
Darren McGavin
ActingAlso Known As
W. Lyle Richardson , William Lyle Richardson, دارن مکگاوین
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.
Movies
(86 total)
Billy Madison
as Brian Madison

A Christmas Story
as The Old Man

Raw Deal
as Chief Harry Shannon

The Natural
as Gus Sands (uncredited)

Captain America
as General Fleming

Airport '77
as Stan Buchek

Dead Heat
as Dr. Ernest McNab

Summertime
as Eddie Yaeger

The Night Stalker
as Carl Kolchak

No Deposit, No Return
as Duke

The Six Million Dollar Man
as Oliver Spencer

The Night Strangler
as Carl Kolchak

Hangar 18
as Harry Forbes

Turk 182!
as Det. Kowalski

By Dawn's Early Light
as Condor

Something Evil
as Paul Worden

From the Hip
as Craig Duncan

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Capt. Russ Peters

Happy Hell Night
as Henry Collins
TV Shows
(83 total)
The X-Files
as Agent Arthur Dales

Gargoyles
as G.F. Benton/Dominic Dracon (voice)

Magnum, P.I.
as Buck Gibson

Murder, She Wrote
as Martin Tremaine

Mission: Impossible
as J. Richard Taggart

Millennium
as Henry Black

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Red Hillman

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Lyle Endicott

The Love Boat
as Lawrence Evans

Touched by an Angel
as George Zarko

Gunsmoke
as Will Helmick

Gunsmoke
as Lon Gorman

Gunsmoke
as Joe Bascome

Tales from the Darkside
as Van Conway

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Carl Kolchak

Around the World in 80 Days
as Benjamin Mudge

Murphy Brown
as Bill Brown

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Sheridan Westcott

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Viktor Karmak

