Every Christmas, television audiences are reminded of actor Darren McGavin thanks to his portrayal of "The Old Man" in the holiday perennial A Christmas Story (1983), and while that may be the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Darren McGavin was painting a movie set in 1945 when he learned of an opening for a small role in the show, climbed off his ladder, and returned through Columbia's front gates to land ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Darren McGavin, the tough-talking actor who starred in several TV series, played a grouchy father in the classic holiday movie "A Christmas Story" and had other strong roles in ...

"A Christmas Story," which started as a low-budget film that had a modest showing at the box office in 1983, is now an undisputed holiday classic and a must-watch for many families each season. The ...

LOS ANGELES - Darren McGavin was painting a movie set in 1945 when he learned of an opening for a small role in the show, climbed off his ladder and returned through Columbia's front gates to land the ...

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 ...

The holiday classic—which could have starred Jack Nicholson as The Old Man Parker—has cemented its legacy as a Christmas ...

In the 1983 comedy directed by Bob Clark, all 9-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB ...

The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The ...

James and William Goldman) shoots its best line in the title. In three acts, this small-bore saga of the peacetime army in the mid-’50s rarely hits a comic target that has not already been riddled in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Darren McGavin, the husky, tough-talking actor who starred in the TV series ''Mike Hammer,'' played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic ''A Christmas Story'' and had other strong ...