He was married to former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley. Hosted the pagent a few times.
I think he hosted a game show? That seems where I remember him from.
So long, Gary Seven.
If you mean the ST:TOS character, that was Robert Lansing. Here’s Collins’ IMDb entry. Very busy in the 60s and 70s, not a lot after that. Low point was probably Bandit: Bandit Bandit. (Yes, that is a title of a TV movie.)
He played a beauty pageant MC in Beauty with Minnie Driver in 2000. Reality and fiction blurred.
I wondered why MeTV was playing all those Gary Collins episodes of Night Gallery.
They blew chunks, by the way.
Wackiest Ship in the Army!
He always struck me as someone who thought he could get by on his looks, while having no talent whatsoever.
He should have been born a generation or two later.