Gavin MacLeod, actor known for Love Boat and Mary Tyler Moore Show, dies at 90

Television actor Gavin MacLeod of The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show has died. He was 90.

MacLeod died early Saturday, his nephew, Mark See, told Variety. MacLeod’s health had been poor recently, but no cause of death was given, the trade publication reported.

MacLeod achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on the 1970s comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

He went on to a lead role, and bigger fame, as the cheerful Capt. Merrill Stubing