Darren McGavin in Billy Madison | 1995

Clip Name: Billy Proposes to Go Through School Again So He Can Run the Company

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Darren McGavin in Billy Madison | 1995

Starring: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin and Bridgette Wilson
Directed by: Tamra Davis
About this actor

Darren McGavin (May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears. He appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the 1950s television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. From 1959-1961, McGavin starred in the NBC western series Riverboat, first with Burt Reynolds and then with Noah Beery, Jr. McGavin was born William Lyle Richardson in Spokane, Washington, a son of Reid Delano Richardson and his wife Grace Bogart. However, some sources list his birthplace as San Joaquin, California. He graduated from Puyallup High School. In magazine interviews in the 1960s, he said his parents divorced when he was very young. His father, not knowing what else to do, put him in an orphanage at the age of 11. McGavin began to run away, sleeping on the docks...