Remembering #DarrenMcGavin (1922-2006), the Emmy-winning American television, stage and film actor / director, born William Lyle Richardson in Washington #OnThisDay. His screen career spanned six decades, most successfully on TV, notably the title role in Mickey Spillane's #MikeHammer (1958-59), the father in Spielberg's CBS chiller #SomethingEvil (1972), Frank Black's father in #Millennium (1997) and Arthur Dales in #TheXFiles (1998-99)...

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58 years ago:
The Great Sioux Massacre (US)
Colonel Custer (Philip Carey), an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when a Senator Blaine (Don Haggerty) convinces him to run for President, Custer decides to upstage General Terry (Frank Ferguson) at Little B...
1965-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/131761
#TheGreatSiouxMassacre #JosephCotten #DarrenMcGavin #PhilipCarey #Columbia #Western #Movies

31 years ago:
Happy Hell Night (CA,US,YU)
25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...
1992-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/30519
#HappyHellNight #NickGregory #SamRockwell #DarrenMcGavin #Horror #ClassicMovies

Tonight in 1964 — “A Matter of Murder” debuted on THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR.

#TellySavalas and #DarrenMcGavin starred in this darkly comic tale of a stolen car and a dead wife.

#ClassicTV #OnThisDay #1960sTV #1960s #AlfredHitchock #Nostalgia

69 years ago today:
Suspense
S6E22: An Affair With a Ghost
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
Airdate: 1954-01-26
https://themoviedb.org/tv/18538/season/6/episode/22
#Suspense #DarrenMcGavin #CBS #ClassicTV #TV #Television #tvseries #tvshows

69 years ago today:
Suspense
S6E22: An Affair With a Ghost
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
Airdate: 1954-01-26
https://themoviedb.org/tv/18538/season/6/episode/22
#Suspense #DarrenMcGavin #CBS #ClassicTV #TV #Television #tvseries #tvshows

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) #Kolchak #DarrenMcGavin

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The Night Stalker!

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) #Kolchak #DarrenMcGavin

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One series I revisit whenever I can because it was so much fun watching it when I was a kid. Love the monsters, love the occasional touch of folklore, and LOVE Darren McGavin as the gutsy, dorky, clumsy reporter.

#KolchakTheNightStalker #DarrenMcGavin #TVSeries #1970s #ThrowbackThursday #Comedy #Drama #Horror #Foklore #Monsters

The Night Stalker (1972) ****

Newspaper reporter investigates what appears to be a vampire, but no one believes him. This is one of my favorite films and one of the best TV films of the 1970s.

#CultFilm #HorrorMovie #DarrenMcGavin

Kolchak:The Night Stalker S1 1974 Writer for independent News Service who can slay deadlines on a manual underwood AFTER he fills a rotten #zombie corpse’s mouth w salt n sews it shut in the back of not so big station wagon. #TheOldMan from #AChristmasStory is badass. Show is feels naturally #diverse w smart #women of all ages. Writing pacing and effects all hold up well enough. For me, an aspirational joy to watch #Kolchak #Fortean #DarrenMcGavin #spontaneousHumanCombustion #classictv #XFiles