Darby Hinton is an American actor and filmmaker initially cast in commercials when he was six months old. From 19641970 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 costarred as Simon Graham in the twopart 1968 episode, Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents of NBCs Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color, with Darren McGavin, Patricia Crowley, and Russ Conway.
Hinton was born Edgar Raymond Darby Hinton in Santa Monica, California. His father, actor Edgar Latimer Ed Hinton, Jr. , was a native of Wilmington, North Carolina. Ed Hintons father, Edgar Latimer Hinton II, Sr. , owned the Seashore Hotel which had one of the first steel piers for entertaining over the ocean in nearby Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. He operated the only laundry business in Wilmington and was a community actor there.
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