Davy Crockett is gone. And the “three death” rule prevails.
Update: the LA Times article linked spoke of Parker’s “short TV career” without noting that Parker starred in the “Daniel Boone” series, which ran for six years.
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There are still a lot of the “good guys” of my youth still out there.
I still can find “Daniel Boone” on TV on Sundays. Alas, Fess Parker was one of those folks I thought had died years ago. He was a TV hero of my childhood. RIP Fess. I hope your long life was a happy one.
I was wondering about Fess Parker just the other day.
When we lived in Southern California, I remember going up to Santa Barbara where Parker owned some hotels and vineyards, what a beautiful area.
I really enjoyed his Daniel Boone series when I was a kid, what a great role model.
Did he play Daniel Boone? I thought it was Davy Crockett.
Lynne — It was both. Fess Parker played Davy Crockett for the “Disneyland” series in the 1950s, and then in the 1960s he was in the series “Daniel Boone” on ABC.
Apparently I missed those 6 years!
I heard that Fess Parker owned some property in Santa Barbara, and was rather conservative, or at least pro-development in his outlook (although not as outpoken about his politics as that other movie star transplant, Chuck Norris). He is definitely part of the American pantheon for his television work.
I hope that he’s wearing a halo made of coonskin in Heaven, if there is one, as we speak.
I loved Davy Crockett as a boy. I’m amazed the LA Times forgot he played Daniel Boone for so long on TV. I mean, isn’t the film industry sort of important to LA and all that?
I’m not surprised Fess was a conservative but I hadn’t heard that. Somebody recently corrected me about Clint Eastwood who is really more of a Rockefeller Republican. I have a hard time believing that anyone who could be convincing as Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone could mouth the idiocy that comes out of the mouths of today’s “conservative.”
I think I’ll seek out a bottle of Fess’s Chardonnay this weekend and drink to “Chardonnay drinking Fess Parker” this weekend.
I hope that he’s wearing a halo made of coonskin in Heaven, if there is one, as we speak.
If there is a one what? Coonskin halo, or a heaven?
Fess Parker and Davy Crockett brings back fond childhood memories for me. I remember getting a Davy Crockett cereal bowl as a reward for a good report card, and I’ll always remember the kindness and love Mrs. Magnoli gave to me when she bought me a Davy Crockett jacket so I wouldn’t be left out when she bought them for her own son’s. What a treasured memory!