FESS PARKER DIES

One of my all-time heros! We own the Davy Crockett series on VHS and my kids watch it relentlessly as I did when I was little. Some of the cheesiest fight choreography you will EVER see and I wouldn't have it any other way!!!

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LOS ANGELES – Fess Parker, a television icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone, has died at the age of 85 of natural causes.

This guy in the earlier 50's (or whenever the show ran) was much more than a superstar he and his character where a cultural phenomenia, it did not last long but it was huge while it lasted. R.I.P.

Had me a 'coon skin cap growing up. And the theme song on a vinyl 45. Farewell, pioneer.

Honestly, I thought he died years ago.

So did I. I guess it's because he has been so invisible the last couple decades?

I remember him best from Old Yeller. RIP.

Know who this makes really sad? My Mom. Creepy.

RIP.

RIP. I had me a Crocket hat in elementary school. Meant the world to me.

Parker Lewis can't lose though dude.

The television station that I work for has a second digital channel. Its called RTV; Retro Television Network. Anyway, my job is to watch the channels all day to make sure that we stay on the air. One of RTV's shows is Daniel Boone. Needless to say over the last year and a half or so, I have become a huge fan of it.

I was sad to have heard this only an hour before the show was on today. RIP Fess Parker you seemed live a very upstanding kind of guy.

I used to watch his Crockett/Boone movies on The Wonderful World of Disney show.

"Davy, Daaaaaaa-vy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontieeeeeeeer..." used to watch the reruns of that show on "Wonderful World of Disney" when I was a kid. Good stuff. R.I.P. Fess! By the way, how cool is the name "Fess?"

Fat Freddy wrote:

By the way, how cool is the name "Fess?"

EXACTUALLY! IT'S WAY COOL DUDE!