question: Happy Hell Night (also known as Frat Night) is a 1992 Canadian-American slasher film directed by Brian Owens and starring who, that was an American film, stage, and television actor best known for his portrayal of the grumpy but loving father in the film "A Christmas Story"?
answer: Darren McGavin
context: Title: A Christmas Story
  Passage: A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Metrocolor Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark, and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book "", with some elements from his 1971 book "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories".  Now a Christmas season classic in the United States, it is shown numerous times on television, usually on the networks owned by the Turner Broadcasting System.  Since 1997, a marathon of the film titled "24 Hours of "A Christmas Story"" has aired annually on TNT and/or TBS, comprising twelve consecutive airings of the film on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day each year.
  Title: Happy Hell Night
  Passage: Happy Hell Night (also known as Frat Night) is a 1992 Canadian-American slasher film directed by Brian Owens and starring Darren McGavin and Nick Gregory.  The film also features brief appearances by Sam Rockwell and Jorja Fox in their early careers.
  Title: Fatal Games
  Passage: Fatal Games (originally known as The Killing Touch and also released as Olympic Nightmare) is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Michael Elliott and starring Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson, Michael O'Leary, Teal Roberts, and Spice Williams-Crosby.  The plot consists of a mad slasher wielding a javelin killing off various members of a high school gymnastics team.  The film shares many of its plot points with an earlier slasher film, "Graduation Day".
  Title: Darren McGavin
  Passage: Darren McGavin (born William Lyle Richardson, May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American film, stage, and television actor best known for his portrayal of the grumpy but loving father in the film "A Christmas Story," and for the title role in the television horror series "."
  Title: Silent Night, Deadly Night
  Passage: Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr., and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach and Leo Geter.  Set during Christmas, the story concerns a young man, Billy, who suffers from posttraumatic stress over witnessing his parents' Christmas Eve murder and his subsequent upbringing in an abusive Catholic orphanage.  In adulthood, the Christmas holiday leads him into a psychological breakdown, and he emerges as a spree killer donning a Santa suit.
  Title: Charles Sellier
  Passage: Charles Edward Sellier Jr. (November 9, 1943 – January 31, 2011) was an American television producer, screenwriter, novelist and director, best known for creating the American book and television series "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams".  He was also known for directing the notorious Christmas themed slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night" He also wrote and produced more than thirty films and 230 television shows during his career, which spanned four decades.
  Title: Night Shift (film)
  Passage: Night Shift is a 1982 American comedy film, directed by Ron Howard, concerning a timid night shift morgue employee whose life is turned upside down by a free-spirited entrepreneur.  It stars Howard's "Happy Days" co-star Henry Winkler along with Michael Keaton, in his first starring role, and Shelley Long.  Also appearing are Richard Belzer and Clint Howard.  A young Kevin Costner has a brief scene as "Frat Boy #1", Shannen Doherty appears as a Bluebell scout, Vincent Schiavelli plays a man who delivers a sandwich to Winkler's character, and Charles Fleischer has a brief role as one of the jail prisoners.
  Title: Terror Train
  Passage: Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian-American slasher film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in his directorial debut and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Johnson.  Set aboard a moving train holding a costume party, a group of attending fraternity students are murdered by a familiar masked killer targeting them from a prank gone wrong, and steals their costumes on the train after killing them to avoid being caught.
  Title: A Christmas Story 2
  Passage: A Christmas Story 2 (also known in the trailer as A Christmas Story 2: Official Sequel) is a 2012 film directed by Brian Levant and starring Braeden Lemasters.  The film is a direct sequel to the 1983 film "A Christmas Story", which ignores the events of the 1994 film "My Summer Story".  It was released straight to DVD on October 30, 2012.
  Title: Hell Night
  Passage: Hell Night is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tom DeSimone, written by Randy Feldman, and starring Linda Blair.  The film depicts a night of fraternity hazing (hell night) set in an old manor, during which a deformed maniac terrorizes and murders many of the college students.  The film also blends elements of slasher films and haunted house-themed films.  Director Chuck Russell served as an executive producer, while his long-time collaborator Frank Darabont served as a production assistant.
citations: Darren McGavin Happy Hell Night