Darby Hinton
| Darby Hinton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 19, 1957 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Parent(s) | Ed and Marilynn Hinton |
Edgar Raymond Darby Hinton (born August 19, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker initially cast in commercials when he was six months old. From 1964–1970, he portrayed Israel Boone, a son of American pioneer Daniel Boone, on the NBC adventure series Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker in the title role. He also co-starred as Simon Graham in the two-part 1968 episode, "Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents" of NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, with Darren McGavin, Patricia Crowley, and Russ Conway.
Hinton was born in Santa Monica, California. His father, actor Edgar Latimer "Ed" Hinton, Jr. (1927–1958), was a native of Wilmington, North Carolina. Ed Hinton's father, Edgar Latimer Hinton II, Sr. (1868-1934), owned the Seashore Hotel which had one of the first steel piers for entertaining over the ocean in nearby Wrightsville Beach. He operated the only laundry business in Wilmington and was a community actor there.
Ed Hinton appeared in the role of Special Agent Henderson in the 1950s syndicated television series I Led Three Lives, starring Richard Carlson and based on the espionage activities of Herbert Philbrick. Ed Hinton, particularly active in television Westerns, perished in an airplane crash on Catalina Island, when Darby was 14 months old. His mother, Marilynn Hinton, of German extraction, never remarried. Darby, therefore, became personally close to Fess Parker, his Daniel Boone "father" and subsequently a Los Angeles, Santa Barbara area businessman. Hinton has two sisters who were child actors, Daryn Hinton and Darcy Hinton Cook. Darby Hinton was also a godson of actor Charlton Heston and former Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, son of former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. Hinton was a Bel Air Road friend and neighbor of Zsa Zsa Gabor and former president Ronald Reagan, and childhood friend of Jon Provost of the Lassie series.
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