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.
Yes. See reply #29
That was Clint Walker
>>>>>> I could not get to that line...lol.....though now that you recite it I remember it!
I slept with my coonskin hat.
“...I remember how BIG it was to have a coonskin hat. (And a Zorro sword set after the 1958-59 Disney Zorro series aired.)...”
I won first prize at a Cub Scout Halloween party dressed as Zorro...(Won a dollar..)*L*
LOL
Actually we shouldn’t laugh. Traficant may be running for dog catcher or something.
“Fess Parker — who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone”
Well no wonder I always got those shows mixed up!
Had the hat.
He had a small part in the movie “Them!”.
You didn't need the record it was played everywhere all the time.
(I had the coonskin cap)
I even had one of those caps. Dad bought one for my brother and one for me. Mom was upset — no girl should be wearing a coonskin cap. She got over it though. LOL
Been watching his Daniel Boone shows on Retro TV for a couple months now and have been not only intriqued but heartened that the “American” storylines and characters (Daniel, his family, Mingo and assorted friends and associates ...including some Native Americans) show much integrity, honesty, keep their word, are genuine, hard working, earnest and neighborly. Fess Parker was a “natural” at this (being a genuine, honest, real American)!
Fess is the same age as my father, as tall and built the same..., my father, Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket and Fess Parker were my heros growing up, wise, wonderful men I could look up to! Sad at Fess Parker’s passing. Prayers for his family.
One of the very few decent actors!
Made some of the best kids films ever.
There’ll be a pall over Santa Barbara today.
Parker was in the Dirty Dozen too was he not?
I used my brother’s tan leather fringe jacket and genuine coonskin cap with snap-off tail. I played Davy Crockett in the yard with a toy gun (even if gun was cowboy era lever action instead of a musket.
I also had my very own Zorro set with chalk that went on the sword tip for making a Z.
Wonder what the demographic percentages are for FReepers?
Bet 90% are 75 and over;) LOL!!!
People of my generation (born 1947) will remember that when we were kids Fess Parker was just about the biggest star around. And they will also remember that the lessons of Davy Crocket were lessons about honesty, courage, hard work, loyalty and liberty. These virtues are still taught in the wild back woods of our media but you have to hunt for them. It was Disney that brought Davy Crocket to us. Today Disney celebrates diversity by opening its gates once a year to a homosexuals only day at Orlando and maybe other of its theme parks. If Disney made Davy Crocket today he would be portrayed as backwoods bumpkin who murdered gentle native americans for sport or to exploit them and who was a racist who hated the red man and Mexicans and who worked to steal land from both.
Yes! I had a 45 RPM record it was yellow. I may still have it. And the coon skin cap!
That was Clint Walker...
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