Fess Parker
Biography
16 August 1925, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. An actor and singer, Parker did some stage work before making his film debut in 1952 in Untamed Frontier, a western starring Joseph Cotton and Shelley Winters. Two years later he appeared as the famous Indian scout-legislator-Alamo defender Davy Crockett, in three episodes of the television series Disneyland. The shows were extremely popular, and the theme, The Ballad Of Davy Crockett, written by scriptwriter Tom Blackburn and George Bruns,... Read more