Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin (born William Lyle Richardson; May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity in the film A Christmas Story. He appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the 1950s television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. From 1959-1961, McGavin starred in the NBC western series Riverboat, first with Burt Reynolds and then with Noah Beery, Jr. Description above from the Wikipedia article Darren McGavin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Magnum, P.I.
7.275
Tales from the Darkside
7.19
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
7.2
The Love Boat
6.3
Night Stalker
5.1
Touched by an Angel
7.2
Gargoyles
8.094
Route 66
6.3
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Highway to Heaven
7.385
Murphy Brown
6.5
The Martian Chronicles
6.9
Grace Under Fire
5.652
The Commish
7.12
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
The X-Files
8.377
Studio One
5
The Evil Touch
5.5
Millennium
7.659
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Sisters
7.2
The Islanders
8
Monsters
7.087
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
7.571
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Felony Squad
6.4
Rawhide
7.2
Cimarron Strip
5
Police Story
6.9
The Virginian
6.5
The Alcoa Hour
4
The Defenders
6.2
The Hitchhiker
6.1
Climax!
3.273
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Bracken's World
5
Civil Wars
2
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
The Rogues
7.2
Ben Casey
5.6
Riverboat
6.2
Stagecoach West
6
Suspense
4.909
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Tales of Tomorrow
6
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
3
Custer
6
Dr. Kildare
5.5
The Defenders
6.2
Small & Frye
4.5
The Outsider
5.2
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Virginian
6.5
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Ike
6.5
Around the World in 80 Days
6.6
The Name of the Game
6.8
The Name of the Game
6.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
V.I.P. Schaukel
6
Studio One
5
Studio One
5
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
6.3
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
Death Valley Days
6.4
Burke's Law
6.7
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Fallen Angels
5.9
Suspense
4.909
What's My Line?
6.9
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5.4
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
The Match Game
8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
7.8
The Name of the Game
6.8
Mannix
6.7
Love, American Style
6.056
Omnibus
6
Casey, Crime Photographer
0
Movies
The Man with the Golden Arm
7.153
Raw Deal
5.8
A Christmas Story
7.23
Pros & Cons
3
Billy Madison
6.185
No Deposit, No Return
6.2
By Dawn's Early Light
6.6
The Natural
6.894
Happy Hell Night
4.75
From the Hip
5.9
Airport '77
5.576
The Night Strangler
6.651
Turk 182!
5.8
Dead Heat
6.148
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
5.917
Captain America
4.5
Clara
0
The Night Stalker
6.839
The Case Against Brooklyn
5.8
The Delicate Delinquent
6.4
Here Comes the Judge
0
The Challenge
6
The Six Million Dollar Man
6.7
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
5.2
Summertime
6.8
The Baron and the Kid
0
Hangar 18
5.099
Something Evil
5.367
Blood and Concrete
5.74
Tribes
6
Mission Mars
4.2
She Wouldn't Say Yes
5.9
Perfect Harmony
6.056
Bullet for a Badman
6.2
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
6.5
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
6.8
Child in the Night
5.4
B. Must Die
4
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
6.1
Derby
7.5
The Diamond Trap
5.5
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
6.8
A Perfect Stranger
4.8
The Death of Me Yet
6.7
The Rookies
6
Firebird 2015 A.D.
2.714
Inherit the Wind
7.75
The American Clock
6.5
Mysteries of the Ancient World
0
Unclaimed Fortunes II
0
Zero to Sixty
4.667
The Challengers
5
The Great Sioux Massacre
4.2
43: The Richard Petty Story
6.5
Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents
0
The Outsider
6
A Word to the Wives...
1
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
4.621
Berlin Affair
0
Ike
6.2
Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
6
Mastergate
2
Donovan's Kid
6
Waikiki
5.5
Beau James
5.7
Anatomy of a Crime
6
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
7.7
Banyon
0
Your Next Job
0
A Song to Remember
6.3
Brinks: The Great Robbery
0
Crackle of Death
6
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
4.667
Kojak: It's Always Something
6
Disneyland '59
6.5
Law and Order
0
Sam Cade
0
Love for Rent
1.5
African Gold
0
The Users
1
Queen for a Day
6
Demon and the Mummy
6
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
0
The 48-Hour Mile
0
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
6.8