MacLeod also appeared as the villain on TV shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Edwards's private-eye series, Peter Gunn.

Oral tradition and Gaelic scholars who have preserved these traditions from the Hebrides also reference the most disastrous war fought between the MacLeods and MacDonalds of Skye, culminating in the Battle of Coire Na Creiche, " when Donald Gorm Mor who handfasted a year and a day with Margaret MacLeod, a sister of Rory Mor of Dunvegan, expelled his mistress so ignominiously from Duntulm.

His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.

MacLeod and Mees believe the word means something like " supernatural sending ", and that this points to a connection to the Ragnhild Tregagás charm, where a valkyrie is also " sent forth ".

Singer Re Styles ( born Shirley Marie MacLeod ) ( vocals ) and ex-Santana percussionist Mingo Lewis were also fixtures for much of the band's early history.

* Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing, " Your Captain "; also playing Capt.

According to Clan MacLeod tradition, Leod inherited some of his lands from a foster father, who was a sheriff of the Hebridean island of Skye ; other lands he inherited from his father-in-law, who was also a lord on Skye.

MacLeod tradition also states that Leod was the father of four sons and two daughters.

MacLeod was also involved in the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1961.

Directed by Brian G. Hutton, who also directed the 1968 World War II adventure film Where Eagles Dare, the film stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O ' Connor and Donald Sutherland, with secondary roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, and Stuart Margolin.

Brian MacLeod replaced Federico Gil Sola for the second album, and Kurt Herr left during the making of Between Two Words, to be replaced by Jeff Trott for their third album, Ten Women, which also charted in 1987.

William Sharp ( 12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905 ) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime.

McCarty was the youngest and longest surviving member of the research team responsible for this feat ( known as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment ), which also included Oswald T. Avery and Colin MacLeod ; he died on January 2, 2005, from congestive heart failure.

Significant numbers of men from Clan Elphinstone, Clan Forbes, Clan Keith, Clan MacIntyre, Clan MacKenzie, Clan MacLean, Clan MacLeod of MacLeod, Clan MacLeod of Lewis, Clan MacTavish, Clan MacMillan, Clan Maxwell, Clan Ramsay, Clan Wemyss and a few members of the Clan Innes also joined the Jacobite army.

" MacLeod also reassured the reader that he, for one, never thought that Scotland were invincible, and claimed to be perfectly at peace with himself.

Hurlstone was also a successful portrait painter, one of his best heads being that of Richard, seventh earl of Cavan, exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1833, and again, together with that of General Sir John MacLeod, at the National Portrait Exhibition of 1868.

When Cold Case premiered, the show's similarities to Cold Squad ( including but not limited to a tough female cop with dirty blonde hair leading a team investigating cold cases ) led Cold Squad creators Julia Keatley and Matt MacLeod to retain an intellectual property attorney to look into the situation ( CTV also aired Cold Case as well ).

It is also the fictional birthplace of Connor and Duncan MacLeod from the Highlander franchise.

LPP leader A. A. MacLeod lost his downtown Toronto seat of Bellwoods in this election and three other LPP candidates were also defeated.

During the war, MacLeod was one of many university-based scientists and physicians who advised the Federal government on medical matters “ when asked .” In 1941, he had been appointed Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at New York University ( NYU ) School of Medicine, and also worked as a consultant to the U. S. Secretary of War.

He usually fights with the sword that belonged to Connor MacLeod but also carries a boomerang he is quite skilled with.

When Duncan MacLeod meets him in 1995, Methos had not taken a head for roughly 200 years ; however, his sword skills were not diminished, although he admitted to be a little rusty, and later on also admitting he lacked the fire / passion to continue fighting at all.

After MacLeod beheads Grayson, he, Tessa and Richie, live in a barge on the Seine near Notre Dame de Paris.

The first episode of the second season, " The Watchers " ( 1993 ), shows Tessa, MacLeod and Richie settling back to their antiques store in Seacouver and meeting the Watchers, a secret society that observes Immortals without interfering.

In the meantime, MacLeod tells Richie that he is getting married because of the thought of losing Tessa.

MacLeod finally finds them and kills Wolf, then sends Tessa home with Richie.

MacLeod tells Richie, " She was part of our lives, Richie.

" Later, while MacLeod trains Richie roughly so that he can face Immortal Annie Devlin ( Sheena Easton ), Richie angrily tells MacLeod, " You can't get past it, Mac.

" Tessa's death scene shows MacLeod kneeling next to Tessa and cuddling her, then Richie reviving and speaking with MacLeod.

The pilot introduced Richie Ryan ( Stan Kirsch ) as a thief who entered Duncan's shop and witnessed the confrontation between Duncan, evil Immortal Slan Quince ( Richard Moll ) and Duncan's fellow clansman Connor MacLeod, the hero from the movies.

One night, a young street punk called Richie Ryan breaks in to the shop whilst they are celebrating Tessa's birthday, but is caught by MacLeod, who threatens to cut off his head with a sword.

After what he has seen, MacLeod also tells Richie the truth about himself and the others-that he is 400 years old and he, like them, is Immortal.

MacLeod follows his friends to Paris, where he and Tessa decide to stay, living on Duncan's barge ; Tessa takes up a post as a curator, Duncan takes up the role of a kept man and Richie that of a fish out of water, in his role as a kept man, Duncan does the shopping, but as he is returning to the barge one morning, he sees a clown dressed as a mime kill an elderly man, (" For Evil's Sake ").

The team started 5 – 6 and MacLeod was fired, replaced by assistant coach Richie Adubato.

A life of crime was beckoning Richie Ryan the night that he broke into " Noël and MacLeod Antiques " in 1992.

Richie would then be taken-in by MacLeod and his girlfriend Tessa Noël.

Richie revived to find MacLeod cradling Tessa in his arms and himself immortal.

Later on, Richie, who was now immortal, ran into some trouble, as he and Duncan MacLeod ran into an Irish immortal named Annie Devlin.

Martin was using Richie to lead him to Duncan MacLeod.

At the end, Kristov captured Richie ( who still hadn't left the country ) to blackmail MacLeod to kill Tasha in exchange for Richie's life.

Back in Seacouver, Richie concentrated on training, running the dojo, and letting MacLeod fight his own battles.