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. He was ...

James Darren, who has died aged 88, was a toothsome and tanned American actor who became a teen idol in his early twenties as singing surfer Jeff “Moondoggie” Matthews in Gidget (1959), a film that ...

LOS ANGELES – CIRCA 1961: Actor James Darren attends a party in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) James Darren, who became an instant teen idol as the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in ...

Gidget and T.J. Hooker actor James Darren died Monday, September 2, at the age of 88. Darren died in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a message on his website. As ...

Video: Nancy Sinatra leads tribute to Star Trek and T.J. Hooker actor James Darren, 88, who died in his sleep at LA hospital too weak for heart surgery Deborah Walley stars alongside James Darren and ...

Darren revived his singing career in the late '90s when he appeared on several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine. By Mike Barnes James Darren, the former ...

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 singer and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol ...