Posted on 02/25/2006 2:50:35 PM PST by lunarbicep
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Darren McGavin at approximately 7:10 A.M. Pacific time today, Saturday 25, 2006. Darren was just three months short of his 84th birthday. While we suspect none of us can imagine a world without the beloved, feisty little red-head, it is time to reflect, give thanks for his life and hold in reverence his memory. Darren is gone, but in many respects he will always be with us: as Carl Kolchak, fighting authority and battling monsters; the grumpy Old Man sending curses over Lake Michigan; as David Ross, the outsider, Grey Holden, captain of the Enterprise, the irascible detective Mike Hammer or any number of memorable guest star appearances, most notably as Joe Bascome on GUNSMOKE and as the washed-up old actor from "Distant Signals."
Please take a moment in your sadness to reflect upon all the ways Darren touched your lives, say a prayer and raise a glass to toast a career which spanned over fifty years and affected us all in ways too numerous to count.
Holy cow, how many more blows can I take to my childhood memories today (with Don Knotts gone, too)??
Another sad loss.
I wonder who will be number three.
Just bought his Night Stalker series on DVD.
"FRA-GEE-LAY. Must be Italian."
yikes--actor deaths coming in twos. Don Knotts and now this. Darren was also "The Old Man" in the classic "A Christmas
Story" and was in a short-lived Disney-produced sitcom,
Small and Frye, in which his partner (named Frye, not Small)
could shrink to 6 inches tall...
THE NIGHT STALKER...THAT WAS A SHOW...THAT WAS A SHOW
Oh No. Ralphie's dad. :~ (
Another "Night Stalker" fan checking in to pay his respects...
Oh, I loved that!
And I loved him!
Dang; bad day in TV Land.
"He looks like a pink nightmare"
OK, that makes 2... they say it comes in threes... who else?
Wow... he was in his 60s in A Christmas Story?
He also played detective Mike Hammer on TV in the early 1960s.
He totally made "Kolchak" what it was. No one else could have done it.
Today's double loss reminds me of what pygmies there are providing "entertainment" these days.
Well done, Barney and Kolchak.
Two excellent actors from the days when television was worth watching.
RIP and thanks to both.
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