James Darren, best known for a wide range of television ... Darren acted in the role of Moondoggie and sang the title track ...

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.

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.’ ...