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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Spokane, Washington, U.S., 1922-05-07

Died: 2006-02-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	A Song to Remember	Student (uncredited)	62
2	1945	She Wouldn't Say Yes	The Kid - Soldier in Hospital	59
3	1945	Your Next Job	Balancing hobbyist	0
4	1951	Queen for a Day	Dan	60
5	1955	A Word to the Wives...	George Peters	10
6	1955	Summertime	Eddie Yaeger	68
7	1955	The Man with the Golden Arm	Louie	72
8	1955	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	Capt. Russ Peters	68
9	1957	The Delicate Delinquent	Mike Damon	64
10	1957	Beau James	Charley Hand	57
11	1958	The Case Against Brooklyn	Pete Harris	58
12	1959	Disneyland '59	Self	65
13	1961	Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles	Fred	60
14	1964	Bullet for a Badman	Sam Ward	62
15	1965	The Great Sioux Massacre	Captain Frederick William Benton	42
16	1965	African Gold	Mike Gregory	0
17	1967	The Outsider	David Ross	60
18	1968	Mission Mars	Col. Mike Blaiswick	42
19	1968	Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents	Barney B. Duncan	0
20	1969	Anatomy of a Crime	David Ross	60
21	1970	The Challenge	Jacob Gallery	60
22	1970	The Challengers	Jim McCabe	50
23	1970	The 48-Hour Mile	David Ross	0
24	1970	Berlin Affair	Paul Killian	0
25	1970	Tribes	Drake	60
26	1971	Mrs. Pollifax — Spy	Farrell	61
27	1971	Banyon	Lieutenant Pete Cordova	0
28	1971	The Death of Me Yet	Joe Chalk	70
29	1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood	Darren McGavin (uncredited)	51
30	1972	Sam Cade		0
31	1972	The Night Stalker	Carl Kolchak	68
32	1972	Something Evil	Paul Worden	54
33	1972	The Rookies	Sgt. Eddie Ryker	60
34	1972	Here Comes the Judge	Judge	0
35	1972	Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole	Dr. Lou Grazzo	68
36	1972	43: The Richard Petty Story	Lee Petty	65
37	1973	The Night Strangler	Carl Kolchak	67
38	1973	The Six Million Dollar Man	Oliver Spencer	67
39	1975	Hay que matar a B.	Pal Kovak	40
40	1976	No Deposit, No Return	Duke	62
41	1976	Demon and the Mummy	Carl Kolchak	60
42	1976	Brinks: The Great Robbery	James McNally	0
43	1976	Crackle of Death	Carl Kolchak	60
44	1976	Law and Order	Deputy Chief Brian O'Malley	0
45	1977	Airport '77	Stan Buchek	56
46	1978	Zero to Sixty	Michael Nolan	42
47	1978	Hot Lead & Cold Feet	Mayor Ragsdale	60
48	1978	The Users	Henry Waller	10
49	1979	Donovan's Kid	Timothy Donovan	60
50	1979	Ike	Gen. George S. Patton	62
51	1979	Love for Rent	Coach John Martin	15
52	1980	Waikiki	Capt. McGuire	55
53	1980	Hangar 18	Harry Forbes	51
54	1981	Firebird 2015 A.D.	Red	27
55	1983	A Christmas Story	The Old Man	72
56	1984	The Natural	Gus Sands	69
57	1984	The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.	Dr. David Jennings	0
58	1984	The Baron and the Kid	Jack Beamer	0
59	1985	My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn	Dr. Gerrit Koets	0
60	1985	Turk 182!	Det. Kowalski	58
61	1986	Raw Deal	Chief Harry Shannon	58
62	1987	From the Hip	Craig Duncan	59
63	1987	Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson	A. Z. Nathan	68
64	1988	The Diamond Trap	Chief Walter Vadney	50
65	1988	Inherit the Wind	E.K. Hornbeck	79
66	1988	Dead Heat	Dr. Ernest McNab	61
67	1990	Kojak: It's Always Something	Wainwright	60
68	1990	Unclaimed Fortunes II	Host	0
69	1990	Child in the Night	Os Winfield	54
70	1990	By Dawn's Early Light	Condor	65
71	1990	Captain America	General Fleming	45
72	1991	Clara	Albert Kroll	0
73	1991	Perfect Harmony	Mr. Hobbs	61
74	1991	Blood and Concrete	Hank Dick	57
75	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	actor (archive footage) (uncredited)	77
76	1992	Happy Hell Night	Henry Collins	47
77	1992	Mastergate	Folsom Bunting	20
78	1993	The American Clock	Older Arthur Huntington	65
79	1994	Mysteries of the Ancient World		0
80	1994	A Perfect Stranger	John Henry Phillips	48
81	1995	Billy Madison	Brian Madison	62
82	1995	Derby	Lester Corbett	75
83	1997	Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas	Mr. Parker (archive footage)	52
84	1999	Pros & Cons	Mr. Stanford	30
85	2004	The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made	Red (archive footage)	46

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Bill Starbuck	60
2	1948	Studio One	Will Sorrell	47
3	1948	Studio One	Johnny Quigg	47
4	1948	Studio One	Tom Kendall	47
5	1949	Suspense	Ted Larson	47
6	1949	Suspense		47
7	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Joe Gillis	52
8	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	68
9	1951	Casey, Crime Photographer	Jack Casey	0
10	1951	Tales of Tomorrow		60
11	1952	Death Valley Days	Zacharias Gurney	64
12	1952	Omnibus		60
13	1954	Climax!	Walter	30
14	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	John Jay Forrest	76
15	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Timothy Donovan	76
16	1955	Gunsmoke	Will Helmick	66
17	1955	Gunsmoke	Lon Gorman	66
18	1955	Gunsmoke	Joe Bascome	66
19	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Red Hillman	77
20	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Lyle Endicott	77
21	1955	The Alcoa Hour		40
22	1958	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer		66
23	1959	Rawhide	Jed Hadley	72
24	1959	Riverboat	Captain Grey Holden	62
25	1960	The Islanders	Phil	80
26	1960	Stagecoach West		60
27	1960	Route 66		63
28	1961	The Defenders	Howard Potter	62
29	1961	The Defenders	Marty Wisnovsky	62
30	1961	Dr. Kildare	Prof. Felix Holman	53
31	1961	Ben Casey		56
32	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
33	1962	The Virginian	Mark Troxel	64
34	1962	The Virginian	Sam Evans	64
35	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Sheridan Westcott	78
36	1962	The Match Game	Self	78
37	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		55
38	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Franklin Carson	55
39	1964	The Rogues	Amos Champion	72
40	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.		72
41	1966	Felony Squad		64
42	1966	Mission: Impossible	J. Richard Taggart	76
43	1967	Custer		60
44	1967	Cimarron Strip		50
45	1967	Mannix	Mark	67
46	1968	The Outsider	David Ross	52
47	1968	The Name of the Game	Jesse Gil McCray	68
48	1968	The Name of the Game	Sam Hardy	68
49	1968	The Name of the Game	Eddie Gannon	68
50	1969	Bracken's World		50
51	1969	The Bold Ones: The Lawyers		30
52	1969	Love, American Style	Corbett	60
53	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
54	1971	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	McClain	63
55	1973	Police Story		69
56	1973	The Evil Touch		55
57	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
58	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Carl Kolchak	76
59	1977	The Love Boat	Lawrence Evans	63
60	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Sheriff Milt Singleton	67
61	1979	Ike	Gen. George S. Patton	65
62	1980	The Martian Chronicles	Sam Parkhill	69
63	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Buck Gibson	72
64	1983	Small & Frye		45
65	1983	The Hitchhiker	Old Man	61
66	1984	Highway to Heaven		74
67	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Martin Tremaine	75
68	1984	Tales from the Darkside	Van Conway	72
69	1988	Monsters		70
70	1988	Murphy Brown	Bill Brown	64
71	1989	Around the World in 80 Days	Benjamin Mudge	66
72	1991	Sisters		73
73	1991	The Commish		71
74	1991	Civil Wars		20
75	1993	Fallen Angels	Old Man	55
76	1993	The X-Files	Agent Arthur Dales	84
77	1993	Grace Under Fire		55
78	1994	Burke's Law	Conrad Hill	67
79	1994	Touched by an Angel	George Zarko	72
80	1994	Gargoyles		81
81	1996	Millennium	Henry Black	77
82	2005	Night Stalker		51