When I hear the names Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, I think of the late Fess Parker, who portrayed the legendary frontiersmen in movies and TV series in the 1950s and 1960s. While on vacation in ...

Fess Parker, best known for portraying Davy Crockett ... frontiersman in the title role of Daniel Boone, from 1964 to 1970. Parker had wanted to do a Crockett series, but Disney wouldn ...

Fess Parker, who starred as the coonskin-capped Davy Crockett in the 1950s ... attained a second stardom as the lead on NBC’s Daniel Boone and as owner of the Fess Parker Winery and the ...

If you grew up in the United States in the 1950s or ‘60s and watched television, you probably remember Fess Parker, the 6-foot-6 actor who first played Davy Crockett and then Daniel Boone for ...

Fess Parker struck ratings gold again in a coonskin cap, this time as “Daniel Boone.” Like his previous hero, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone was one of American’s greatest real life folk heroes.

When I hear the names Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, I think of the late Fess Parker, who portrayed the legendary frontiersmen in movies and TV series in the 1950s and 1960s. While on vacation in ...

Fess Parker, whose heroic television portrayal of Davy Crockett sparked an enduring ... hit a decade later with another Old West hero, Daniel Boone. Parker played Boone from 1964 to 1970, but ...

See About archive blog posts. 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 ...