John Gavin in Psycho | 1960
Clip Name: Worried About Detective
John Gavin in Psycho | 1960
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles and John Gavin
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
About this actor
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. In acting terms, he is probably best known for the part of Sam Loomis, Janet Leigh's boyfriend in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and as Julius Caesar in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus. 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...
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