Sept. 3 (UPI) --James Darren, best known for a wide range of television shows and movies from Gidget to T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los ...

(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 ...

He was also a painter.

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 ...

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 ...

The actor and painter died of natural causes on June 22, according to his family and friends ...

Hollywood is looking to catch a new Gidget wave. Pterodactyl Prods. and “300” producer Mark Canton are teaming to bring the sun and surf icon back to film and TV for the first time in more than two ...

Joby Baker, whose presence on television and in film throughout the 1960s and ’70s made him one of the era’s more familiar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the original “Gidget” movie, in 1959, Hollywood churned out any number of sequels. “Gidget Grows Up.” “Gidget Goes to Rome.” ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --James Darren, best known for a wide range of television shows and movies from Gidget to T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los ...