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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 19 > Fess Parker, TV’s Davy Crockett, dies at 85

Fess Parker, TV’s Davy Crockett, dies at 85

By Matt Schudel / The Bulletin
March 19, 2010

Fess Parker, 85, who launched a nationwide craze of coonskin caps and toy rifles in the mid-1950s with his TV portrayal of rugged frontiersman Davy Crockett, and later starred as Daniel Boone in another TV buckskin drama, died March 18 at his home near Santa Barbara, Calif., where he had been a....

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