Cast: Darren McGavin

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Darren McGavin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Man With the Golden Arm

1955 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Frank Sinatra · Eleanor Parker · Kim Novak · Arnold Stang

Plot Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into...

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

A Christmas Story

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Bob Clark

Cast Melinda Dillon · Darren McGavin · Peter Billingsley · Ian Petrella

Plot Humorist Jean Shepard's vignette-laden, nostalgic view of Christmastime in Indiana during the 1940s. The main story involves nine-year-old Ralphie, who desperately wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas --...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Summertime

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Rossano Brazzi · Darren McGavin · Jane Rose

Plot Jane Hudson, a jaunty as well as attractive middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, has finally made it to Venice, Italy, for her long-awaited dream vacation. Never-married Jane is a self-described...

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6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Case Against Brooklyn

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Darren McGavin · Margaret Hayes · Warren Stevens · Peggy McCay

Plot When a reporter claims that New York police are on the take letting the mob run its horse parlors at will, a shocked District Attorney Michael Norris decide to do...

6.7

24 votes

6.7

24 votes

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Allen Baron · Alexander Grasshoff · Don McDougall

Cast Darren McGavin · Simon Oakland · Jack Grinnage · Ruth McDevitt

Plot A newspaper reporter investigates strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago.

6.6

98 votes

6.6

98 votes

Mike Hammer (TV Series)

1956 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Richard Irving · William Witney · John English

Cast Darren McGavin · Bart Burns · Vito Scotti · Johnny Seven

Plot TV Series (1956-1959) 78 episodes. The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm...

6.5

28 votes

6.5

28 votes

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Bickford · Ralph Bellamy · Rod Steiger

Plot The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of...

6.3

476 votes

6.3

476 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase (TV)

1955 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Patricia Collinge · Darren McGavin · Carolyn Jones · George Macready

Plot When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the...

6.2

103 votes

6.2

103 votes

Ike (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 291 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Melville Shavelson

Cast Robert Duvall · Lee Remick · Dana Andrews · Stephen Roberts

Plot Made-for-TV biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

6.2

122 votes

6.2

122 votes

Inherit the Wind (TV)

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jason Robards · Darren McGavin · John Harkins

Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

The Night Strangler (TV)

1973 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Dan Curtis

Cast Darren McGavin · Jo Ann Pflug · Simon Oakland · Scott Brady

Plot A reporter hunts down a 100-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

6.1

132 votes

6.1

132 votes

The Night Stalker (TV)

1972 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast Darren McGavin · Carol Lynley · Simon Oakland · Ralph Meeker

Plot An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

6.1

191 votes

6.1

191 votes

6.1

289 votes

Hay que matar a B.

1975 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction José Luis Borau

Cast Darren McGavin · Stéphane Audran · Patricia Neal · Burgess Meredith

Plot In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However...

6.0

520 votes

6.0

520 votes

Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner · Don Medford · Charles S. Dubin · Leonard Valenta

Cast Leslie Nielsen · Theo Goetz · Olive Deering · Bruce Cabot

Plot TV Series (1951–1953). Anthology series featuring both classic and modern sci-fi themes.

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

The Martian Chronicles (TV Miniseries)

1980 · Series · 360 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Rock Hudson · Gayle Hunnicutt · Bernie Casey · Christopher Connelly

Plot From the mind of science-fiction giant Ray Bradbury springs what is perhaps his most epic vision. Capturing mankind's first venture into the colonization of another planetand its tragic first contact...

6.0

231 votes

6.0

231 votes

Monsters (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ernest D. Farino · Bette Gordon · Jeffrey Wolf · Gerald Cotts

Cast John Bolger · Pamela Dean Kelly · John Saxon · Lisa Waltz

Plot A horror anthology show in a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, it shared the same producer, Richard Rubenstein, and in some ways succeeded the show (which had ended...

5.8

42 votes

5.8

42 votes

Turk 182!

1985 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

5.7

153 votes

5.7

153 votes

By Dawn's Early Light (TV)

1990 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sholder

Cast Powers Boothe · Rebecca De Mornay · James Earl Jones · Martin Landau

Plot The crew of a nuclear bomber attack the Soviet Union while the President of the United States tries desperately to regain control of his military after his helicopter crashes during...

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes