RIP Fess Parker

[dallastx]

UT alum has died.

 

[lanceut]

He was a great guy and he certainly lived a great life. R.I.P.

 

[Third Coast]

After celebrating his golden wedding anniversary in January.

RIP king of the wild frontier.

 

[71grad]

Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and several Disney movies. I had the whole get up as a kid, the coonskin cap, rifle and knife.
I still have that toy knife. Its on a shelf next to my Hopalong Cassidy mug. Adios to a boyhood hero.

 

[hobbs4heisman]

I may be only 25 but davy crockett was my favorite movie growing up and fess parker was ultimate greatness. Rest in peace.

 

[watashi]

 

[bevosayshi]

RIP

 

[Doughbroz]

Still have the Crockett plate, bowl, and mug from the mid 50s. Good days. RIP, Davy.

 

[TexasRx]

Here's to you Fess. Cheers.

 

[RomaVicta]

RIP

Loved him as Davey when I was a kid.

 

[Giovanni Jones]

Davy Crockett was just a bit before my time. But I enjoyed watching ol' Fess in Daniel Boone

for laughs: Beany & Cecil spoof of Davy Crockett

Davey Cricket

 

[accuratehorn]

I was right there at ground zero, aged 5 or 6 when the Davy Crockett Disney shows came out. This was like Star Wars of today. We had to have the hats, the rifles, the buckskin shirts and the toys, the books, lunchboxes, you name it. It was a national mania.
RIP to Fess Parker, glad he had a long and seemingly happy and successful life. Didn't realize he was 6' 6" tall.
The obit said he grew up on a farm near San Angelo-anyone know what town was nearest there? Also, it mentioned a near-fatal stabbing after a road rage incident in the forties. I had never heard of that before.

 

[WorsterMan]

Very sad - another icon from my youth - RIP Fess Parker

 

[huisache]

Played the father in Old Yeller, too.

In the Great Locomotive Chase he stole a train and tore up tracks across the south while being chased by another train, The Texas, engineered by one of my other favorites, Slim Pickens.

Being a kid in the '50s was a lot of fun.