
Darren McGavin
Birthday: 1922-05-07 | Place of Birth: Spokane, Washington, U.S.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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as General Fleming
as Brian Madison
as John Henry Phillips
as Henry Collins
as Hank Dick
as Mr. Hobbs
as Condor
as General Fleming
as Os Winfield
as Wainwright
as Benjamin Mudge
as Chief Walter Vadney
as Dr. Ernest McNab
as E.K. Hornbeck
as A. Z. Nathan
as Chief Harry Shannon
as Det. Kowalski
as Dr. David Jennings
as Gus Sands
as The Old Man
as Red
as Capt. McGuire
as Harry Forbes
as Sam Parkhill