Darren McGavin
Acting
Born: 1922-05-07 in Spokane, Washington, U.S.
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
The X-Files
Agent Arthur Dales
The Love Boat
Lawrence Evans
Murder, She Wrote
Martin Tremaine
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Mannix
Mark
Mission: Impossible
J. Richard Taggart
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Sheridan Westcott
The Islanders
Phil
Magnum, P.I.
Buck Gibson
Murphy Brown
Bill Brown
Omnibus
The Virginian
Mark Troxel
The Virginian
Sam Evans
Rawhide
Jed Hadley
Touched by an Angel
George Zarko
Tales from the Darkside
Van Conway
Robert Montgomery Presents
Joe Gillis
Love, American Style
Corbett
Dr. Kildare
Prof. Felix Holman
Highway to Heaven
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Climax!
Walter
Studio One
Will Sorrell
Studio One
Johnny Quigg
Studio One
Tom Kendall
Suspense
Ted Larson
Suspense
What's My Line?
Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
Bill Starbuck
Gunsmoke
Will Helmick
Gunsmoke
Lon Gorman
Gunsmoke
Joe Bascome
Gargoyles
G.F. Benton/Dominic Dracon (voice)
The Defenders
Howard Potter
The Defenders
Marty Wisnovsky
Route 66
Tales of the Unexpected
Sheriff Milt Singleton
The Hitchhiker
Old Man
Millennium
Henry Black