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Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin

Actor · 1936 – 1973 · New York, New York, USA

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music. He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. He recorded his first million-selling single, "Splish Splash", in 1958. That was followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, Come September, co-starring his first wife, actress Sandra Dee. During the 1960s, he became more politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign. He was present on the night of June 4/5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Kennedy's assassination. During the same year, he discovered he had been raised by his grandmother, not his mother, and that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother. Those events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion. Although he made a successful comeback (in television) in the early 1970s, his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected, following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood. The knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him on to use his musical talent while still young. He died at the age of 37 after a heart operation in Los Angeles.

Series23

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.1

    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV6.8
  • TV7.8

    The Jack Benny Program

    1950 · 17 votes

  • TV8.2

    The Judy Garland Show

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV5.4

    Kraft Music Hall

    1958 · 7 votes

  • TV6.5

    This Is Your Life

    1952 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    Startime

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV4.8

    The Flip Wilson Show

    1970 · 20 votes

  • TV8.2

    American Bandstand

    1957 · 9 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Dick Clark Show

    1958 · 3 votes

  • TV8.1

    The Midnight Special

    1972 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8

    ABC Stage 67

    1966 · 6 votes

  • TV10.0

    The Bobby Darin Show

    1973 · 1 votes

Movies19

  • Movie6.7

    Captain Newman, M.D.

    1963 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Hell Is for Heroes

    1962 · 140 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Come September

    1961 · 85 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Too Late Blues

    1961 · 48 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Pepe

    1960 · 52 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.9

    Shadows

    1960 · 276 votes

  • Movie4.9

    State Fair

    1962 · 17 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.0
  • Movie6.1

    If a Man Answers

    1962 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Pressure Point

    1962 · 42 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Happy Ending

    1969 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.3

    That Funny Feeling

    1965 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Gunfight in Abilene

    1967 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Stranger in the House

    1967 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie
  • Movie