John Gavin
Gender: Male
Born: 8th April 1931 (currently 81 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Convoy, Destry, Doctors' Private Lives
Movies: Imitation of Life, Psycho, Spartacus, Jennifer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Breath of Scandal, Back Street, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Pedro Páramo, Terror in the Aisles, Midnight Lace, Romanoff and Juliet, The New Adventures of Heidi, Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, House of Shadows, Tammy Tell Me True, Four Girls in Town
John Gavin (born April 8, 1931) is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is half Mexican and fluent in Spanish.
Gavin's father's side, the Golenor family, of Irish origin, were early landowners in California when it was still under Spanish rule. His mother Delia Pablos, was a member of the powerful Pablos family in the Mexican state of Sonora, Mexico, and took the surname "Gavin" when she married Ray Gavin.
After attending St. John's Military Academy of Los Angeles, he earned a B.A. from Stanford University, where he did senior honors work in Latin American economic history and was a member of Stanford's Naval ROTC unit. During the Korean War Gavin was commissioned in the U.S. Navy serving aboard the USS Princeton offshore Korea where he served as an air intelligence officer from 1952 to 1955. Due to Gavin's fluency in both Spanish and Portuguese he was assigned as Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Milton E. Miles.
Following his naval service he offered himself as a technical adviser to a film about the US Navy, but was instead offered a screen test.
Contracted to Universal Pictures where he was groomed as a virile, strapping, handsome leading man
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