As one of the most talked-about figures, Darren McGavin has built a significant fortune. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.

What is Darren McGavin's Net Worth?

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While working as a set painter at Columbia Pictures, McGavin landed his first film role, an uncredited part in the 1945 film "A Song to Remember." He subsequently had uncredited roles for Columbia in "Counter-Attack," "Kiss and Tell," and "She Wouldn't Say Yes." McGavin had his first substantial credited role in the 1951 comedy "Queen for a Day," released by United Artists. He later had a supporting role in David Lean's 1955 romantic drama "Summertime," starringKatharine Hepburn. That same year, McGavin appeared in two films directed by Otto Preminger: "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell." Later in the decade, he starred alongsideJerry Lewisin "The Delicate Delinquent" and alongside Margaret Hayes in "The Case Against Brooklyn." McGavin was less prolific on the big screen in the 1960s, with his handful of credits including the Westerns "Bullet for a Badman" and "The Great Sioux Massacre" and the science-fiction film "Mission Mars."

Darren McGavin was an actor and director who had a net worth of $2 million at the time of his death. Darren McGavin's career spanned six decades on the screen and stage. In addition to originating roles in the Broadway plays "My Three Angels" and "The Rainmaker," he appeared in such films as "The Man with the Golden Arm," "The Case Against Brooklyn," "Zero to Sixty," "A Christmas Story," and "Happy Hell Night." McGavin also starred in some television series, including "Casey, Crime Photographer," "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," "Riverboat," and "Kolchak: The Night Stalker."

In the early 1970s, McGavin starred in the comedy "Mrs. Pollifax-Spy" and made his feature directorial debut with the mystery film "Happy Mother's Day, Love George." He went on to star in the Disney crime comedy "No Deposit, No Return" in 1976. McGavin appeared in another Disney film, "Hot Lead and Cold Feet," in 1978. Between the two films, he was in "Airport '77" and "Zero to Sixty." Kicking off the 1980s, McGavin starred in the science-fiction action film "Hangar 18." He followed that with another science-fiction film in 1981, "Firebird 2015 AD." McGavin next played Mr. Parker in "A Christmas Story," which would become a holiday classic. His subsequent credits included "Turk 182," "Raw Deal," "From the Hip," and "Dead Heat." In the early 1990s, McGavin was in "Captain America," "Blood and Concrete," and "Happy Hell Night." He went on to play Brian Madison in theAdam Sandlercomedy "Billy Madison" in 1995. McGavin's final film credits were "Small Time," "Pros and Cons," and "Still Waters Burn," the lattermost of which was filmed in 1996 but not released until 2008.

McGavin had his first major television role from 1951 to 1952, starring as the titular character in the CBS crime drama series "Casey, Crime Photographer," based on the hit radio series of the same name. Over the ensuing years, he appeared in a slew of anthology series, including "Westinghouse Studio One," "Goodyear Television Playhouse," "Suspense," "Armstrong Circle Theater," and "Alfred HitchcockPresents." McGavin had his next main role from 1958 to 1959, starring as the titular private detective in "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer." After that, from 1959 to 1961, he starred oppositeBurt Reynoldsin the NBC Western series "Riverboat." McGavin subsequently had guest roles on such shows as "Rawhide," "Playdate," "The Defenders," "The Nurses," "The Virginian," "Dr. Kildare," and "Gunsmoke." At the end of the decade, he starred in the short-lived NBC detective series "The Outsider."

Darren McGavin was born as William Richardson on May 7, 1922 in Spokane, Washington to Grace and Reed. After his parents divorced when he was 11, he lived with his father on a farm near Tacoma. McGavin ended up running away from the farm and living with a Native American family on the Nisqually River. After evading the police and welfare workers for a while, he was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school by his father. McGavin ran away from the school, too, and lived under the wharf in San Francisco for some time. He eventually moved in with his mother and stepfather. McGavin attended high school in Galt, California before going to College of the Pacific in Stockton. There, he studied architecture, but never graduated. McGavin later studied theater in New York City at the HB Studio, Actors Studio, and Neighborhood Playhouse.

While attending college, McGavin had a job building scenery for a local theater group. He eventually dropped out of college and became a set painter at Columbia Pictures in 1945.

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