Darryl Gerard Hickman (born July 28, 1931) is an American film and TV actor, former television executive and child star of the 1930s and 1940s.
Hickman first gained fame as a child actor during the late 1930s and 1940s, appearing in The Grapes of Wrath, Men of Boys Town and The Human Comedy, among many others. He also made a featured appearance in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Going to Press.
By the time he was 21, Hickman had appeared in over 100 motion pictures.
After spending his entire childhood as an actor, Hickman retired from entertainment to enter a monastery in 1951, only to return to Hollywood just over a year later. He continued acting, but received fewer roles than he had in the peak of his career. During the Civil War Centennial, Hickman played a young Union soldier in the short-lived series, The Americans, (1961) and as an officer in Disney's Johnny Shiloh (1963). He became a television executive and an acting coach, and would eventually become a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera Productions towards the end of his five-decade career in motion pictures. His book, The Unconscious Actor: Out of Control, In Full Command, was published in April 2007.
Hickman married actress Pamela Lincoln in 1959; the couple have since divorced. They had met on the set of the film The Tingler in which they both appear. Darryl and Pamela had two sons. One son, Justin Hickman committed suicide in 1985 at age 19.
His younger brother Dwayne Hickman was also a notable actor, and is best known as the title character of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and from the film Cat Ballou.
