That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

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.