Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Darren in 1983 - ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty James Darren, who has died aged 88, was a ...

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 ...

Singer and on-screen heartthrob James Darren — known for the “Gidget” films and “T.J. Hooker” — has died. He was 88. Darren, who was also a television director, died in his sleep Monday at ...

Actor James Darren. Screen capture via YouTube https://youtu.be/qY-OYGibgS8?feature=shared Actor and director James Darren, best-known for his role in the “Gidget ...

The 'Time Tunnel' star also was a pop singer and a crooning hologram on 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor James Darren, the former teen idol and pop singer who played the ...

Darren was probably best known as Moondoggie in the “Gidget” film series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His son, Jim Moret, confirmed his father’s death, saying the actor died in his sleep at ...

When Hollywood released "Gidget" in 1959 it unleashed one of the first waves of mainstream attention and popularity for surfing in America. All of a sudden, that young teenage girl from Malibu was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with ...

Actor and singer James Darren, who became famous after starring the Gidget movies and on TV in shows like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and T.J Hooker, has died. He was 88 years old, per TMZ. Darren’s ...