Known For
Acting
Born
May 07, 1922
Died
Feb 25, 2006
Place of Birth
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Credits
160 titles
Darren McGavin
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Night Stalker
Pros & Cons
Mr. Stanford
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Mr. Parker (archive footage)
Small Time
Sam
Millennium
Henry Black
Derby
Lester Corbett
Billy Madison
Brian Madison
Gargoyles
G.F. Benton/Dominic Dracon (voice)
Touched by an Angel
George Zarko
A Perfect Stranger
John Henry Phillips
Mysteries of the Ancient World
Narrator
Burke's Law
Conrad Hill
Grace Under Fire
Grace's Dad
The X-Files
Agent Arthur Dales
Fallen Angels
Old Man
The American Clock
Older Arthur Huntington
Mastergate
Folsom Bunting
Civil Wars
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Hell Night
Henry Collins
The Commish
Blood and Concrete
Hank Dick
Sisters
Perfect Harmony
Mr. Hobbs
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
Albert Kroll
Clara
Albert Kroll
Captain America
General Fleming
By Dawn's Early Light
Condor
Child in the Night
Os Winfield
Unclaimed Fortunes II
Host
Kojak: It's Always Something
Wainwright
Around the World in 80 Days
Benjamin Mudge
The Diamond Trap
Chief Walter Vadney
Murphy Brown
Bill Brown
Monsters
Hubert
Dead Heat
Dr. Ernest McNab
Inherit the Wind
E.K. Hornbeck
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
A. Z. Nathan
From the Hip
Craig Duncan
Worlds Beyond
Harry Hewart
Raw Deal
Chief Harry Shannon
Turk 182!
Det. Kowalski
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Dr. Gerrit Koets
The Baron and the Kid
Jack Beamer
Murder, She Wrote
Martin Tremaine
Tales from the Darkside
Van Conway
Highway to Heaven
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Dr. David Jennings
The Natural
Gus Sands (uncredited)
The Hitchhiker
Old Man