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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 ...

James Darren, an actor, director, and singer best known for his role as Moondoggie in the 1959 movie Gidget, died Monday at age 88. “I always thought he would pull through because he was so cool. He ...

Dee left the Gidget role after the first film, but Darren – who described himself as a “prisoner” of a studio contract – was part of the two that followed: “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” in 1961 with Deborah ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Darren, Gidget teen idol actor who rose to fame in the 1950s, has died at 88, according to Nancy Sinatra, who counted him among her closest friends. “One of my dearest, closest friends in all ...