Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

'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. 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 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.