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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Davy Crockett is a five-part serial which aired on ABC in one-hour episodes on the Disneyland series. The series stars Fess Parker as real-life frontiersman Davy Crockett and Buddy Ebsen as his ...

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?

A California home originally owned by Hollywood actor Fess Parker — who was known for portraying the titular characters in Walt Disney’s “Davy Crockett’‘ and “Daniel Boone ...