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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (October 22 [November 2 new style], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Kentucky), which was then beyond the western borders of the settled part of Thirteen Colonies (This region legally belonged to both the Commonwealth of Virginia and to the American Indian Tribes.) Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775 Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains - from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. There he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 European people migrated to Kentucky/Virginia by following the route marked by Boone.
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Davy Crockett
David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and after the 1950s by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier.” He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo.
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Ed Ames
Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor. He is best known for his pop and adult contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow is on the Roses" and the perennial "My Cup Runneth Over." He was part of a popular 1950s singing group called The Ames Brothers.
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Gail Davis
Gail Davis (October 5, 1925 – March 15, 1997) was an American actress, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television Western series Annie Oakley.
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George Gobel
George Leslie Gobel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American comedian and actor. He was best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, which ran from 1954 to 1960 (the last season on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program).
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Grat Dalton
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James Arness
James Arness (born May 26, 1923) is an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for 20 years. His brother was the late actor, Peter Graves. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Marshal Matt Dillon in five separate decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-TV Gunsmoke movies in the 1990s.
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Jim Davis (actor)
Jim Davis (August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS prime-time soap Dallas, a role which he held up until his death in April 1981.
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Jimmy Hawkins
James F. Hawkins, known as Jimmy Hawkins and, later, Jim Hawkins (born November 13, 1941), is an American actor and film producer whose career began as a child actor to such Hollywood stars as Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, and Donna Reed. His acting career spans the time frame from 1943-1974, after which he devoted his energies to the production of films and later to his building contracting business. Hawkins had starring roles in several television series: The Ruggles (1949-1952), Annie Oakley (1954-1957, syndicated), The Donna Reed Show (1958-1966, ABC), and Petticoat Junction (CBS, the first four seasons, 1963-1967). He also had recurring roles as (1) a friend of the Nelson brothers on ABC’s The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and (2) as Jonathan Baylor on CBS's Ichabod and Me sitcom with Robert Sterling and George Chandler in the 1961-1962 season. He guest starred in many other programs during his childhood and young adult years.
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Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He is associated with Orson Welles, leading to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). He was a star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945) and Portrait of Jennie (1948).
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Patricia Blair
Patricia Blair (born January 15, 1931) is an American television and film actress, primarily on 1950s and 1960s television. She is probably best known as Lou Mallory on the classic Western series The Rifleman where she co starred in 22 episodes with Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and veteran actor Paul Fix; and as Rebecca Boone in all six seasons of NBC's Daniel Boone, with co-stars Fess Parker, Darby Hinton, Veronica Cartwright, and Ed Ames.
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Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over fifty years, until her death in 2006. Two-time Academy Award winner, Winters is probably most remembered for her roles in A Place in the Sun, The Big Knife, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, and The Poseidon Adventure.
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Veronica Cartwright
Veronica A. Cartwright (born 20 April 1949) is an English-born actress who has worked mainly in American film and television.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
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Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. Originally, and still often colloquially, called Disneyland, it was dedicated with a televised press preview on July 17, 1955, and opened to the general public on July 18, 1955. Disneyland holds the distinction of being the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney himself. In 1998, the theme park was re-branded "Disneyland Park" to distinguish it from the larger Disneyland Resort complex.
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Fort Worth is the seventeenth-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Located in and the western edge of the American South, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and Wise counties, serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2010 census estimates, Fort Worth had a population of 727,575. It has been estimated that by 2030 it will have 1,211,665 residents. The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the region.
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Mason is a city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, Mason's population was 22,016, and as of 2009, is about 30,000. It was the fastest-growing and most populous city in the county and is part of the Greater Cincinnati MSA. Until February 1997, it was part of Deerfield Township.
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San Angelo () is an American city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2009 according to an estimate published by the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total population of 92,147. The San Angelo metropolitan area consists of Tom Green and Irion counties and had a population of 108,085 according to 2007 Census estimates.
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Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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Parker, Fess Filmography
- Directed by Norman Foster (2006) (actor, plays Himself)
- Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years (2005) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- (2005-02-27) (2005) (actor, plays Himself)
- Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years (2005) (actor, plays Himself)
- Alamo Mania (2004) (actor, plays Himself)
- 'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic (2002) (actor, plays Himself)
- A Conversation with Fess Parker (2001) (actor, plays Himself)
- Disney Through the Decades (2001) (actor, plays Host - 1950's)
- The De la Peña Diary (2000) (actor, plays Himself)
- Best Doggone Dog in the West: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Old Yeller' (1997) (actor, plays Himself - Host)
- The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic (1994) (actor, plays Himself)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (1986) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Old Yeller: Part 1 (1980) (actor, plays Jim Coates)
- Old Yeller: Part 2 (1980) (actor, plays Jim Coates)
- NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (1978) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Fess Parker Show (1974) (actor, plays Fess Hamilton)
- (#1.1) (1973) (actor, plays Himself)
- (1972-09-28) (1972) (actor, plays Himself)
- Climb an Angry Mountain (1972) (actor, plays Sheriff Elisha Cooper)
- (1971-03-17) (1971) (actor, plays Himself)
- Mamma Cooper (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- How to Become a Goddess (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Homecoming (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Perilous Passage (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Before the Tall Man (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Readin', Ritin', and Revolt (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Landlords (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Noblesse Oblige (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Israel and Love (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Bringing Up Josh (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Run for the Money (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- An Angel Cried (1970) (director, plays Daniel Boone)
- Sunshine Patriots (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Matter of Vengeance (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- An Angel Cried (1970) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Allies (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Love and Equity (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Jonah (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Hannah Comes Home (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Hannah Comes Home (1969) (director, plays Daniel Boone)
- To Slay a Giant (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Three Score and Ten (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Traitor (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Terrible Tarbots (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Road to Freedom (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Printing Press (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Man (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Grand Alliance (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Bearskin for Jamie Blue (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Man Before His Time (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Pinch of Salt (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Cache (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Tall Tale of Prater Beasley (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Touch of Charity (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Very Small Rifle (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Benvenuto... Who? (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Bickford's Bridge (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Target Boone (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Copperhead Izzy (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Sweet Molly Malone (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- For a Few Rifles (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- For Want of a Hero (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Minnow for a Shark (1969) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away? (1968) (director, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Patriot (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Bait (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Plague That Came to Ford's Run (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Plague That Came to Ford's Run (1968) (director, plays Daniel Boone)
- Flag of Truce (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Fort New Madrid aka the Spanish Fort (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Hero's Welcome (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Return of the Sidewinder (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Witness (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away? (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Thirty Pieces of Silver (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Blackbirder (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Orlando, the Prophet (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Faith's Way (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Far Side of Fury (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Flaming Rocks (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Fleeing Nuns (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Imposter (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Patriot (1968) (director, plays Daniel Boone)
- Nightmare (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Big, Black and Out There (1968) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Value of a King (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Matter of Blood (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Beaumarchais (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Bitter Mission (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Chief Mingo (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Delo Jones (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Fort West Point (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Secret Code (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Take the Southbound Stage (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Ballad of Sidewinder and Cherokee (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Desperate Raid (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Fallow Land (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Inheritance (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Jasper Ledbetter Story (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The King's Shilling (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Long Way Home (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Necklace (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Ordeal of Israel Boone (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Renegade (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Spanish Horse (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Traitor (1967) (actor, plays Himself - Guest)
- The Williamsburg Cannon: Part 1 (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Williamsburg Cannon: Part 2 (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Wolf Man (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Young Ones (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things (1967) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- (1968-01-24) (1967) (actor, plays Clint Barkley)
- The Gun (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The High Cumberland: Part 1 (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The High Cumberland: Part 2 (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Fifty Rifles (1966) (actor, plays Himself)
- Smoky (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Trap (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Run a Crooked Mile (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Symbol (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Search (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- (#2.6) (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Loser's Race (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Lost Colony (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Prisoner (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Matchmaker (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Crisis by Fire (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- First in War, First in Peace (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Requiem for Craw Green (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Gabriel (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Cibola (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Onatha (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Deserter (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Goliath (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- River Passage (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Enchanted Gun (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Accused (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Grizzly (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Fifth Man (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Allegiances (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Seminole Territory (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Gun-Barrel Highway (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- When a King Is a Pawn (1966) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Tamarack Massacre Affair (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Cry of Gold (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Aaron Burr Story (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Cain's Birthday: Part 2 (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Cain's Birthday: Part 1 (1965) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Ben Franklin Encounter (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Rope for Mingo (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Christmas Story (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Courtship of Jericho Jones (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Devil's Four (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- (1969-10-09) (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The First Beau (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The First Stone (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Place of 1000 Spirits (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Hostages (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Mound Builders (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Old Man and the Cave (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Peace Tree (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Price of Friendship (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Prophet (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Quietists (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Returning (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Reunion (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Sound of Fear (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Thanksgiving Story (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Tortoise and the Hare (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Trek (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Four-Leaf Clover (1965) (actor, plays Himself)
- My Name Is Rawls (1965) (actor, plays Herman Sitwell)
- Empire of the Lost (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Perilous Journey (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Doll of Sorrow (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Daughter of the Devil (1965) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- (1964-09-14) (1964) (actor, plays Himself)
- Who Killed WHO IV? (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Tekawitha McLeod (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- A Short Walk to Salem (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Pompey (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- Not in Our Stars (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- (1964-12-28) (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Sisters O'Hannrahan (1964) (actor, plays Himself)
- My Brother's Keeper (1964) (actor, plays Clarence Jones)
- The Family Fluellen (1964) (actor, plays Daniel Boone)
- The Choosing (1964) (actor, plays Senator Eugene Smith)
- Ken-Tuck-E (1964) (actor, plays Himself-Guest)
- The Sound of Wings (1964) (actor, plays Sheriff Ben Wister)
- (1964-09-14) (1964) (actor, plays Senator Eugene Smith)
- Destry Had a Little Lamb (1964) (actor, plays Sen. Eugene Smith)
- Lac Duquesne (1964) (actor, plays Reverend Joel Todd)
- The Resurrection of Winesap Corners (1963) (actor, plays Sgt. Pike)
- (1965-10-06) (1963) (actor, plays Senator Eugene Smith)
- Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale (1963) (actor, plays Senator Eugene Smith)
- Think Mink (1963) (actor, plays James J. Andrews)
- High Society (1963) (actor, plays Del Hardy)
- Miracle at Whiskey Gulch (1962) (actor, plays John 'Doc' Grayson)
- Hell Is for Heroes (1962) (actor, plays Himself)
- Man's Best Friend (1962) (actor, plays Del Hardy)
- The Senator Baits a Hook (1962) (actor, plays John 'Doc' Grayson)
- Andrews' Raiders: Secret Mission (1961) (actor, plays James J. Andrews)
- The Light in the Forest: True Son's Revenge (1961) (actor, plays Jonathan West)
- Westward Ho the Wagons!: White Man's Medicine (1961) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Merman on Broadway (1961) (actor, plays Cam Bleeker)
- The Light in the Forest: Return of the True Son (1961) (actor, plays Sheriff Buck Weston)
- Westward Ho the Wagons!: Ambush at Wagon Gap (1961) (actor, plays Pvt. Linus Powell)
- Andrews' Raiders: Escape to Nowhere (1961) (actor, plays Del Hardy)
- Aftermath (1960) (actor, plays Jim Coates)
- Alias Jesse James (1959) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Jayhawkers! (1959) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Hangman (1959) (actor, plays Himself - as Davy Crockett)
- Turn Left at Mount Everest (1958) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Light in the Forest (1958) (actor, plays James J. Andrews)
- The Hasty Hanging (1958) (actor, plays John 'Doc' Grayson)
- Old Yeller (1957) (actor, plays Himself)
- (#10.18) (1957) (actor, plays John 'Doc' Grayson)
- The Fourth Anniversary Show (1957) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Disneyland, U.S.A. (1956) (actor, plays James J Andrews)
- Behind the Scenes with Fess Parker (1956) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Along the Oregon Trail (1956) (actor, plays 'Davy Crockett')
- (#9.24) (1956) (actor, plays Pvt. Speedy)
- Westward Ho the Wagons! (1956) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Behind the Scenes with Fess Parker (1956) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Dateline: Disneyland (1955) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Dateline: Disneyland (1955) (actor, plays Harkness)
- Battle Cry (1955) (actor, plays Himself)
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1955) (actor, plays Texas Lieutenant)
- Davy Crockett at the Alamo (1955) (actor, plays Davy Crockett)
- Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (1955) (actor, plays Curt Morrison)
- Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race (1955) (actor, plays Alan Crotty)
- The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland/A Tribute to Mickey Mouse (1955) (actor, plays Les Clinton - The Texas Sandman)
- The Big Winchester (1954) (actor, plays Grat Dalton)
- The Disneyland Story (1954) (actor, plays Tom Conrad - Newspaper Publisher)
- Dragonfly Squadron (1954) (actor, plays Wild Cowboy at Finale)
- Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter (1954) (actor, plays Himself)
- The Kickapoo Run (1954) (actor, plays Kirby)
- Them! (1954) (actor, plays Long John)
- Annie and the Texas Sandman (1954) (actor, plays Fitch's Co-Pilot)
- The Dalton Gang (1954) (actor, plays McDougal)
- Annie and the Mystery Woman (1954) (actor, plays Clem McCloud)
- The Bounty Hunter (1954) (actor, plays Jim Randolph)
- (#3.3) (1954) (actor, plays Cousin Ben)
- Thunder Over the Plains (1953) (actor, plays Himself)
- Take Me to Town (1953) (actor, plays Voice of Leslie the Chauffeur)
Fess Parker
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Coordinates | 40°26′30″N80°00′00″N |
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name | Fess Parker |
birth name | Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. |
birth date | August 16, 1924 |
birth place | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
death date | March 18, 2010 |
death place | Santa Ynez, California, U.S. |
occupation | ActorWinemakerResort owner-operator |
spouse | (his death) 2 children |
years active | 1950–1974 (acting) |
website | http://www.fessparker.com/ }} |
Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010) was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in Walt Disney 1955-56 TV mini-series and as TV's Daniel Boone from 1964-70. He was also known as a wine maker and resort owner-operator.
The Fess Parker Winery is one of the wineries along the famous Foxen Canyon Wine Trail.
Early years
Fess Parker was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up on a farm near San Angelo. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the latter part of World War II, hoping to become a pilot. He was turned down because he was too tall at . He then tried to become a radioman gunner, but he was found too big to fit comfortably into the rear cockpit. He was finally transferred to the Marine Corps as a radio operator and shipped out for the South Pacific shortly before the atom bomb ended the war.Discharged in 1946, he enrolled in Hardin-Simmons on the GI Bill. He was stabbed in the neck by another driver during a post-collision argument. He was an active member of the H-SU Players Club and transferred to the University of Texas in 1947 as a history major and continued to be active in dramatics. Parker graduated from the University of Texas in 1950 with a degree in history. He had been initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Having one year remaining on his GI Bill, he studied drama at the University of Southern California, working towards a master's degree in theater history.
Career
Parker began his show-business career by summer 1951 when he had a $32-a-week job as an extra in the play Mister Roberts, although he is credited with the voice of Leslie, the chauffeur, in the 1950 film Harvey. Within months, he was on location with a minor part in Untamed Frontier with Joseph Cotten and Shelley Winters.Parker became a contract player with Warner Brothers appearing in small roles in several films such as Springfield Rifle (1952), Island in the Sky, The Bounty Hunter and Battle Cry. In 1954, he appeared as Grat Dalton in the Jim Davis western anthology Stories of the Century in the episode The Dalton Brothers.
Davy Crockett
According to Parker himself, when the Walt Disney Company was looking for an actor to play Davy Crockett, they originally considered James Arness for the title role. Parker had recently graduated to a contract weekly actor, but listened to his agent and appeared in a B movie called Them! which required only one day's work. He had a small scene in the movie as a pilot put into an insane asylum after claiming his plane had been downed by giant flying insects. Arness appeared in a larger role in the same film.During a screening of this film Walt Disney looked past Arness and discovered Parker. Disney was impressed by Parker's portrayal of a man who was unswerving in his belief in what he saw despite the forces of authority against him. Parker was asked to drop by the Disney Studio. When he did, he brought his guitar, met Disney, sang a song, then said goodbye. Several weeks later he was told he had been selected over Arness and several other actors for the role, including Buddy Ebsen who eventually played Crockett's companion, George Russell.
Disney's three episode version of Crockett depicted his exploits as a frontiersman, congressman, and tragic hero of the Alamo. It has been called the first television miniseries, though the term had not yet been coined. Davy Crockett (1955–56) was a tremendous hit and led to a merchandising frenzy for coonskin caps and all things Crockett.
Parker became a contract star for Disney and appeared in The Great Locomotive Chase, Westward Ho, the Wagons!, Old Yeller, and The Light in the Forest. He complained they were all basically the same role. Disney refused to loan Parker for roles outside of that persona, such as The Searchers and Bus Stop.
Parker made guest appearances on many television programs, and composed and sang. He performed the occasional role of Tom Conrad, editor of the Diablo Courier in the syndicated western series, Annie Oakley (1954–1957), starring Gail Davis, Brad Johnson, and Jimmy Hawkins. In 1962, he starred in the title role of the TV series Mr Smith Goes to Washington. Parker took to the stage in 1963, in a traveling production of Oklahoma! as 'Curly'. The movie roles he sought were elusive.
Daniel Boone
Parker's Daniel Boone television series portraying another historic figure of America's frontier days began filming in 1964. Over its six years (1964 to 1970) as one of the highest rated shows of its time, Parker was not only the star of the series but also the co-producer and director of five of its most popular episodes.Ironically, having been under contract to Disney, Parker became interested in opening a Davy Crockett-themed amusement park. In the late 1960s, he optioned land in northern Kentucky at the confluence of Interstate 71 and Interstate 75, with the intention of building Frontier World. However, when the Taft Broadcasting Company of Cincinnati, Ohio began building Kings Island Amusement Park in nearby Mason, Ohio, less than a 2-hour drive from Parker's site, financing for Parker's venture dried up.
Turning down the title role of McCloud, Parker retired from the film industry in the 1970s, after a short-lived 1974 sitcom, The Fess Parker Show.
Awards
Fess Parker was nominated for best new personality Emmy in 1954, but lost to George Gobel. He was never nominated again, nor was his show Daniel Boone.In 2003, Parker received the Texas Cultural Trust's "Texas Medal of Arts Award", established only the year before.
For his work with Disney, Parker was honored in December 2004 with his own tribute window on a façade in the Frontierland section of Disneyland.
Fess Parker Winery
After his acting career, Parker devoted much of his time to operating his Fess Parker Family Winery and Vineyards in Los Olivos, California. The winery is owned and operated by Parker's family, and has produced several different types of award-winning wines. Parker's son, Eli, is President and Director of Winemaking & Vineyard Operations while daughter, Ashley, is Vice President of Marketing & Sales.The Parker operation includes over of vineyards, and a tasting room and visitor center along the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail. In addition to wine, the winery is known for selling coon skin caps and bottle toppers, inspired by Parker's Crockett and Boone characters, and for appearing in the movie Sideways.
In a reminiscence of his acting days, Parkers' wine labels have a logo of a golden coonskin cap.
Personal life
Parker married Marcella Belle Rinehart on January 18, 1960. They had two children — Fess Elisha III and Ashley Allen Rinehart — along with 11 grandchildren and a great-grandson.
Death
According to a spokesperson, Parker died of natural causes on March 18, 2010, at his home in Santa Ynez, California, near the Fess Parker Winery.He was buried with his parents in Santa Barbara Cemetery, in Santa Barbara, California.
Filmography
Television
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