‘Gidget,’ ‘Time Tunnel,’ ‘T.J. Hooker’ Actor Was 88 5
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, has died, his son Jim Moret announced. He was 88. Early in his career, the dark-haired Darren received excellent notices for starring in Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) …