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Fess Parker

Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tallulah Morehead

Happy New Year, darlings. All of you reading this piece have something in common: you survived 2010. Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.

Fess Parker: An American Icon Got Better With Age

Donald Liebenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Donald Liebenson

After a lifetime of taking bows for Davy Crockett, Fess Parker passes away at the age of 85.

American Originals

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Joe Peyronnin

Fess Parker will always be Davy Crockett to me. The American pioneer, trailblazer and hero of the Alamo as played by one of early television's stars.

Fess Parker, TV's 'Davy Crockett,' Dies At 85

AP | JEFF WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday o...