Fess Parker, Star of “Daniel Boone” and “Davy Crockett”

Posted: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 2:07 pm

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 nationwide run on coonskin caps, died Thursday. He was 85. …

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