Sunday, February 26, 2006

Darren McGavin 1922-2006

Within hours of losing Don Knotts, another great actor left this earthly realm: Darren McGavin. Which has a tinge of irony to it because in 1976 McGavin and Knotts starred together in Disney's No Deposit, No Return:
From Kolchak: The Night Stalker, detective Mike Hammer, later on he had a memorable appearance in an episode of The X-Files, to many, many roles over the years, McGavin did it all.

But what he'll forever be best known for, at least to people of my generation, will be playing Ralphie's dad in 1983's A Christmas Story...


"It's a major award!"

And Kolchak was a pretty darned good character too!

at February 26, 2006

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous12:03 PM, July 17, 2008

    Darren McGavin was one of the ALL TIME GREATS. I loved most everything I ever saw him perform in.

    His character in the XFiles was awesome & I never get tired of a Christmas Story.

    Kolchak used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid. (and I don't even like or enjoy horror TV/movies-- but McGavin made it enjoyable to me)-- Duchovny/Mulder owed an awful lot to Kolchak.

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