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Thu 18 Mar, 2010 04:00 pm
He had a smile that could charm a coon out of a tree, Walt Disney decided, and he hired Fess Parker in the role of Davy Crockett. It was a series of five made for TV episodes that became as popular then as was Star Wars to a later generation. Parker later starred in The Great Locomotive Chase and a few other films. He starred as Daniel Boone in a TV series. Parker was 82.
@edgarblythe,
did he die?
he can't die...
dammit. RIP daniel boone.
My first TV hero.
Joe(r.i.p.)Nation
@Rockhead,
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/03/18/fess.parker.obit/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
'Fraid so, Rock. I remember him as Davy Crockett more'n ole Dan'l Boone.
RIP.
Him and Buddy Epsen..."Give 'em hell Davy"
My earliest memory of an event in public was seeing Fess Parker's mug spread across the big screen at a theater.
@edgarblythe,
It sounds like he did quite well in his later life as a wine maker and real estate developer.
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