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  1. Mar 18, 2010 · Thu 18 Mar 2010 19.30 EDT. The actor Fess Parker, who has died aged 85, was a quintessential westerner, a tall, rugged, Texas-born athlete turned actor, famous for his portrayals of two...

  2. Mar 19, 2010 · Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin...

  3. Mar 18, 2010 · Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family...

  4. Mar 18, 2010 · LOS ANGELES — Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide...

  5. Mar 19, 2010 · March 19, 2010. Fess Parker, whose television portrayal of the American frontiersman Davy Crockett catapulted him to stardom in the mid-1950s and inspired millions of children to wear coonskin...

  6. d23.com › about-legends › remembering-fess-parkerRemembering Fess Parker - D23

    Apr 10, 2018 · Fess Parker, the enormously popular actor who launched a coonskin cap craze in 1954 when he starred as Davy Crockett in the first of five hour-long episodes for Walt Disney’s Disneyland TV series, passed away at his home in California’s Santa Ynez Valley today, March 18, from age-related causes. He was 85 years old.

  7. Mar 18, 2010 · By. Frank James. Fess Parker, a name that will be immediately familiar to people of a certain age, say retirement age, died Thursday at age 85. Parker became a national icon as "Davy Crockett"...

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