Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin ( born May 7, 1922 in San Joaquin, California as William Lyle Robertson, † 25 February 2006 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actor.
Life
McGavin received his acting training at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio in New York. Already in 1945 he was in Charles Vidor's A Song to Remember his film debut. Almost ten years he played more or less small roles until a part in Otto Preminger's drama The Man with the Golden Arm, was awarded an Oscar for Frank Sinatra, the acting breakthrough brought him. In the same year he played a second time, directed by Preminger - in the war drama Damn silenced. In the following years McGavin portrayed often tough, uncompromising characters, such as Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer in an eponymous television series, such as in Western decision on Big Horn or as a former convict and private investigator David Ross in the television series The Loner. Special gained fame McGavin for his role as an upright journalist and vampire hunter Carl Kolchak in the horror series The night hunters to its X-Files, among others Chris Carter - inspired The Files in the McGavin therefore also in some episodes as Arthur Dales to see was - as the man who started the recording of the X-Files.
In addition, McGavin played in the disaster film Lost in the Bermuda Triangle, in the Ray Bradbury adaptation of the Martian Chronicles, in the action movie The City Hai opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and the three-piece Around the World in 80 Days with Pierce Brosnan. In addition, he completed numerous guest appearances in television series such as Solo for Oncel, Gunsmoke, The Love Boat, or as a mentor of Candice Bergen in Murphy Brown, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1990.
Darren McGavin was married from 1969 to 2003 with his fellow actress Kathie Browne ( 1930-2003 ).