Mr. Parker's career then leveled off before he made a TV comeback from 1964-1970 in the title role of the TV adventure series Daniel Boone - also based on a real-life American frontiersman.

A longtime presence -- and sometimes controversial figure -- in Santa Barbara County, Parker had numerous real estate holdings in the area, including Fess Parker ... of your life,” he said.

Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family ...

Fess Parker became a hero to millions of young TV ... the Oscar-winning director of Disney-Pixar’s ‘Up’: ‘Meeting him was a real high point, and I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone ...

Fess Parker, best known for ... be miraculously revived for a further series. Parker repeated his TV success a second time, playing another real-life frontiersman in the title role of Daniel ...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV’s ...

Fess Parker ... faithful to at least one historical fact. The real-life Crockett died at the Alamo in 1836 at the age of 49, and Mr. Parker’s Crockett fell there, too. But Disney, responding ...

Fess Parker ... based on a real-life American frontiersman. Actor-singer Ed Ames, formerly of the Ames Brothers, played Boone's Indian friend, Mingo. After "Daniel Boone," Parker largely retired ...

No Fess. As a kid growing up in the 1950s who drained his life savings ... a battle, but Parker prevailed and in 1986, the Fess Parker Red Lion Inn became a reality and a real asset to Santa ...

including Fess Parker Winery and the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn & Spa at Los Olivos (Santa Barbara County). They also own commercial real estate in Santa Barbara, where he plans to build a hotel ...

The free event will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday and 2-4 p.m. Saturday in the fort’s Quartermaster building, Flipper Street at East Avenue C. "While born in Fort Worth in on August 16, 1924, Fess ...

LOS ANGELES — Fess ... on a real-life American frontiersman. Actor-singer Ed Ames, formerly of the Ames Brothers, played Boone’s Indian friend, Mingo. After “Daniel Boone,” Mr. Parker ...