Fess Parker
Born: August 16, 1924 (in Fort Worth, TX)
Died: March 18, 2010 (in Santa Ynez, CA)
Spouse(s): Marcella Belle Rinehart (married, January 18, 1960 - 2010, his death)
Children: Ashley Allen Rinehart
Fess Elisha "Eli" Parker III
Height: 6'5"
Movies:
1950
Harvey (voice, uncredited)
1952
Springfield Rifle (uncredited)
Untamed Frontier
No Room for the Groom (uncredited)
1953
Thunder Over the Plains
Island in the Sky (uncredited)
The Kid from Left Field
Take Me to Town (uncredited)
1954
The Bounty Hunter (uncredited)
Them!
Dragonfly Squadron (uncredited)
1955
Battle Cry
1956
Westward Ho, the Wagons!
The Great Locomotive Chase
1957
Old Yeller
1958
The Light in the Forest
1959
The Jayhawkers!
Alias Jesse James (uncredited)
The Hangman
1962
Hell Is for Heroes
1966
Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider
1966
Smoky
1972
Climb an Angry Mountain
TV Shows:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale (1963)
The Andy Williams Show
- Episode #2.24 (1971)
Annie Oakley
- Annie and the Mystery Woman (1954)
- Annie and the Texas Sandman (1954)
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
- Episode #1.7 (1968)
Burke's Law
- Who Killed WHO IV? (1964)
CBS News Sunday Morning
- Episode dated February 27 (2005)
City Detective
- Hearts and Flowers (1955)
Daniel Boone (regular)
The Danny Kaye Show
- Episode #3.4 (1965)
The Dean Martin Show
- Episode #5.4 (1969)
- Episode #8.3 (1972)
Death Valley Days
- The Kickapoo Run (1954)
- Miracle at Whiskey Gulch (1962)
Della
- Episode #1.127 (1969)
Destry
- Destry Had a Little Lamb (1964)
The Disney Family Album
- Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen (1985)
Dragnet
- The Big Winchester (1954)
The Ed Sullivan Show
- Episode #9.24 (1956)
- Episode #10.18 (1957)
General Electric Theater
- Aftermath (1960)
The George Gobel Show
- Episode #3.3 (1956)
Here's Hollywood
- Episode #2.24 (1961)
Hollywood's Talking
- Episode #1.1 (1973)
James May's Road Trip
- Santa Barbara County (2007)
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
- Episode #1.7 (1969)
The Joey Bishop Show
- Episode #3.182 (1969)
- Episode #3.253 (1969)
The Jonathan Winters Show
- Episode #1.5 (1968)
The Juke Box Jury
- Episode dated November 23 (1956)
- Episode dated March 6 (1959)
- Episode dated June 12 (1959)
The London Palladium Show
- Episode #2.6 (1966)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (regular)
My Little Margie
- The All American (1954)
Pioneers of Television (TV Mini-Series documentary)
- Westerns (2011)
Playhouse 90
- Turn Left at Mount Everest (1958)
The Red Skelton Hour
- He Died with His Boots on Cause He Had Cold Feet to Start or He Died with
His Boots Off, That's Why He Stubbed His Toe (1970)
Schlitz Playhouse
- The Hasty Hanging (1958)
Startime
- Merman on Broadway (1959)
Stories of the Century
- The Dalton Gang (1954)
The Tin Pan Alley Show
- Episode #1.3 (1956)
Today
- Episode dated September 14 (1964)
- Episode dated August 25 (1969)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Episode #3.188 (1964)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color*
- The Disneyland Story (1954)
- Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter (1954)
- Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (1955)
- Davy Crockett at the Alamo (1955)
- The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland/A Tribute to Mickey Mouse (1955)
- Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race (1955)
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1955)
- Along the Oregon Trail (1956)
- Behind the Scenes with Fess Parker (1956)
- The Fourth Anniversary Show (1957)
What's This Song?
- Episode dated December 28 (1964)
- Episode dated January 1 (1965)
Other Film Work:
1955
Dateline: Disneyland (TV Special documentary)
1956
The 28th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Disneyland, U.S.A. (Documentary short)
1959
The 31st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
1971
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World (TV Movie documentary)
1974
The Fess Parker Show (TV Short)
1978
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (TV Movie documentary)
1985
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV Special)
1994
The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic (TV Movie documentary)
1997
Best Doggone Dog in the West: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Old Yeller' (Video documentary short)
2000
The De la Peña Diary (Video documentary)
2001
Disney Through the Decades (Video documentary short)
A Conversation with Fess Parker (Video documentary short)
2002
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic (Video documentary short)
2004
Alamo Mania (TV Movie documentary)
2006
Directed by Norman Foster (Video documentary short)
Regular Shows:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Sept. 1962 - Mar. 1963, 25 episodes)
Taking its name and basic scenario from a well-known 1939 movie starring James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was an interruption in Fess Parker's sequence of frontiersman roles; he plays Eugene Smith, a sincere -- but perhaps slightly naive -- man elected to the United States Senate.
Sandra Warner plays his wife, Pat, in nine out of twenty-five episodes, and Red Foley plays his uncle. Stan Irwin and Rita Lynn each appear in five episodes.
As far as I can tell, Mr. Smith is not available on DVD, though I believe prints still exist.
Daniel Boone (Sept. 1964 - May, 1970, 165 episodes)
With Fess Parker in the title role, Daniel Boone enjoyed a long and popular run on NBC during the '60s and into the first year of the '70s decade.
The show's storylines centered on frontiersman Daniel Boone's adventures, which took place mostly in the town he founded (Boonesborough, Kentucky). His wife, Rebecca, was played by Patricia Blair for the entire run of the series, and his son, Israel, was played by Darby Hinton, also for the entire run.
Boone's educated Indian companion was played by Ed Ames for the first four seasons. Other regulars include:
Jimmy Dean (seasons three through six)
Veronica Cartwright (seasons one and two)
Albert Salmi (season one), and
Rosey Grier (season six)
The entire series of Daniel Boone has been available on DVD, but currently only some seasons are available.
*A note on . . . .
Davy Crockett
Playing Crockett in five hour-long episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color launched Fess Parker to stardom, and sent much of American youth into a coonskin cap craze.
Buddy Ebsen played Crockett's sidekick, George E. Russel.
Davy Crockett originally was a sort of mini-series airing over Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, but all five episodes were also edited into two movies (Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates), and that's mostly how Davy Crockett is watched today.
Davy Crockett movies on DVD.
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