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 ...
The actor and singer James Darren has died at the age of 88. On screen, he was forever young, a teen heartthrob who starred in the "Gidget" beach movies. NPR's Elizabeth Blair has an appreciation.
LOS ANGELES — 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 his ...
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 ...
LOS ANGELES -- James Darren, the teen idol who famously played dreamy surfer Moondoggie in the "Gidget" films of the 1950s and 1960s and segued into roles behind the camera, has died. He was 88.
World Golf Hall of Fame member Chi-Chi Rodriguez died Aug. 8. And on Sept. 3, James Darren, a singer who starred in "Gidget" early in his career, "T.J. Hooker" later in his career, and directed many ...
Longtime actor, singer and television director James Darren has died at 88. To movie fans, he was remembered best as Moondoggie, the surfer boy in the smash 1959 film "Gidget" and its two sequels. His ...
LOS ANGELES — 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 his ...
FILE - James Darren — left, one of the stars of the film For Those Who Think Young — chats with Nancy Sinatra, centre, and Claudia Martin about their film debuts, August 13, 1963. (AP Photo, File) LOS ...
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 ...
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