James Darren, working in youth-oriented films like “Gidget” to play in TV plays such as “T.J. Hooker” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and a musician and manager, passed Monday at Cedars-Sinai, age 88 Hospital in Los Angeles.
His son Jim Moret stated that he could communicate his love for his home while being regaled in the cardiac department. “He was a suitable man and was very capable,” Moret told. “He was forever youthful.”
Moret stated he was thankful that his dad had been able to adopt his autograph position as the surfer Moondoggie in the “Gidget” film and that he persisted in interacting with his lovers.
Born in Philadelphia, he learned working with Stella Adler in New York and was marked to Columbia Pictures. Where his foremost position was in “Rumble on the Docks.” He moved on to emerge in movies including “Operation Madball” and “Gunmen’s Walk” before existing model in the 1959 teen film “Gidget,” starring Cliff Robertson and Sandra Dee. Darren even sang the title way for the hit film. The incidents of a teenage surfer girl in Malibu and subsequently became a famous TV series.
James Darren
The “Gidget” music song established a thriving singer career for Darren. Who had a gold paper with “Goodbye Cruel World” in 1961 and cast at least 14 albums. He persisted in appearing in quality films including “All the Young Men”, “The Gene Krupa Story,” “The Guns of Navarone,” and “Because They’re Young.”
He repeated his position as Moondoggie in “Gidget Goes Hawaiian.” Similarly in “Gidget Goes to Rome,” though he was exhaust of the typecasting.
Driving into television, he starred in the sequel “The Time Tunnel” and after a straightforward sojourn in Italy arising in Jess Franco’s “Venus in Furs.” He moved on to guest-star on multiple sequences including “Fantasy Island”, “Love, American Style,” and “The Love Boat.”
Darren was a standard on “T.J. Hooker” from 1983 to 1986. Played in Tv plays including “Melrose Place” and “Beverly Hills, 90210.”
In 1998, he discovered a new era of fans as Vic Fontaine. The holographic nightclub vocalist on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
He is endure by his wifey Evy; sons Christian Darren, Jim Moret, and Tony Darren; and 5 grandchildren.
