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'Davy Crockett' Star Fess Parker Dies
TMZ ^ | 03/18/10

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bornonamountaintop; danielboone; davycrockett; disney; fessparker; hollywood; killedhimabarr; obituary; whenhewasonly3
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To: Borges

bookmark.


201 posted on 03/18/2010 3:39:03 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Borges

Rest in Peace.

“Killed hisself a bar,
When he was only three,
Davey, Davey Crockett....”

I love the way the original Davey Crocket incorporated Daniel Boone, virtually creating an entirely new Davey Boone / Daniel Crockett character.


202 posted on 03/18/2010 3:40:06 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Borges

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier is no more!!!
Rest in peace, Fess Parker.


203 posted on 03/18/2010 3:41:54 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (How are things in Glockamorra..... this fine day?)
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To: eddie willers
On the same Christmas morning Santa brought me the coonskin cap, he also left me a Tommy Gun.
I had a cap gun. I loved the smell of "gun powder" in the morning.

204 posted on 03/18/2010 3:42:17 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Borges

I’ll never forget the time when Johnny Carson screwed up his name, turning him into “Pess Farker”. Ed & Johnny had a great laugh at that one.

RIP, Mr. Parker. You were one of the good’uns.


205 posted on 03/18/2010 3:45:40 PM PDT by hoagy62 (.)
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To: oh8eleven
I had a cap gun. I loved the smell of "gun powder" in the morning.

I had one too but my patience would run thin.

I'd end up hitting the whole roll with a hammer.

206 posted on 03/18/2010 3:46:26 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Borges

How sad! Such a great family show!


207 posted on 03/18/2010 3:48:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: eddie willers
I'd end up hitting the whole roll with a hammer.
We did that too and set the field on fire once. I can still see us running away. LOL ...
208 posted on 03/18/2010 3:55:40 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Borges

Another end of an era...My childhood hero along with “The Rifleman” Chuck Connors.


209 posted on 03/18/2010 3:58:36 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: FrdmLvr

That was the family TV hour. So the boys liked Davey Crockett but his sister, mom and dad liked it enough to watch it all together


210 posted on 03/18/2010 3:58:42 PM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: Borges

The Alamo, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett. Great shows all.
He’s a great loss. To the best of my knowledge, there no one in Hollyweird like him.


211 posted on 03/18/2010 4:16:30 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

As much as I still enjoy John Wayne’s “The Alamo”, Fess Parker is the best Davy Crockett on the small screen or the large. He and Walt Disney helped shape my interest in history, making me want to know more and actually read to learn real history.


212 posted on 03/18/2010 4:25:13 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Borges

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kweL_RUXXU4

Ballad song for Davy Crockett


213 posted on 03/18/2010 4:28:16 PM PDT by GulfWar1Vet
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To: oh8eleven

I remember being five or six and encountering “Davey” in full frontier regalia at the local drug store (also sold toys). I know now of course that it was just some tall guy in a costume but, then, for me, it was Davey.


214 posted on 03/18/2010 4:28:24 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: GulfWar1Vet

The Ballad of Davy Crockett was released on March 16, 1956.


215 posted on 03/18/2010 4:31:24 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Wpin

I heard this on the radio earlier today. Fess Parker will surely be missed. He brought us good, clean, wholesome entertainment. Not to mention, he was quite the hunk.

RIP Mr. Parker, and may God hold you lovingly in the palms of His hands for all eternity.


216 posted on 03/18/2010 4:32:44 PM PDT by Catsrus
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To: Borges

My uncle went to school with him in San Angelo, Tx, RIP


217 posted on 03/18/2010 4:55:12 PM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Conservatives must man up!!)
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To: fatnotlazy

LOL Yep I was another girl with a coonskin cap, I had the rifle too.


218 posted on 03/18/2010 4:55:50 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: blasater1960
Remember "Branded" with Chuck Connors? A man wrongly accused who fought to clear his name and restore his honor? Two great shows, The Rifleman and Branded.

Also, Bonanza.

219 posted on 03/18/2010 6:04:47 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: El Gato; Seeking the truth
I’ll be 62 this August but I feel older today somehow.

61 in November. I know exactly what you mean. End of an era... our era.

I'm just a youngster compaired to you two :), I'll be 60 in June. I had a Davy Crockett coonskin cap, fringed jacket, belt, and toy flintlock. Sad day.

Here is a pic of me in 1956 with my Davy Crockett belt on with Davy's flintlock on the buckle:

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220 posted on 03/18/2010 7:35:55 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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