John Gavin (born John Anthony Golenor Pablos on April 8, 1931 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is half Mexican and fluent in Spanish.
In acting terms, he is probably best known for the part of Sam Loomis, Janet Leigh's boyfriend in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Gavin's father's side, the Golenor family, of Irish origin, were early landowners in California when it was still u...
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John Gavin (born John Anthony Golenor Pablos on April 8, 1931 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is half Mexican and fluent in Spanish.
In acting terms, he is probably best known for the part of Sam Loomis, Janet Leigh's boyfriend in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Gavin's father's side, the Golenor family, of Irish origin, were early landowners in California when it was still under Spanish rule; his father Herald changed the family's name to Gavin. His mother Delia Pablos, was a member of the powerful Pablos family in the Mexican state of Sonora, Mexico.
He received a B.A. from Stanford University, where he did senior honors work in Latin American economic history, and served in the U.S. Navy in air intelligence from 1952 to 1955.
Groomed as a virile, strapping, handsome leading man in the mold of Rock Hudson, some of his most famous roles include A Time to Love and A Time To Die and Imitation of Life (1959) for...
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