Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto, May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country. Although unknown to his public, his health was dangerously fragile and strongly motivated him to succeed within the limited lifetime he feared he had, and ultimately did.
He was also an actor, singer/songwriter and music business entrepreneur. His wish for a legacy was “to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.” Among his many other contributions, he became a goodwill ambassador for the American Heart Association.
In addition to music, Darin became a motion picture actor. In 1960, he appeared twice as himself in NBC’s short-lived crime drama Dan Raven, starring Skip Homeier and set on the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood. In 1960, he was the only actor ever to have been signed contractually to five major Hollywood film studios. He wrote music for several films and acted in them as well. In his first major film, Come September, a romantic comedy designed to capitalize on his popularity with the teenage and young adult audience, he met and co-starred with 18-year-old actress Sandra Dee. They fell in love and were married in 1960. They had one son, Dodd Mitchell Darin (born 1961) and divorced in 1967.
Asking to be taken seriously, he took on more meaningful movie roles, and in 1962, he won the Golden Globe Award for “Most Promising Male 
Newcomer” for his role in Pressure Point.
In 1963, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a shell-shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M.D.. At the Cannes Film Festival, where his records—in particular “Beyond the Sea”—brought him a wide following, he won the French Film Critics Award for best actor.
What really moved things along for Darin was his songwriting partnership, formed in 1955, with fellow Bronx Science student Don Kirshner. In 1956 his agent negotiated a contract for him with Decca Records, where Bill Haley & His Comets had risen to fame. However, this was a time when rock and roll was still in its infancy and the number of capable record producers and arrangers in the field was extremely limited.
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