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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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Mary Ahern, Who Produced Early TV and Then Preserved It, Dies at 98
Ms. Ahern was a key behind-the-scenes figure in the landmark series “Omnibus” before becoming the Paley Center for Media’s first curator.
Mary V. Ahern in the late 1970s, around the time she became curator of the Museum of Broadcasting, now the Paley Center for Media. Credit.via Sue Rice
May 20, 2021, 2:45 p.m. ET
Mary V. Ahern, who was an important behind-the-scenes figure on the cultural magazine show “Omnibus” and other early television programs, then helped preserve those and similar touchstones of television history as the Paley Center for Media’s first curator, died on May 1 at a care center in Peabody, Mass. She was 98.
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