Darren McGavin, top, in a scene from the television series “Riverboat” in this June 25, 1959 file photo. McGavin, 83, the husky, tough-talking actor who starred in the TV series “Mike Hammer,” played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” and had other strong roles in films and TV here.
Factoids: McGavin was born in Spokane in 1922, and the role I enjoyed him playing most was “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
Question: Can any gimlet-eyed HBOer name the second actor in the photo above?
Feedback: “I’m rethinking my earlier guess - is that a young, pre-mustache Burt Reynolds?” — The Heimlich Maneuver. (DFO: Bingo)
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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