Darren McGavin
Acting
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.
Born: May 7, 1922
Place of Birth: Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Known For
The X-Files
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
The Match Game
In this panel game show, contestants try to match answers given by six celebrities to humorous and often risque fill-in-the-blank questions.
Gargoyles
In Scotland, 994 A.D. Goliath and his clan of gargoyles defend a medieval castle. In present day, David Xanatos buys the castle and moves it to New York City. When the castle is attacked the gargoyles are awakened from a 1000 year curse.
The Islanders
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
Inherit the Wind
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Filmography
as Mr. Stanford
as Mr. Parker (archive footage)
as Sam
as Henry Black
as Lester Corbett
as Brian Madison
as G.F. Benton/Dominic Dracon (voice)
as George Zarko
as John Henry Phillips
as Conrad Hill
as Grace's Dad
as Agent Arthur Dales
as Old Man
as Older Arthur Huntington
as Folsom Bunting
as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Henry Collins
as Hank Dick
as Mr. Hobbs
as General Fleming
as Condor
as Os Winfield
as Wainwright
as Benjamin Mudge
as Chief Walter Vadney
as Bill Brown
as Dr. Ernest McNab
as E.K. Hornbeck
as A. Z. Nathan
as Craig Duncan
as Chief Harry Shannon
as Det. Kowalski
as Dr. Gerrit Koets
as Jack Beamer
as Martin Tremaine
as Van Conway
as Dr. David Jennings
as Gus Sands (uncredited)
as Old Man
as The Old Man
as Red
as Buck Gibson
as Harry Forbes
as Capt. McGuire
as Sam Parkhill
as Sam Parkhill
as Coach John Martin
as Gen. George S. Patton
as Gen. George S. Patton
as Sheriff Milt Singleton
as Timothy Donovan
as Henry Waller
as Mayor Ragsdale
as Michael Nolan
as Lawrence Evans
as Stan Buchek
as Deputy Chief Brian O'Malley
as Carl Kolchak
as James McNally
as Carl Kolchak
as Duke
as Pal Kovak
as Carl Kolchak
as Oliver Spencer
as Carl Kolchak
as Lee Petty
as Dr. Lou Grazzo
as Sgt. Eddie Ryker
as Paul Worden
as Carl Kolchak
as Darren McGavin (uncredited)
as Joe Chalk
as McClain
as Self
as Lieutenant Pete Cordova
as Farrell
as Drake
as Paul Killian
as David Ross
as Jim McCabe
as Jacob Gallery
as Corbett
as David Ross
as Barney B. Duncan
as Jesse Gil McCray
as Sam Hardy
as Eddie Gannon
as David Ross
as Col. Mike Blaiswick
as David Ross
as Mark
as J. Richard Taggart
as Mike Gregory
as Captain Frederick William Benton
as Viktor Karmak
as Amos Champion
as Sam Ward
as Self
as Sheridan Westcott
as Mark Troxel
as Sam Evans
as Self
as Prof. Felix Holman
as Howard Potter
as Marty Wisnovsky
as Phil
as Captain Grey Holden
as Self
as Jed Hadley
as Pete Harris
as Mike Hammer
as Charley Hand
as Mike Damon
as Self - Presenter
as Capt. Russ Peters
as Louie
as Red Hillman
as Lyle Endicott
as Will Helmick
as Lon Gorman
as Joe Bascome
as Eddie Yaeger
as George Peters
as John Jay Forrest
as Timothy Donovan
as Walter
as Zacharias Gurney
as Dan
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Joe Gillis
as Ted Larson
as Will Sorrell
as Johnny Quigg
as Tom Kendall
as Bill Starbuck
as The Kid - Soldier in Hospital (uncredited)
as Student (uncredited)