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Darren McGavin
0 FOLLOWERS • 57 CREDITS • MAY 7, 1922 - FEB 25, 2006 • 83
Biography
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.
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Known For
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Studio One
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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The X-Files
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Suspense
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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
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Burke's Law
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The Virginian
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Gunsmoke
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Route 66
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The Name of the Game
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Murder, She Wrote
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Dr. Kildare
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Robert Montgomery Presents
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The Philco Television Playhouse
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Fallen Angels
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The Love Boat
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What's My Line?
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The Hitchhiker
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Magnum, P.I.
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
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Touched by an Angel
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Climax!
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Mission: Impossible
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Omnibus
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Sisters
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The Defenders
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Murphy Brown
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Highway to Heaven
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Mannix
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The Match Game
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Bracken's World
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The Rogues
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Cimarron Strip
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The Alcoa Hour
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The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
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Tony Awards
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
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Mastergate
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Around the World in 80 Days
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The Natural
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Billy Madison
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Captain America
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Beau James
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A Christmas Story
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Chaney Vase
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The Martian Chronicles
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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The Outsider
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Small & Frye
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Law and Order
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
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The Rookies
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Riverboat
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