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.

James Darren, who went from teen idol status acting in youth-oriented movies like "Gidget" to become an actor in TV shows such as "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "T.J. Hooker" and a singer and ...

dear James Darren. I don’t know if you remember the show Gidget, but he was Moondoggie on Gidget. And for a lot of us, he was our very first kind of, ‘Oh, he’s cute. He’s cute.’ ...