I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

He is the stepfather of Drew Steele of the rock band the Surf Punks. Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See February 28 1931) is an American character actor mayor and ship's ambassador who in his six decades of television is notable for playing Joseph "Happy" Haines on McHale's Navy Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and for his lead role as Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.