The famous Davy Crocket, whom portayed by Fess Parker died on March 18 at the age of 85. This made him a TV and film star in the mid-1950’s.



In December 1954, Fess Parker launched the ‘Davy Crockett’ and greatly inpspire American fad for his trademark of using the coonskin cap for is character for the said show.


In the 1960’s, Fess Parker took his fame for the second time on his another TV program that starred him as “Daniel Boone,” another show about a frontiersman that wears a coonskin cap also. This series just ran the television scene for six seasons, from 1964 until 1970. After his show “Boone” concluded from airing, Parker would seldom to be seen on the small screen and found his way to become a real-estate developer and winemaker.


“I left the business after 22 years,” he told the AP in 2001. “It was time to leave Hollywood. I came along at a time when I’m starting out with Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Sterling Hayden and Gregory Peck. Who needed a guy running around in a coonskin cap?” (courtesy of mtv.com)


Parker died at his home in Santa Ynez Valley,California.