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actor Darren McGavin has died
http://www.darrenmcgavin.net/ ^ | February 25, 2006

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.


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To: yield 2 the right

Nice picture


61 posted on 02/25/2006 3:07:15 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: lunarbicep

I Loved him in the RIVERBOAT TV Series


62 posted on 02/25/2006 3:07:58 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: latina4dubya

Ping


63 posted on 02/25/2006 3:08:12 PM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: lunarbicep

64 posted on 02/25/2006 3:09:07 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: southernnorthcarolina
How did that "they come in threes" superstition ever get started?

The Crimean War, I believe. It's a variation of "three on a match," which was supposedly unlucky because it gave snipers time to focus on and shoot English soldiers.

65 posted on 02/25/2006 3:09:10 PM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
"Today's double loss reminds me of what pygmies there are providing "entertainment" these days."

Amen to that. The people who call themselves actors today can't hold a candle to the likes of these guys.

66 posted on 02/25/2006 3:09:42 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: yarddog
Two great actors that made TV worthwhile while I was young.

It is a sad day; not only the loss of these two gentlemen but my youth is slipping away much too fast.

67 posted on 02/25/2006 3:10:39 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: raccoonradio
Sometimes I sing "fa ra ra ra ra" to myself when I enter a Chinese restaurant.

LOL...Ive caught myself doing that....

At least you don't sing "Jingle Berrs, jingle berrs, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open SRAY."

68 posted on 02/25/2006 3:10:48 PM PST by DCBryan1 ( MI: "Always Out Front!")
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To: lunarbicep

As everyone else here, I am sad to hear of the death of this wonderful actor...'A Christmas Story', is my favorite Christmas movie...we always have it on one of our TVs for the whole 24 hrs run from Christmas Eve, through Christmas Day...that way anyone, can, at anytime, stroll to the TV, and watch this magical movie...

The Night Stalker was great..I always watch it in reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel...now with him gone, I suppose they will run all the episodes again, kind of like an 'In Memorium'...

There was also a TV series that was on Tv when I was a kid...involved a riverboat...Maybe it was called Riverboat...McGavin, played the captain, I believe, and he was always hollering at people...my dad always laughed about that, that McGavin, in that series could not deliver his lines in a normal speaking voice...he had to yell at everyone...

And then there were the two episodes where Mcgavin played an old, retired FBI agent....he helped Mulder settle a few mysteries...

RIP...Ralphies Dad....


69 posted on 02/25/2006 3:11:44 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: lunarbicep
MAN! Kolchak was the best damned show, no matter how cheesy it looks now. It was DIFFERENT, and really made an impression on me as a kid. Richard Matheson who wrote the two TV movies is a genius, and those two movies still hold up today.

And just this week I had to sell my Kolchak DVDs for quick cash. :( (Good thing I copied them.)

70 posted on 02/25/2006 3:12:21 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (No respect for conservatives? That's free speech. No respect for liberals? That's hate speech.)
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To: yield 2 the right

May 7, 1922 - February 25,2006

71 posted on 02/25/2006 3:13:56 PM PST by yield 2 the right
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To: bnelson44
OK, that makes 2... they say it comes in threes... who else?

We just read about Don Knotts and felt really bad. Now Darren McGavin. Two favorites who will really be missed. As for a third, maybe it will be Jimmah. Then we'll feel just a bit better.

72 posted on 02/25/2006 3:14:36 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: lunarbicep

May he rest in peace.


73 posted on 02/25/2006 3:14:56 PM PST by tiredoflaundry (I'll admit it , I'm a Snow Flake !(Snoq) The rest of my tagline redacted by court order.)
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To: lunarbicep

Wow. 2 of my favorites passing in one day. Sad. Hollywood doesn't make actors of this caliber anymore. Darren McGavin, one of the great character actors, understated, but funny as all get-out.


74 posted on 02/25/2006 3:15:16 PM PST by alicewonders
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To: Howlin

"bad day in TV Land.'

Amen my brother.

RIP Darren McGavin.

The Night Stalker was a great and unusual show, don't think there'd ever have been an Equalizer or a Buffy without it. Hard to believe he was older than Don Knotts.


75 posted on 02/25/2006 3:15:44 PM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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To: Phsstpok
I always wondered why McGavin was not credited in The Natural.

I wonder if that is what happened with Arthur Hill as the doctor in A Bridge Too Far who refuses to look at James Caan's wounded Captain (one of the best sequences in the movie, but Hill was not credited)?

76 posted on 02/25/2006 3:16:19 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Meadows Place, TX-"Tom DeLay Country")
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To: lunarbicep

That one hurts. Rest in peace. You were one of my favorite TV guys...


77 posted on 02/25/2006 3:16:23 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: mosquewatch.com

And could still scare the jeepers out of you.


78 posted on 02/25/2006 3:17:38 PM PST by mark_interrupted
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To: raccoonradio
yes, was laughing my butt off as I watched it yet again on Christmas Eve!

That is a classic for us every Christmas. We dust it of and play it 5-10 times. It has so many great scenes..and of course there's the ultimate line which I sometimes use on FR, "YOU"LL shoot yer eye out kid" :_)

79 posted on 02/25/2006 3:19:19 PM PST by evad
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To: A.A. Cunningham
I guess I'm the only one that sees a resemblance between these pictures...something about the squint and the jawline...

Darren McGavin, RIP

Richard Feynman, RIP

No cheers, unfortunately.

80 posted on 02/25/2006 3:19:26 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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