Darren McGavin

Darren McGavin

Personal

Born

May 7, 1922

Hallmark Career

Films

1

Lead roles

1

Years active

2022–2022

Darren McGavin has worked on 1 Hallmark Channel original movie. Of these, 1 was in a lead role.

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.

Hallmark Filmography

Lead roles are shown in bold.