In the mid-1930s, Darryl was discovered by a dance-school director, and subsequently became a student there. The following year, Hollywood studio Paramount signed … See more

Hickman graduated from Cathedral High School in Los Angeles in 1948 (his brother Dwayne graduated from the same school in 1952). Finding it hard to adjust to adulthood after being in the limelight for most of his childhood, he retired from show business See more

Hickman was born in Hollywood, California, on July 28, 1931, to Milton and Katherine (née Ostertag) Hickman. His father sold insurance and his mother was a housewife. His maternal grandfather, Louis Henry Ostertag, was a U.S. Navy seaman on Commodore See more

Hickman became a television executive, producer, and occasional screenwriter, mainly working in New York City. He wrote the scripts for several 1961 episodes of The Loretta Young … See more

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 169–170. See more