Biography for
Darby Hinton More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

19 August 1957, Santa Monica, California, USA

Birth Name

Edgar Raymond Darby Hinton

Mini Biography

Darby Hinton made his acting debut at the age of 6months and as a child actor appeared in many commercials, films, tv series.He attended high school at the American School in Lugano, Switzerland, and then went to college on the World Campus Afloat Institute for Shipboard Education.This was a cruise ship that traveled the world to study different societies.He returned to California to continue his studies at Pepperdine University while continuing to make tv appearances.One of Darby's great interests is the martial arts, and he is skilled in the JKD concept of fighting.

IMDb Mini Biography By: matilda@gardanews.it

Spouse

Diana Preissman	(24 September 1983 - ?) (divorced) 2 children
Shan Griffiths	(? - present) 2 children

Trivia

Son of Ed Hinton

Has remained close to his "Daniel Boone" (1964) co-star Fess Parker, who became something of a surrogate father to him over the years. His own father, actor Ed Hinton, died in a plane crash when he was just over a year old, and his mother never remarried.

Brother of Daryn Hinton and Darcy Hinton.

His son, Nick, is a member of the band "Badwater".

Says he "met" low budget filmmaker Greydon Clark, who directed him in five movies, as a child, when Clark was speaking with his mother on the subject of doing a movie with Cliff Robertson.

He was a guest at the 2012 Memphis Film Festival's "A Gathering of Guns 4: A TV Western Reunion" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch, Mississippi.