He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Texas on the G. Bill in , but by then he had developed a new interest: acting, and moved to Hollywood. One day, Disney offhandedly told Mr. Disney told Mr. Parker he had turned down the role on his behalf. But small acting jobs soon got in the way of that goal. Disney told Parker he had turned down the role on his behalf. But Parker was determined to play modern roles, preferably in romantic comedies.
They were really all animation. But the series was canceled after 26 weeks. In the fall of , Parker suddenly found himself being bombarded by an unusually high number of requests for autographs.
Disney, it turned out, had re-broadcast the three original Crockett episodes on his weekly TV series and the King of the Wild Frontier was again a hit with a new crop of young viewers. Thinking he could capitalize on his celebrity status, Parker interested producer Aaron Rosenberg in doing a weekly TV series with him starring as the frontiersman.
Instead, Parker and Rosenberg decided to do a TV series about another famous frontiersman. By the mids, Parker had a partnership in a large mobile-home park in Santa Barbara, where he was a longtime homeowner, as well as other real estate holdings, and he decided to turn his attention full time to his business interests. Although he had planned to live there and run cattle on the land, the climate and the soil were ideal for a vineyard.
But by , they had won more than 30 medals. The winery was a family affair. Because the land would be annexed by the tribe on sovereign land, The Times reported, the development would not have to adhere to county zoning laws and land-use regulations.
In October , however, Chumash leaders and Parker abandoned their development plans after they failed to agree on the size of the hotel, the value of the land and other details. Alan Crotty. Len Clinton - The Texas Sandman. Tom Conrad - Newspaper Publisher. Grat Dalton. Officer Harkness. Hide Show Director 1 credit.
Hide Show Producer 1 credit. Hide Show Soundtrack 9 credits. Robot TV Series performer - 1 episode - eps2. Went Old Betsy". Hide Show Thanks 3 credits. Hide Show Self 48 credits. Self - Guest Host. Self - Guest. Documentary short Self - as Davy Crockett. Hide Show Archive footage 10 credits. Self segment: Collection 1: Skateboards uncredited. Jim Coates. Del Hardy. James J. Show all 8 episodes. Related Videos. As a kid growing up in the s who drained his life savings to buy himself a coonskin cap, the name of Fess Parker is something pretty special to me.
It became a national craze exemplified by us kids wearing our coonskin headgear nearly 24 hours a day. Fess Parker himself crooned one of those hits. This time, his top-rated series ran for six years instead of just the handful of episodes of the Davy Crockett era. Several decades after all that Davy Crockett mania and Daniel Boone success, Parker was in the news again.
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