Troy Donahue, a '50s teen idol who starred alongside Sandra Dee, Connie Stevens and Diane McBain, struggled with addiction before his death in 2001 at age 65.

PACIFIC PALISADES, California (CNN) -- Troy Donahue, a blond-haired, blue-eyed actor who achieved teen heartthrob status in the 1950s and 60s, died Sunday in a California hospital. Donahue, 65 ...

Why interview Troy Donahue anyway? “Believe me, you won’t believe Toy when you see him,” the press agent tells me. “He’s a bearded hippie! And believe me he is fantastic in this picture ...

In 1997, Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee reunited in New York City for a revival screening of their soapy 1959 romance A Summer Place. “I was mesmerized by my own image up there. I kind of said ...

LOS ANGELES -- Troy Donahue, 65, a movie actor who was a blond, blue-eyed teenage heartthrob of the 1950s and 1960s, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., after a heart attack. He ...

McClure was a composite of past Hollywood stars Troy Donahue and Doug McClure, and like The Simpsons ' character, the two men struggled to reclaim their fame later in their careers.

When it came to screen sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, Troy Donahue was certainly a high-caliber candidate. Blond, blue-eyed and tanned, Donahue got his first big break in a 1959 film called A ...

Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular sex ...

All that fuss about redskins seems picayune compared with the plight of Lieut. Troy Donahue. Setting femmes aflutter at Fort Delivery, Ariz., Troy bestrides a flesh-and-blood horse, but his acting ...

Showman P.T. Barnum (Burl Ives) plans with a balloonist (Troy Donahue) and an inventor (Gert Frobe) to send Gen. Tom Thumb in a rocket to the moon.