Fess Parker
Birthday: 1924-08-16
Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Biography: 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 the Walt Disney 1954–1955 TV miniseries, which aired on ABC, and as Daniel Boone in an NBC television series from 1964 to 1970. He was also known as a winemaker and resort owner-operator.
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Them!
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southw...
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American Gunmaker: The John M. Browning Story
Discover the remarkable life of John Moses Browning with host Fess Parker as he spans three generati...
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The Jayhawkers!
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republ...
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Old Yeller
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother whi...
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Hell Is for Heroes
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliatio...
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this ...
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The Great Locomotive Chase
During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South...
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Westward Ho, The Wagons!
The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised lan...
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The Light in the Forest
A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Native American tribe is sent to live with hi...
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The Hangman
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted c...
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a...
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Battle Cry
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story...
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida....
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Dragonfly Squadron
A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in a...
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Springfield Rifle
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go ...
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The Kid from Left Field
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But h...
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Harvey
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit ...
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No Room for the Groom
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night ar...
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The Bounty Hunter
A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find th...
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Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race
Davy and Georgie end a particularly successful season of trapping and hunting with the hopes of easy...
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Thunder Over the Plains
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, ...
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A Conversation with Fess Parker
“A Conversation with Fess Parker” (17:05) is another interview, edited almost exactly like the previ...
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Aftermath
Aftermath was the pilot for an unsold TV series called "The Code of Jonathan West"; it aired as part...
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Smoky
A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are sepa...
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Island in the Sky
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrad...
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'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic
Short documentary on the making of the Disney classic....
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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney,...
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Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn D...
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Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider
Daniel Boone leads a party of settlers into Kentucky to found the town of Boonesborough. Along the w...
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Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgi...
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Climb an Angry Mountain
Sheriff Elisha Cooper has to work with New York City officer Nelson after his son is taken hostage b...
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Alias Jesse James
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in que...
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The Disneyland Story
Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of ...
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John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes...
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Davy Crockett at the Alamo
The third of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him, Georgie and a riverboat gambler they me...
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Disney Through The Decades
features a look through the different decades of the disney company with old footage hosted by Disne...
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Året var 1956
1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in ...
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Behind the Scenes with Fess Parker
Fess Parker heads to the set of The Great Locomotive Chase in the Blue Ridge Mountains....
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Walt Disney Treasures - Davy Crockett
Experience the hit television show that became a national sensation and made coonskin caps a staple ...
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