Story Another guy who was in a bunch of things. I remember him best from his roles in The Time Tunnel and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Story Another guy who was in a bunch of things. I remember him best from his roles in The Time Tunnel and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Those are probably the two roles I'm most familiar with. Time Tunnel made an impression on 8-year-old me.
Tracy told me aboout this last night. Honestly, I never made the association that it was the same guy.
One of my father's favorite films was The Guns of Navarone (1961) with Darren in his "Teen Idol" days! He co-starred with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn!
Had Time Tunnel lasted more than one season I think Darren would have been right up there with other cool guys of mid-Sixties TV such as David McCallum, Robert Conrad, Robert Culp et al.
Even as a youngster, I was old. (The Good Mrs. Benson likes to say that I'm always the oldest person in the room, no matter who else is there.) When I watched The Time Tunnel, I always identified with Robert Colbert's character, the more mature Dr. Doug Phillips, than I did Mr. Darren's Dr. Tony Newman. (Mr. Colbert is still with us, by the way, at the ripe old age of 93.)
While I wasn't a fan of Mr. Darren's recording career, I admired his durability as an actor. Between The Time Tunnel and Deep Space Nine, he did a decent stint as a regular on T. J. Hooker. Although the show itself was a joke when it came to police procedure, Darren did a creditable job. And I had to appreciate his relative immunity to ageing. He never seemed to get that much older, even after his hair turned white.
I agree with doc photo that, if The Time Tunnel had survived for a second season, he would've made a more lasting impression as one of the Cool Guys on '60's television.