Fess Parker

Fess Parker (born August 16, 1924) is an American film and television actor. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Parker is best known for his role playing frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone (TV series) as well as starting a fad of wearing coonskin hats. He served as a radioman in the Marine Corps at the end of World War II after being rejected as an aviator for being too tall (He is six feet, five inches).

Some films featuring Fess Parker

• Untamed Frontier (1952)
• Springfield Rifle (1952) -- not credited.
• Them (1954)
• Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
• Old Yeller (1957)
• The Light in the Forest (1958)
• The Jayhawkers (1959)
• Hell is for Heros (1962)