That's awesome - what a sweet gesture.

(belated) to Gavin!!!

comedyfreak · 03-18-2011, 11:36 PM

He deserves it, he's a legend. Happy Belated Gavin!!

Schmoopie · 03-19-2011, 01:20 PM

That's awesome! And what an amazing cake! I had forgotten that Gavin was their spokesperson! What a wonderful way to say thank you!

catlover79 · 03-19-2011, 02:31 PM

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03-14-2011, 07:37 AM	#1
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03-16-2011, 03:05 PM	#2
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