E very 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 ...

Do you watch Ralphie ask The Old Man for an air rifle every December? Darren McGavin (1922-2006), who starred as Ralphie’s dad in “A Christmas Story” (1983), was born 101 years ago today.

Darren McGavin, an Emmy-winning actor who worked almost constantly in television for almost 50 years and made an enduring mark on popular culture as the grizzled has-been crime reporter in the ...

This was a TV movie that ABC aired on Jan. 11, 1972. It starred Darren McGavin (later the Old Man in "A Christmas Story") as Carl Kolchak, a hard-nosed reporter who realizes that a Las Vegas ...

LOS ANGELES – Darren McGavin, the husky, tough-talking actor who starred in several TV series, played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” and had other strong roles in ...

For example, The Old Man receives a “major award” in ... In short, A Christmas Story wouldn’t be the same without McGavin. Darren McGavin played a father figure again in ‘Billy Madison ...

She married actor Darren McGavin in 1969 and ... A memorial service is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Old North Church at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.

Before “The X-Files” became the defining genre show of the Nineties, there was “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” with Darren McGavin as an eccentric newspaper reporter crossing paths with the ...

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 part.