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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
Studio One
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The X-Files
Suspense
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Burke's Law
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Defenders
The Virginian
Gunsmoke
Route 66
Murder, She Wrote
Dr. Kildare
Robert Montgomery Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Philco Television Playhouse
What's My Line?
The Hitchhiker
Magnum, P.I.
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Touched by an Angel
Climax!
Mission: Impossible
Omnibus
Sisters
Murphy Brown
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Highway to Heaven
The Match Game
Mannix
The Name of the Game
The Rogues
Cimarron Strip
The Alcoa Hour
Tony Awards
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Mastergate
Around the World in 80 Days
The Natural
Captain America
Beau James
Billy Madison
A Christmas Story
The Martian Chronicles
Law and Order
Bracken's World
The Rookies
The Outsider
Riverboat
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Small & Frye
Production Credits
Riverboat
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