By Mike Barnes Senior Editor James Darren, the former teen idol and pop singer who played the dreamy surfer Moondoggie in three Gidget movies before starring on television on The Time Tunnel and T ...

James Darren, the teen idol who famously played dreamy surfer Moondoggie in the “Gidget” films of the 1950s ... A chance encounter in New York with movie producer Joyce Selznick, the niece ...

By Will Dudding James Darren, an actor and singer whose starring role as a California surfer in the “Gidget” movies made him one of the most popular heartthrobs of the late 1950s and early ...

James Darren, who found teen heartthrob fame ... Charlton Heston melodrama “Diamond Head” (1962). After the “Gidget” movies, Mr. Darren increasingly appeared in TV roles.

James Darren, an actor, director and singer who had his breakout role of Moondoggie in the 1959 movie “Gidget,” died Monday at age 88, Variety reported. The entertainer died at Cedars-Sinai ...

James Darren, best known for his roles on “Gidget” and “T.J. Hooker ... Meatball” and “The Guns of Navarone.” His final movie role was in 2017’s “Lucky,” directed by John ...

James Darren, the former teen idol and pop singer who played the dreamy surfer Moondoggie in three Gidget movies before starring on television on The Time Tunnel and T.J. Hooker, died Monday.

James Darren, who went from teen idol status acting in youth-oriented movies like “Gidget” to becoming an actor in TV shows such as “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “T.J. Hooker” and a ...

James Darren ... But to young movie fans of the late 1950s, he would be remembered best as Moondoggie, the dark-haired surfer boy in the smash 1959 release "Gidget." Dee starred as the title ...

James Darren, who went from teen idol status acting in youth-oriented movies like "Gidget" to become an actor in TV shows such as "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "T.J. Hooker" and a singer and ...