Darren McGavin
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3865 |
| Birthday | 1922-05-07 |
| Place of Birth | Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
| Also Known As | W. Lyle Richardson , William Lyle Richardson, دارن مکگاوین, |
1955
The Man with the Golden Arm
7.134/262
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old d...
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1986
Raw Deal
5.852/939
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief H...
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Raw Deal
1983
A Christmas Story
7.2/1465
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is t...
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A Christmas Story
1999
Pros & Cons
3.6/5
Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case...
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Pros & Cons
1995
Billy Madison
6.175/1866
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his fath...
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Billy Madison
1976
No Deposit, No Return
6.3/93
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of th...
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No Deposit, No Return
1990
By Dawn's Early Light
6.507/70
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race...
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By Dawn's Early Light
1991
Happy Hell Night
4.9/37
25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same f...
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Happy Hell Night
1987
From the Hip
5.904/47
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a p...
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From the Hip
1977
Airport '77
5.604/342
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletio...
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Airport '77
1973
The Night Strangler
6.7/85
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on...
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The Night Strangler
1985
Turk 182!
5.935/69
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, h...
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Turk 182!
1988
Dead Heat
6.2/241
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical...
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Dead Heat
1978
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
5.9/36
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1990
Captain America
4.5/468
During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to s...
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Captain America
1991
Clara
8/1
Dramatizes a father’s repressed psyche and hidden prejudices at the scene of his daughter’s murder.
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Clara
1972
The Night Stalker
6.898/137
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy a...
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The Night Stalker
1958
The Case Against Brooklyn
6.143/14
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
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The Case Against Brooklyn
1957
The Delicate Delinquent
6.438/40
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney wor...
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The Delicate Delinquent
1972
Here Comes the Judge
7/1
A widowed judge tries to balance the trials of his occupation along with those of his family life.
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Here Comes the Judge
1970
The Challenge
7/4
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single s...
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The Challenge
1973
The Six Million Dollar Man
6.69/92
Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (O...
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The Six Million Dollar Man
1997
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
5.833/6
Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlighten...
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Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
1955
Summertime
6.72/173
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she doe...
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Summertime
1984
The Baron and the Kid
8/1
Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whose reunion with his long-lost son (Greg Webb) sets...
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The Baron and the Kid
1980
Hangar 18
5.2/83
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizo...
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Hangar 18
1972
Something Evil
5.4/60
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants...
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Something Evil
1991
Blood and Concrete
5.661/28
A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new hor...
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Blood and Concrete
1970
Tribes
6.2/10
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been dr...
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Tribes
1968
Mission Mars
4.7/7
Three American astronauts who land on Mars discover the body of a frozen Russian cosmonaut and a mysterious talking orb.
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Mission Mars
1945
She Wouldn't Say Yes
6.417/6
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with wa...
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
1991
Perfect Harmony
6.15/10
During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain?
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Perfect Harmony
1964
Bullet for a Badman
6.3/23
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
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Bullet for a Badman
1985
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
4.25/2
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1955
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
6.823/48
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial figh...
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1990
Child in the Night
5.6/18
Traumatized after seeing his father brutally murdered by a hook wielding assailant, young Luke is tasked to help unmask the killer.
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Child in the Night
1975
B. Must Die
4.5/8
In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the re...
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B. Must Die
1971
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
6.3/9
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and...
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Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1995
Derby
7.333/3
Katie once left her parent's horse ranch behind her. Now, when her father is sick Katie has to return to the farm. She meets Cass, now a grown man who...
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Derby
1988
The Diamond Trap
6/3
When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go...
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The Diamond Trap
1972
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
7.1/7
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There,...
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1994
A Perfect Stranger
4.867/15
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who...
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A Perfect Stranger
1971
The Death of Me Yet
7.5/4
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has...
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The Death of Me Yet
1972
The Rookies
7/2
Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired a...
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The Rookies
1981
Firebird 2015 A.D.
3.3/9
In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overus...
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Firebird 2015 A.D.
1988
Inherit the Wind
7.3/11
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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Inherit the Wind
1993
The American Clock
5.667/6
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market cra...
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The American Clock
1994
Mysteries of the Ancient World
8/1
A CBS primetime docudrama special, hosted by Darren McGavin, discussing ancient mysteries surrounding the Pyramids of Eqypt, Nostradamus, the Bermuda...
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Mysteries of the Ancient World
1990
Unclaimed Fortunes II
0/0
A look at the mysterious circumstances involving abandoned property in America.
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Unclaimed Fortunes II
1978
Zero to Sixty
4.625/8
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
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Zero to Sixty
1970
The Challengers
7/2
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
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The Challengers
1965
The Great Sioux Massacre
4.545/11
Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when a...
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The Great Sioux Massacre
1972
43: The Richard Petty Story
6.714/7
The story of how Petty Enterprises started and how Richard Petty became "The King" as told from his father Lee's point of view.
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43: The Richard Petty Story
1968
Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents
0/0
Conman Barney continually sells his dog, who then runs back to his owner.
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Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents
1967
The Outsider
8/2
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies sta...
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The Outsider
1955
A Word to the Wives...
1/2
The story of two women and how they trick a husband into renovating a kitchen.
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A Word to the Wives...
1970
Berlin Affair
10/1
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.
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Berlin Affair
1979
Ike
6.833/3
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...
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Ike
1961
Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
6/1
Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her one true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set e...
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Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
1992
Mastergate
6.333/3
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...
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Mastergate
1979
Donovan's Kid
7.5/2
Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering...
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Donovan's Kid
1980
Waikiki
5.25/4
A couple of private eyes, a laid-back Californian and a streetwise New Yorker, team up to track down a killer in Hawaii known as "The Cane Field Murde...
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Waikiki
1957
Beau James
5.4/5
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
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Beau James
1969
Anatomy of a Crime
6.5/2
Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a...
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Anatomy of a Crime
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
8/7
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1971
Banyon
9/1
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon'...
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Banyon
1945
Your Next Job
0/0
In this documentary short film, a U.S. Army lieutenant instructs soldiers in how to prepare for new and interesting jobs in civilian life after the wa...
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Your Next Job
1945
A Song to Remember
6.469/32
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, wher...
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A Song to Remember
1976
Brinks: The Great Robbery
10/1
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme polic...
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Brinks: The Great Robbery
1976
Crackle of Death
7.5/2
The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an a...
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Crackle of Death
1971
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
4.8/11
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1990
Kojak: It's Always Something
6.667/3
After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prose...
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Kojak: It's Always Something
1959
Disneyland '59
7.333/3
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disn...
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Disneyland '59
1976
Law and Order
8/1
Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
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Law and Order
1972
Sam Cade
0/0
Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day s...
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Sam Cade
1979
Love for Rent
3.5/4
Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.
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Love for Rent
1965
African Gold
7/1
The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
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African Gold
1978
The Users
4/3
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into th...
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The Users
1951
Queen for a Day
7.5/2
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this m...
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Queen for a Day
1976
Demon and the Mummy
6/1
The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus...
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Demon and the Mummy
1984
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
9/1
Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in...
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The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1970
The 48-Hour Mile
10/1
An unusual assignment for a private investigator involves two women who are in love with the same man.
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The 48-Hour Mile
1987
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
7.4/5
In the 1930s, an aging film producer and his much younger wife live separate lives. Whenever a young starlet catches the husband's eye, he eventually...
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Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1984
The Natural
6.925/692
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea...
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The Natural
1996
Small Time
6/5
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders h...
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