Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, ...

Fess Parker, star of numerous Disney movies (Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier)—and TV’s Daniel Boone—has died at age 85. I’m a generation too young to have many firsthand memories of him (for ...

Chances are, if you grew up in the mid-1950s, you either owned an official Davy Crockett coonskin cap or had the lyrics of the television show’s theme song committed to memory: “Born on a mountaintop ...

When I hear the names Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, I think of the late Fess Parker, who portrayed the legendary frontiersmen in movies and TV series in the 1950s and 1960s. While on vacation in ...

While he wasn’t born here, Fess Parker got here as fast as he could, or as fast as his family could, moving to San Angelo three months after his Aug. 16, 1924, birth in Fort Worth. He attended Austin ...

SANTA YNEZ, Calif. — “Davy Crockett” and “Daniel Boone” star-turned-developer and vintner Fess Parker has died. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash says Parker died this morning of natural causes ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010) was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt ...