Posted on 03/18/2010 12:26:36 PM PDT by Borges
Fess Parker -- who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone -- has died of natural causes ... a rep confirms with TMZ.
Parker -- who also starred in "Old Yeller" -- owned the DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara and the Wine Country Inn & Spa in Los Olivos, CA.
Parker married Marcella Rinehart in 1960. They had two kids.
He was 85.
Ballad of Davey Crockett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kweL_RUXXU4&feature=related
Daniel Boone was a Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhYRDPG8Mu0
Parker should have been wealthy from his TV work but he was the victim of a huge residuals rip-off. He earned what amounted to only a pittance for his Hollywood roles. His lawsuit to get what [I think] should have been rightly his failed. He made his fortune instead in Santa Barbara-area real estate, vineyards and as a hotelier (Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort). Despite the Bull Shot I found him to be a super-nice guy and was happy for his later success.
The other fellow in the picture is Albert Salmi, one time Broadway star and character actor who murdered his wife and then killed himself.
RIP. Too bad the program Daniel Boone is so politically incorrect that it can no longer be aired.
He was looking pretty good on Jan 1 this year.
Interesting interview w/Fess Parker from 2000...it’s a seven part series, here’s the link to number 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB5rJDHjwsM&feature=fvw
A few years ago we went to a July 4 band concert at the Fess Parker Winery. Mr. Parker did a reading of one of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches (not the Gettysburg address). He was a towering figure even then, well into his seventies.
Sad. Peter Graves just died too.
In real life, Boone detested coon-skin caps and looked down on those who wore them.
But what about the hat? Lewis Correctly shows Boone with a beaver hat, not a coonskin cap. Boone himself considered that style of headwear uncivilized. The misconception began when an actor who had helped Lewis sell the engravings was hired for a minstrel show called "The Hunters of Kentucky." Unable to find a beaver hat, he substituted a coonskin cap, and a myth was born.
BAD!
Loved that show! Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone. RIP Mr. Parker!
Mingo!
Wasn’t he played by Ed Ames?
Sure could throw a tomahawk!
“Too bad the program Daniel Boone is so politically incorrect that it can no longer be aired.”
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We get it here in St. Louis nightly on the Retro TV Network.
It provides balm for the soul with its true, steady and comfortable traditional values.
Additionally, I don’t have to worry about being shocked with the perversion du jour, by some “brave” and “edgy” television director, trying to make a name for himself in the jaded old whore that is Hollywood.
I still have the 78 rpm record in which Tennesse Ernie Ford sings Davy Crockett on one side and Farwell on the other!
A little dab will do ya!
My brother & I had coon skin caps as well as genuine faux flintlocks! Couldn’t get the BB version...Mom put her foot down on that one.
Wow...I’ll be 62 this August but I feel older today somehow.
LOL! One of my first crushes when I was approximately 5 years old. Him, Roy Rogers and whoever played Lt. Rip Masters on Rin Tin Tin. Sorry to see him go. RIP Mr. Parker.
Interesting. I too get Retro-TV but have never seen it.
But wasn’t Fess in those episodes too? All of them? Some of them?
And resonated with girls, too! I loved those shows! Davey and Daniel were so handsome and brave and honest. I’m so glad I grew up in the late 50’s-early 60’s.
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