The Night Stalker 1972

Darren McGavin / Kolchek: The Night Stalker William Lyle Richardson, who adopted the name Darren McGavin, was an actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and also his portrayal in the movie A Christmas Story of the 'Old Man' (Ralphie's father). He also appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the TV series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. McGavin was born in Spokane, Washington, to Reid Delano Richardson and Grace McGavin.

In magazine interviews during the 1960s, he stated that his parents divorced when he was very young and that his father, not knowing what else to do, put him in an orphanage at the age of eleven. McGavin began to run away, often sleeping on the docks and in warehouses.

He ended up in three orphanages. The last one was a boy's home, which turned out to be a safe haven for McGavin. He lived there for a few years where there were farm chores assigned, along with several other boys who were abandoned like himself.

McGavin said that the owners of the home helped him to establish a sense of pride and responsibility, and that this helped to turn his life around. He spent a year at College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., taking part in dramatics, then landed in Los Angeles. He washed dishes and was hired to paint sets at Columbia studio. Patch Ttsystem 9 06108 there. He was working on 'A Song to Remember' when an agent told him of an opening for a small role. 'I climbed off a painter's ladder and washed up at a nearby gas station,' McGavin said.

'I returned through Columbia's front gate with the agent.' The director, Charles Vidor, hired him. No one recognized him but the paint foreman, who said, 'You're fired.' Getting to New York, McGavin studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio and began working in live TV drama and on Broadway appearing with Charlton Heston in a TV Macbeth and acting the role of son Happy in Death of a Salesman in New York and on the road. The husky, tough-talking performer went on to become one of the busiest actors in television and film, starring in five TV series, including Mike Hammer (in the 1950s), Riverboat and cult favorite Kolchak: The Night Stalkerand endearing holiday audiences with his role as the grouchy dad in the 1983 comedy classic 'A Christmas Story.' Despite his busy career in television, McGavin was awarded only one Emmy: in 1990 for an appearance as Candice Bergen's opinionated father in an episode of 'Murphy Brown.' He lacked the prominence in films he enjoyed in television, but he registered strongly in featured roles such as the young artist in Venice in Summertime David Lean's 1955 film with Katharine Hepburn and Rosanno Brazzi; Frank Sinatra's crafty drug supplier in 'The Man with the Golden Arm' (1955); Jerry Lewis's parole officer in The Delicate Delinquent (1957); and the gambler in 1984's The Natural.

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He also starred alongside Don Knotts in the 1976 family comedy No Deposit, No Return. The Versatile movie and TV actor died Saturday, February 25, 2006 of natural causes at a Los Angeles-area hospital. Krautkramer Manual.

His family at his side. McGavin is survived by his four children York, Megan, Bridget and Bogart from a previous marriage to Melanie York McGavin. His second wife of over thirty years, actress Kathie Browne, died in 2003. Darren & Kathie McGavin Darren McGavin was buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, Section 7, Lot 203, Grave 14. Manual Pentru Autorizarea Electricienilor Instalatori Pret here. Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a television series that aired on ABC in 1974.