Fess Parker, who died on Thursday at the age of 85, was not only present at the creation of modern mass culture, he was smack dab in the middle of that creation. Before Elvis Presley, Beatlemania ...

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 ...

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 caps in one of ...

Fess Parker, who toplined such Disney classics as "Davy Crockett" and the NBC series "Daniel Boone" died in the Santa Ynez Valley on Thursday. He was 85.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fess Parker, a televison icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone, has died at the age of 85 of natural causes. Parker, who was also a maj… ...

SANTA YNEZ — 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 today of natural causes. He was 85 ...

Fess Parker, who starred as the coonskin-capped Davy Crockett in the 1950s, becoming a lifelong favorite of the baby boomers, died Thursday of natural causes at his home in California's Santa Ynez ...

Fess Parker, whose heroic television portrayal of Davy Crockett sparked an enduring mythology and one of the first Baby Boomer marketing frenzies, died Thursday in California of natural causes. He ...

LOS ANGELES — Fess Parker, 85, a televison icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone, has died of natural causes.

LOS ANGELES - 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 ...

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. Parker, who was also a major ...