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
Billy Madison
Brian Madison
A Christmas Story
The Old Man
Raw Deal
Harry Shannon
The Natural
Gus Sands (uncredited)
Gargoyles
G.F. Benton/Dominic Dracon (voice)
Captain America
General Fleming
Murder, She Wrote
Martin Tremaine
Magnum, P.I.
Buck Gibson
Airport '77
Stan Buchek
Mission: Impossible
J. Richard Taggart
Millennium
Henry Black
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Red Hillman
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Lyle Endicott
The Man with the Golden Arm
Louie
Dead Heat
Dr. Ernest McNab
Highway to Heaven
The Love Boat
Lawrence Evans
Touched by an Angel
George Zarko
Summertime
Eddie Yaeger
The Night Stalker
Carl Kolchak
Gunsmoke
Will Helmick
Gunsmoke
Lon Gorman
Gunsmoke
Joe Bascome
Tales from the Darkside
Van Conway
Murphy Brown
Bill Brown
No Deposit, No Return
Duke
The Six Million Dollar Man
Oliver Spencer
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Carl Kolchak
Around the World in 80 Days
Benjamin Mudge
The Night Strangler
Carl Kolchak
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Sheridan Westcott
Hangar 18
Harry Forbes
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Viktor Karmak
By Dawn's Early Light
Condor
Turk 182!
Det. Kowalski
Something Evil
Paul Worden
Mannix
Mark
Tales of the Unexpected
Sheriff Milt Singleton
The Martian Chronicles
Sam Parkhill