PHOTOS: Fess Parker | 1924-2010
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Fess Parker | 1924-2010
Fess Parker's 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 nationwide run on coonskin caps.
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L.A. for less than the price of sunblock. 
Fess, what a marvelous legacy you left us. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1960s, there wasn't a kid around who didn't tune into "Daniel Boone" and sing along with its theme song in the opening credits... I even remember them playing "Davey Crocket" on reruns. Great stuff. Too bad tv, and in particular, Hollywood has sunk so incredibly low... They have replaced talent, good story telling and morality with mediocracy, sex and gay rights. Shameful. Rest In Peace, good brother.