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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-05-07 (102 years old)

Place of Birth

Spokane, Washington, U.S.

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.

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Known For

Acting

2005

2004

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made as Red (archive footage)

1999

Pros & Cons as Mr. Stanford

1997

Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas as Mr. Parker (archive footage)

1996

Millennium as Henry Black

1995

Billy Madison as Brian Madison
Derby as Lester Corbett

1994

A Perfect Stranger as John Henry Phillips
Touched by an Angel as George Zarko
Burke's Law as Conrad Hill

1993

The American Clock as Older Arthur Huntington
The X-Files as Agent Arthur Dales
Fallen Angels as Old Man

1992

Happy Hell Night as Henry Collins
Mastergate as Folsom Bunting

1991

Clara as Albert Kroll
Blood and Concrete as Hank Dick
Perfect Harmony as Mr. Hobbs
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990

Captain America as General Fleming
Child in the Night as Os Winfield

1989

Around the World in 80 Days as Benjamin Mudge

1988

Dead Heat as Dr. Ernest McNab
The Diamond Trap as Chief Walter Vadney
Inherit the Wind as E.K. Hornbeck
Murphy Brown as Bill Brown

1987

From the Hip as Craig Duncan

1986

Raw Deal as Chief Harry Shannon

1985

Turk 182! as Det. Kowalski

1984

The Natural as Gus Sands
The Baron and the Kid as Jack Beamer
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. as Dr. David Jennings
Murder, She Wrote as Martin Tremaine

1983

A Christmas Story as The Old Man
The Hitchhiker as Old Man

1981

1980

Hangar 18 as Harry Forbes
Waikiki as Capt. McGuire
Magnum, P.I. as Buck Gibson
The Martian Chronicles as Sam Parkhill

1979

Ike as Gen. George S. Patton
Donovan's Kid as Timothy Donovan
Love for Rent as Coach John Martin
Tales of the Unexpected as Sheriff Milt Singleton
Ike as Gen. George S. Patton

1978

Hot Lead & Cold Feet as Mayor Ragsdale
Zero to Sixty as Michael Nolan
The Users as Henry Waller

1977

Airport '77 as Stan Buchek
The Love Boat as Lawrence Evans

1976

Brinks: The Great Robbery as James McNally
Crackle of Death as Carl Kolchak
Law and Order as Deputy Chief Brian O'Malley
Demon and the Mummy as Carl Kolchak

1975

B. Must Die as Pal Kovak

1974

1973

The Night Strangler as Carl Kolchak
The Six Million Dollar Man as Oliver Spencer

1972

The Night Stalker as Carl Kolchak
Something Evil as Paul Worden
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole as Dr. Lou Grazzo
The Rookies as Sgt. Eddie Ryker

1971

The Death of Me Yet as Joe Chalk
Banyon as Lieutenant Pete Cordova
Mooch Goes to Hollywood as Darren McGavin (uncredited)

1970

The Challenge as Jacob Gallery
Tribes as Drake
The Challengers as Jim McCabe
Berlin Affair as Paul Killian
The 48-Hour Mile as David Ross

1969

Anatomy of a Crime as David Ross

1968

Mission Mars as Col. Mike Blaiswick
Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents as Barney B. Duncan
The Outsider as David Ross
The Name of the Game as Jesse Gil McCray
The Name of the Game as Eddie Gannon

1967

The Outsider as David Ross
Mannix as Mark

1966

Mission: Impossible as J. Richard Taggart

1965

The Great Sioux Massacre as Captain Frederick William Benton
African Gold as Mike Gregory

1964

The Rogues as Amos Champion

1963

1962

The Virginian as Mark Troxel
The Virginian as Sam Evans
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Sheridan Westcott

1961

The Defenders as Howard Potter
Dr. Kildare as Prof. Felix Holman
The Defenders as Marty Wisnovsky

1960

1959

Rawhide as Jed Hadley
Riverboat as Captain Grey Holden

1958

1957

Beau James as Charley Hand

1955

Summertime as Eddie Yaeger
A Word to the Wives... as George Peters
Gunsmoke as Will Helmick
Gunsmoke as Lon Gorman
Gunsmoke as Joe Bascome
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lyle Endicott

1954

Climax! as Walter
The Wonderful World of Disney as John Jay Forrest

1952

Death Valley Days as Zacharias Gurney

1951

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1949

Suspense as Ted Larson

1948

Studio One as Will Sorrell
Studio One as Johnny Quigg
Studio One as Tom Kendall

1945

She Wouldn't Say Yes as The Kid - Soldier in Hospital (uncredited)
Your Next Job as Balancing hobbyist
A Song to Remember as Student (uncredited)

Directing

1959

Riverboat as Director

1958

Buckskin as Director

Writing

1978

Zero to Sixty as Screenplay

Production