Davey Crockett dies

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R.I.P. Fess.I saw the movie when it came out and had the t-shirt and coon skin[fake]hat.My 6th.grade picture had me in my t-shirt.
 
What a Throwback. He and his wife were married for 50 years, he took the money he earned, invested it wisely.....
 
So Long

I, and several million other little boys, wanted to be just like Davey Crockett. And when we said Davey Crockett, we meant Fess Parker.

He represented a lot of good things to a bunch of little kids, and I'm glad he had a successful and long life.
 
A little bit of my heart died when I heard this. Man, Davy Crockett was my hero, first, last and always.

May he rest in peace, and he and Buddy Ebsen can be partners again.
 
R.I.P. Mr. Parker.

I thought he was a pretty good actor and liked him in the roles he played.

He will probably always be remembered for his Davy Crockett role, but he had some good movies too.

Old Yeller, The Dirty Dozen, None But The Brave. Just a few that come to mind.
 
I recall-Through A Glass Darkly-of having a kid's version of...Old Betsy!
 
I can't say good-bye to Fess Parker because he will always be part of me. He was a true gentleman, and he also made award winning wine. I had planned to take my girlfriend to visit his winery, and I was hoping to meet him and tell him how important he was to me. We will drink to his memory with a bottle of his wine.
 
WOW.
I had no idea Fess was still alive. How old was he?

Funny story-
I lived across the street from my grammar school. The house had the old, large "picture window" in the living room. The school was an old building that was a wood frame structure with brick veneer- just like a house was built. (NO- it wasn't ONE room :rolleyes:). It was actually a very large building, built in L shape with two long halls.
The night the last episode of Davey Crocket was on TV- the Alamo finale, smoke was seen coming from the school about the time the program started!!
Soon, the biggest fire many people had ever seen was shooting into the sky.
Talk about "torn between two lovers".....

I ran my butt off between that picture window and the TV, which was in the den on the back of the house!!
 
I grew up in Santa Barbara and ran into him a couple of times, once at a Los Tacos window (which actually served the best hamburgers ever: Yum!) and again at a freeway on-ramp where he made a less than observant entry in a car much bigger than mine. Well, actually I almost ran into him that time, or maybe he almost ran into me. No harm though.

After a successful acting career he had a successful business and property development career. He was pretty well respected in Santa Barbara County, though his plans for a kind of resort in the valley behind the coastal range got a lot of hostility from the locals who liked their area rural. I don't think that one ever got built.

He was a pleasant but reserved guy the one time I talked with him. My parents once met him at a party at some friends' house and had the same impression.

Lee, I think he was 85.

I never had the coonskin hat, but a lot of my friends did. When I was in Fourth Grade the teacher had to set aside 10 minutes every Thursday morning so the class could discuss the Disneyland broadcast from the night before. Davey Crockett episodes were always the subject of great enthusiasm.
 
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