Darren Dalton

Film

Birthday February 9, 1965

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Powell, Wyoming, United States

Age 59 years old

Nationality United States

#47954 Most Popular

1965

Darren Jack Dalton (born February 9, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film producer.

1980

He also had TV guest appearances in the late 1980s on Highway to Heaven, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation and as General Custer on Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman.

1982

Dalton's career began in 1982 when cast as Randy Anderson by Francis Ford Coppola during a nationwide talent search for the teen ensemble The Outsiders.

1983

He is best known for playing Randy the Soc in The Outsiders (1983) and Daryl in Red Dawn (1984),

Dalton was born in Powell, Wyoming.

1984

After The Outsiders, Dalton appeared with C. Thomas Howell and Patrick Swayze in Red Dawn (1984), a story of a group of teenagers fighting Soviet Union troops who had invaded the United States.

Dalton portrayed Daryl Bates, the son of the mayor.

1986

After Red Dawn, Dalton's first made-for-television movie was Brotherhood of Justice (1986) as a rebellious teenager, and he appeared in the short-lived TV ensemble drama The Best Times (1985).

1989

Shortly after, he returned to film, including in Dancing in the Forest (1989) and The Wolves (1996).

1999

1999 The Simpsons Raphael (Store Clerk)

2007

Turning to screenwriting full-time, Dalton did not appear in other TV shows or movies until 2007's The Stolen Moments of September.

He then returned to acting in War of the Worlds 2, Children of the Hunt, Darkroom (which he also executive produced and provided music for), the 3-D zombie thriller Day of the Living and The Day the Earth Stopped which Dalton also wrote and produced, and The Land That Time Forgot, which Dalton adapted from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.