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Acting

Darren McGavin

Career: Active from 1945 to 1996, busiest in 1972 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 53
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 90 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Darren McGavin Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Coming of Age
2.2, average 3.0
Psychological
4.8, average 5.5
Family Dynamics
4.1, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Fast-Paced 5
Character-Driven 5
Political Intrigue 4
Moral Ambiguity 4
Social Commentary 4
Tension 3
Supernatural Crime 3
Historical Drama 3
Private Investigator 3
Sentimental 3
Intrigue 2
1970s Horror 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

151

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 43

Night Stalker

43

TV show

1990s

29 titles · average score 58

Billy Madison

47

as Brian Madison

A Perfect Stranger

55

as John Henry Phillips

Mysteries of the Ancient World

as Narrator

Touched by an Angel

44

TV show · as George Zarko

The X-Files

76

TV show · as Agent Arthur Dales

Blood and Concrete

55

as Hank Dick

Perfect Harmony

75

as Mr. Hobbs

Happy Hell Night

44

as Henry Collins

as Albert Kroll

Captain America

25

as General Fleming

By Dawn's Early Light

69

as Condor

Kojak: It's Always Something

67

as Wainwright

1980s

26 titles · average score 60

Inherit the Wind

69

as E.K. Hornbeck

Dead Heat

34

as Dr. Ernest McNab

The Diamond Trap

56

as Chief Walter Vadney

Raw Deal

45

as Harry Shannon

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Dr. David Jennings

The Baron and the Kid

68

as Jack Beamer

A Christmas Story

79

as The Old Man

Small & Frye

TV show

Firebird 2015 A.D.

39

as Red

The Martian Chronicles

68

TV show · as Sam Parkhill

Hangar 18

42

as Harry Forbes

Magnum, P.I.

82

TV show · as Buck Gibson

1970s

38 titles · average score 64

Airport '77

48

as Stan Buchek

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Lawrence Evans

Brinks: The Great Robbery

as James McNally

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

90

TV show · as Carl Kolchak

The Night Strangler

87

as Carl Kolchak

The Evil Touch

TV show · as Alvin Hazeltine

Happy Mother's Day, Love George

59

Director

The Night Stalker

80

as Carl Kolchak

Something Evil

43

as Paul Worden

Banyon

as Lieutenant Pete Cordova

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

52

as Farrell

Tribes

68

as Drake

1960s

30 titles · average score 64

Anatomy of a Crime

as David Ross

Love, American Style

43

TV show · as Corbett

The Outsider

TV show · as David Ross

Mission Mars

44

as Col. Mike Blaiswick

The Outsider

as David Ross

Mannix

71

TV show · as Mark

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as J. Richard Taggart

The Great Sioux Massacre

43

as Captain Frederick William Benton

Bullet for a Badman

62

as Sam Ward

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Sheridan Westcott

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Sam Evans / Mark Troxel

Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles

as Fred

1950s

21 titles · average score 66

Riverboat

46

TV show · as Captain Grey Holden

Rawhide

50

TV show · as Jed Hadley

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

74

TV show · as Mike Hammer

The Case Against Brooklyn

51

as Pete Harris

The Delicate Delinquent

60

as Mike Damon

Beau James

60

as Charley Hand

The Man with the Golden Arm

73

as Louie

Summertime

82

as Eddie Yaeger

A Word to the Wives...

as George Peters

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Lyle Endicott / Red Hillman

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Joe Bascome / Lon Gorman

Casey, Crime Photographer

TV show · as Jack Casey

1940s

6 titles · average score 61

Suspense

62

TV show · as Ted Larson

Studio One

65

TV show · as Will Sorrell / Johnny Quigg

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show · as Bill Starbuck

A Song to Remember

61

as Student (uncredited)

She Wouldn't Say Yes

58

as The Kid - Soldier in Hospital (uncredited)

as Balancing hobbyist