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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

There's scratchy sand in your swimsuit. You're lathered in a layer of sunblock-sweat. While squinting awkwardly at the horizon, you attempt to conceal various bulging body quadrants with a T-shirt ...

James Darren, best known for his roles on “Gidget” and “T.J. Hooker,” has died at age 88. The actor died peacefully in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 2, according to ...

In her youth, she was a real-life surfer girl heroine who inspired the “Gidget” movies, TV show and a book. Among the actors to portray Gidget were Sandra Dee and Sally Field. After the original ...

James Darren in 'For Those Who Think Young (1964), left, and with Sandra Dee in 'Gidget' (1959) Everett Collection James Darren, Gidget teen idol actor who rose to fame in the 1950s, has died at 88, ...

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 sleep at a Los ...