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, who died on Thursday at the age of ... “The Simpsons” and “SpongeBob SquarePants,” there was Davy Crockett, the buckskin-wearing frontier hero whom Parker portrayed on Walt ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao ...

Fess Parker, best known for portraying Davy Crockett, “king of the wild frontier,” died on Thursday of natural causes, according to The Associated Press. He was 85. He died on the 84th ...

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 ...

This youthful obsession that swept the United States and the United Kingdom was inspired by the fur headgear worn by actor Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, the fabled 19 th-century frontiersman, in a ...

making Fess, Davy Crockett, and coonskin caps an overnight, national sensation." In the 1960s, Parker portrayed Daniel Boone in the long-running TV series. The centennial celebration of Parker’s ...

Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched a gazillion episodes of Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. Ah, who remembers the words to The Ballad of Davy Crockett?

Actor Fess Parker, who mesmerized children in the mid-1950s portraying frontiersman Davy Crockett on television and then won a new audience in the 1960s as Daniel Boone, died Thursday at 85 ...