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Fess Parker dies at 85; actor played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on TV

Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin caps, died Thursday. He was 85.

By Dennis McLellan

March 19, 2010

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