Background
Darrell Fetty was born in Milton, West Virginia.
Screenwriter Actor Singer Film Producer
Darrell Fetty was born in Milton, West Virginia.
And attended one of the last one-room school-houses in America at Ball’s Gap, West Virginia. He graduated from Milton High School and Marshall University, both located in West Virginia.
He started piano lessons in the third grade, and, a couple of years later, began playing for the church choir. In his teens, Fetty put several rock bands together. Moving to Los Angeles after college graduation, Fetty landed his first role on the then-popular high school drama Room 222 and began acting regularly in television and feature films.
His television appearances include guest-starring roles on Happy Days, Starsky & Hutch, Barnaby Jones, The Facts of Life, One Day at a Time, Eight is Enough, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, thirtysomething, CHiPs, Knots Landing, The Gangster Chronicles, Centennial and Hawaii 5-0.
Among his theatrical movies were featured roles in Stunts and Blood Beach. Fetty co-starred in the John Milius films Big Wednesday as a surfer called "Waxer" and in The Wind and the Lion as a bumbling junior diplomat.
During the early days of his acting career, Darrell Fetty supplemented his income as a Story Analyst, reviewing screenplays for studios and independent producers, starting at American International Pictures for the legendary Sam Arkoff. At this time Fetty was also writing music videos for Music Television, working with young directors for such artists as The Ramones and Jefferson Starship.
He wrote a number of independent features including Freeway and Trouble Bound, co-written with Francis Delia.
State Park (under the pseudonym “Neal M Noble”), and Into The Fire (as “Jesse Ballard”) and worked extensively in feature development for most of the major studios with such producers as Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer, and John Milius. In the late 1990s, he began working full-time as a writer/producer for television shows, beginning as a staff writer on National Broadcasting Company’s Viper, created by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo. Fetty’s other series work include The Sentinel, Silk Stalkings, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, and Mutant X.
