LOS ANGELES (AP) — Darren McGavin, the husky, tough-talking actor who starred in several TV series, played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic A Christmas Story and had other strong roles in such ...

During my youth in the mid-1970s, as far as I was concerned, there was no one on television cooler than Jim Rockford, lead in the weekly series "The Rockford Files." Rockford, a private eye by trade, ...

Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Ian Petrella and Melinda Dillon were the Parkers in "A Christmas Story," partly filmed in Cleveland in 1983. (Turner Classic Movies) CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It was about ...

Husky, tough-talking Darren McGavin, one of the busiest actors in television and film, starring in five TV series, died Saturday of natural causes at an L.A.-area hospital with his family at his side, ...