Fess Parker
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| 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) |
Trivia

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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