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John Gavin
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American film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico (1931–2018)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Second petition of John Gavin to Col. Blair
- Growing into God
- Imitation of Life
- Mysteries of the Lord's Prayer
- Pope John Paul II on the body
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Film & TV
Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA
John Gavin (April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018) was an American actor who was the United States Ambassador to Mexico (1981–86) and the president of the Screen Actors Guild (1971–73). He was best known for his performances in the films Imitation of Life (1959), Spartacus (1960), Psycho (1960), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), playing leading roles in a series of films for producer Ross Hunter.…
Known for
- Disclosure — Sam Loomis (archive footage)2020
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema2002
- Sophia Loren: Her Own Story — Cary Grant1980
- Hart to Hart1979
- Doctors' Private Lives1979
- Jennifer — Senator Tremayne1978
- Doctors' Private Lives — Dr. Jeffrey Latimer1978
- The New Adventures of Heidi — Dan Wyler1978
- Flying High1978
- Fantasy Island — Harry Kellino1978
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1980-05-06
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,681x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,730x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,742x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,340x
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Key facts
- President
- Ronald Reagan
- Preceded by
- Julian Nava
- Succeeded by
- Charles J. Pilliod Jr.
- Born
- Juan Vincent Apablasa , ( 1931-04-08 ) April 8, 1931, Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Died
- February 9, 2018 (2018-02-09) (aged 86), Beverly Hills, California , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouses
- Cecily Evans ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1957 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1965 ) Constance Towers ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 )
- Alma mater
- Stanford University
- Occupation
- Actor diplomat
- Branch service
- United States Navy
- Years of service
- 1951–1955
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Battles wars
- Korean War
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- John Gavin Destry 1964 (cropped).JPG
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- Commons category
- John Gavin
- date of birth
- 1931-01-01
- date of death
- 2018-01-01
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- P10632
- John Gavin
- end of work period
- 1981-00-00
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Article
John Gavin (born Juan Vincent Apablasa; April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018) was an American actor and diplomat who was the president of the Screen Actors Guild (1971–1973), and the United States Ambassador to Mexico (1981–1986). Among the films he appeared in were A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), Imitation of Life (1959), Spartacus (1960), Psycho (1960), Midnight Lace (1960) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), playing leading roles for producer Ross Hunter.
Early life