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Darren McGavin
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Was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears. 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.
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Was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears. 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
Gunsmoke
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Name of the Game
The X-Files
Suspense
Studio One
Burke's Law
The Virginian
Murder, She Wrote
Dr. Kildare
Route 66
Robert Montgomery Presents
Omnibus
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Philco Television Playhouse
Fallen Angels
The Wonderful World of Disney
Rawhide
The Love Boat
What's My Line?
The Hitchhiker
Magnum, P.I.
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Touched by an Angel
Climax!
Mission: Impossible
Police Story
Sisters
The Defenders
Murphy Brown
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Highway to Heaven
The Match Game
Mannix
Bracken's World
The Rogues
Cimarron Strip
The Alcoa Hour
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Tony Awards
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Mastergate
Around the World in 80 Days
The Natural
Billy Madison
Beau James
Captain America
The Martian Chronicles
A Christmas Story
The Delicate Delinquent
The Rookies
Law and Order
Riverboat
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
The Outsider
Small & Frye
Production Credits
Riverboat
Buckskin
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