This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Fess Parker, the actor who portrayed frontiersman Davy Crockett as ...
The 19th-century American frontiersman and politician David “Davy” Crockett was born 230 years ago Wednesday, but not on “a mountaintop in Tennessee”—contrary to the first line of “The Ballad of Davy ...
LOS ANGELES — Fess Parker, the 6-foot-6 actor who, as TV’s Davy Crockett, launched a 1950s craze for coonskin caps, died of natural causes yesterday. He was 85. Parker, who was also TV’s Daniel Boone ...