Known for:	Old Yeller, The Great Locomotive Chase, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Birth name:	Fess Elisha Parker. Jr.
Birthday:	16 August 1925, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Height:	6' 5" (1.96 m)

Graduate of The University of Texas at Austin - BA '50 Played college football at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX in the 1940s before transferring to the University of Texas-Austin. Parker was named a Disney Legend in 1991. Discovered by Adolphe Menjou who was a guest artist at the University of Texas while Fess was a student. Menjou helped him with formal introductions when he first got to Hollywood. Retired from Hollywood in 1973; among his successful California businesses are an ocean-front resort in Santa Barbara; a 21-room inn in Los Olivos; and an award-winning winery. At the time he was famous in France for his Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone roles, French distributors found they had to rename him - on posters, in TV programmers...etc. - for the French audience/ Public, into "Fier" Parker. One must know that "fesse(s)", in French, means "buttocks, bottom", whereas "fier" means "proud" ; a more becoming name for someone embodying American "Heroes"... Walt Disney would not let Parker out of his contract, so he had to turn down a part in The Searchers.

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