{"id":12811,"date":"2006-02-28T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/darren-mcgavin-dead-at-83\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T23:16:00","slug":"darren-mcgavin-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/darren-mcgavin-dead-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren McGavin Dead At 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11570390\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Darren McGavin - A Christmas Story\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/darrenmcgavin_itsaleg.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Not only did I miss the death of Don Knotts last week, but I also overlooked that of actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11570390\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darren McGavin, who died<\/a> last week at the age of 83 of natural causes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0569000\/\" target=\"_blank\">McGavin<\/a> was perhaps best known as a TV actor, starring in the series <i>Mike Hammer<\/i> and <i>Kolchak<\/i>, among others.  His film credits included memorable roles in films like <i>The Natural<\/i> and <i>A Christmas Story<\/i>, as seen to the right.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s sad to see two actors representing some of my fondest childhood memories pass on like this.  Here&rsquo;s hoping that bad news doesn&rsquo;t come in threes&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/obituaries\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">obituaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114116813707449012?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did I miss the death of Don Knotts last week, but I also overlooked that of actor Darren McGavin, who died last week at the age of 83 of natural causes. McGavin was perhaps best known as a TV actor, starring in the series Mike Hammer and Kolchak, among others. His film credits &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/darren-mcgavin-dead-at-83\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Darren McGavin Dead At 83&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}