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.

The late Dan Kilgore, a Corpus Christi accountant, was president of the Texas State Historical Society when he gave an address in 1975 about the circumstances of Davy Crockett's death.

In 1955, Crockett was reborn as the biggest thing to ever to hit television. Walt Disney made two Crockett TV movies with Parker (who comments briefly in this documentary) as Davy. Advertisement ...

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 major California winemaker a… ...

Even after his death, legend surrounding Crockett grew so large that it spawned a Disney TV miniseries in the 1950s and a popular song titled “The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” ...

It was Parker’s scene as a terrified witness in the horror classic “Them!” that caught the attention of Walt Disney when he was looking for a “Davy Crockett” star.