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

Synopsis 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 addiction.

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

Synopsis 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 -- and is waging an all-out campaign to convince his reluctant...

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

Synopsis 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 "independent type" who's content, or so she claims, to go...

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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

Synopsis 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 something about it. Not knowing who can be trusted on...

6.7

24 votes

6.7

24 votes

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

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 on a "skirt" to get the case solved.

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

Synopsis 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 America's armed forces still think of the airplane as little...

6.3

476 votes

6.3

476 votes

Direction Robert Stevens

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

Synopsis 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 museum.

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

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

6.1

191 votes

6.1

191 votes

Hay que matar a B.

1975 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction José Luis Borau

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

Synopsis 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 private trucker Pal can't afford to strike -- so he's...

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

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

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Direction Michael Anderson

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

Synopsis 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 with another species"The Martian Chronicles" is a stunning achievement that...

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

Synopsis 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 the same year in which Monsters began). It differed in...

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

Synopsis 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 a limited nuclear exchange.

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes