Fess Parker Dead at 85

[jgoo]

Fess Parker (aka Daniel Boone) died today at 85.

 

Huge fan of his from Daniel Boone and Disneyland. Another icon from my youth gone.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhYRDPG8Mu0&feature=related

[josephga]

damn i thought he was all ready dead.

[KMEM]

Let us not forget he also played Davy Crockett, one of TN's most well know personalities. Congressman, hunter and Volunteer who died at the Alamo, a "real" man.

 

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[JackTwist]

R.i.p.

 

He portrayed Davy Crockett, too, and was the dad in Old Yeller.

[Guest countryboywny]

I'm old enough to remember all his roles. RIP

[AdamSmith]

Slight hijack, but: Did anyone else have the hots for Darby Hinton, the actor who played Israel, Dan'l Boone's son?

 

As I am two years younger than he, I don't think it qualifies as pedophilia.

[Guest Spanky]

Slight hijack, but: Did anyone else have the hots for Darby Hinton, the actor who played Israel, Dan'l Boone's son?

 

As I am two years younger than he, I don't think it qualifies as pedophilia.

 

Is it this guy?

 

Then and now:

http://assets.mediaspanonline.com/prod/1257063/0906neboone_daniel2bwmw_w300.jpg

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n0WoJ25zxwk/SaxfcIO6yzI/AAAAAAAAAZc/VFapHXuxoNw/s320/Darby_Hinton.jpg

[KMEM]

I like the hat. Is that what got your attention, AS?

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[AdamSmith]

Among other things.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8d3IEMAos

[KMEM]

What about the Indian and the Scottish Laddie? I only wish I spoke English as well as the Indian.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

I don't know why you didn't have the hots for the whole lot.

[AdamSmith]

I don't know why you didn't have the hots for the whole lot.

 

Did I say that?

 

Just didn't remember the others until finding that clip. They were not recurring characters, that I recall.

[JT Brooklyn]

R.I.P. Fess...

[+ purplekow]

Just the night before on Wheel of Fortune, someone won a trip to Fess Parker's Vineyard Hotel in Northern California. I don't know anything about it, but they reported on the show that it was quite successful, was run by Fess and his wife and that they did some entertaining as well as hosting.

[seeker630]

I remember....

 

I'm old enough to remember all his roles. RIP

 

as a small child, I was a huge fan of his appearances as Davy Crockett on the Disneyland TV show. I had a coonskin cap and a plastic flintlock pistol. I also recall a bright-yellow 78-rpm vinyl record of the Davy Crockett theme song.

 

Many. many years later, at a dinner at a nice restaurant, I was shocked when the wine lover at the table ordered a bottle of a Fess Parker wine.

 

Here's an obituary from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fess-parker19-2010mar19,0,6863088,full.story

 

RIP, Fess.

[Luv2play]

In 1954 or 55 my family went to Washington, DC during the spring break and did all the usual things, visit the White House, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washingtoin Memorials, Smithsonian, Arlington Cemetery etc. But the only souvenirs we brought home were our slinkies and our coonskin caps, plastic pistols and holsters and some other paraphenalia related to Davy Crockett, which was a huge hit at that time even in Canada.

 

The slinkies are long gone but I still have the coonskin caps with the tails at our summer cottage, up in the kids' bedrooms.

 

I seem to remember that Disney altered the history of the Alamo but that was the way things were done then, to appeal to popular conceptions of the way history was portrayed. It was a different time. Couldn't be done today as it wouldn't pass the fact checks!

[seattlebottom]

This is so inappropriate but it reminds of the Golden Girls when Dorothy says that she winds up looking like Fess Parker in the family home movies.