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...
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
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Triggers in Leash (TV)
1955 · Movie · 24 min. · United States
Direction Don Medford
Cast Gene Barry · Darren McGavin · Ellen Corby · Casey MacGregor
6.1
289 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
Direction Bob Clark
Cast Timothy Hutton · Robert Urich · Kim Cattrall · Robert Culp
5.7
153 votes
5.7
153 votes
Shaft (TV Series)
1973 · Series · 73 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Colasanto · Harry Harris · John Llewellyn Moxey · Alexander Singer
Cast Richard Roundtree · Eddie Barth · Judie Stein · Barbara Babcock
5.6
37 votes
5.6
37 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