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- The Love Boat's cruise director Julie McCoy was played by actress Lauren Tewes.
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Tewes was cast for the role of cruise director Julie McCoy on The Love Boat, selected from more than 100 actresses who auditioned. She starred in the third and final pilot of the show, cast the day before production began on the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach. [12]
May 27, 2024 · Step aboard for the untold story of Lauren Tewes, the iconic Love Boat actress who brought Cruise Director Julie McCoy to life. Discover the trials, triumphs, and behind-the-scenes secrets of her remarkable career.
- Gavin MacLeod — Captain Merrill Stubing. When he was cast on The Love Boat, MacLeod had just wrapped up seven years on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. His agent told him The Love Boat script “sucked” but added that Spelling really wanted MacLeod for the part, and the industry-savvy actor recognized it immediately for what it was: a gold mine.
- Bernie Kopell — Doctor Adam Bricker. Kopell was already well known to TV audiences long before he set sail on The Love Boat. Oddly, he started out his acting career playing mostly Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.
- Fred Grandy — Yeoman Purser Burl "Gopher" Smith. Up until The Love Boat, Fred Grandy’s biggest break was a recurring role as Carol’s boyfriend on the show Maude.
- Ted Lange – Bartender Isaac Washington. Surprisingly, Ted Lange used to co-write a sex advice column for the magazine FHM. Initially, his co-writer was porn star Jenna Jameson and then he partnered up with Beth Ostrosky Stern, wife of Howard.
Dec 24, 2020 · The Love Boat fans likely remember the sunny cruise director, Julie McCoy played by Lauren Tewes. But what they may not recall is the reason why Tewes suddenly disappeared from the TV series .
- Gina Ragusa
- Senior Writer
Oct 19, 2022 · For seven years, Lauren Tewes starred on The Love Boat as Julie McCoy—or, as the classic intro called her, "Your Cruise Director." She appeared on nearly 200 episodes of the series before leaving after Season 7 in 1984.
- Lia Beck
- Freelance Writer
Award-winning anthropologist Milo Endler ( Harry Morgan) and Vivian ( Katherine Helmond ), his wife of fifteen years, are on their way to a dig in the South Pacific. Milo's disgraced colleague Deke Donner ( José Ferrer) once embezzled a university's money to bet on the horses at the racetrack.
Jan 27, 2024 · Tewes was famously cast only days before the pilot of the show was shot, and beat out at least 100 other actresses for the role of cruise director Julie McCoy.