Darren McGavin
Acting · 83 years old
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
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
The X-Files
Agent Arthur Dales
The Match Game
Self
Gargoyles
G.F. Benton/Dominic Dracon (voice)
The Islanders
Phil
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Sheridan Westcott
Inherit the Wind
E.K. Hornbeck
The Wonderful World of Disney
John Jay Forrest
The Wonderful World of Disney
Timothy Donovan
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Red Hillman
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Lyle Endicott
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Millennium
Henry Black
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Carl Kolchak
Mission: Impossible
J. Richard Taggart
Murder, She Wrote
Martin Tremaine
Derby
Lester Corbett
Highway to Heaven
Magnum, P.I.
Buck Gibson
Tales from the Darkside
Van Conway
A Christmas Story
The Old Man
