How Walt Disney Almost Ruined Fess Parker's Career

Daniel Boone was made by 20th Century Fox Television, Arcola Enterprises, and Fess Parker's own Fespar Corp. Many people confuse the two television series as Daniel Boone was just a carbon copy of Disney's Davy Crockett. Boone wore a coonskin cap, toted a rifle, and even talked like Crockett.
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[@debbys-abqnm4537]

Boone (1734-1820) was an explorer/frontiersman but he also married and had a family, and he and his wife adopted many orphans (who apparently were easy to find in the wild lands of the Appalachians(?) at that time). Crockett (1786-1836) was also an explorer/frontiersman and politician and died at The Alamo. There were, no doubt probably thousands of men (and a few women?) just like them, but Boone and Crockett had better publicity agents maybe.... :)

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

@D Sullivan -- That very well could be! One would have to read all that was written about the two men individually, and expand the research to see what the population numbers of white men were out in the vast areas where they might have met even briefly. They might have heard of each other, but there weren't many methods of _verifiable_ communications back then. Letters, newspapers and books would take time to be made (or made up...) and then to be sent. I'm glad we have the internet!

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

@D Sullivan -- Theories can be great! Me, it appears that Boone was my great, great, x? grandfather, on my father's side, but I understand that the Boones and no doubt other frontier families adopted orphans, so who knows what person could be a direct ancestor or just in the right place at the right time? Also, due to the movie The Alamo, we learned that Crockett died in battle there.

[@EM-pp8gz]

I was a 5 year old boy when Fess Parker first played Davy Crockett in 1954. I lived in Morristown TN where the real Davy Crockett lived from age 6 to 20 with his parents and family. Davy's father had a combination tavern and lodging house in Morristown on the new stage road for travelers headed from Abingdon VA to Knoxville TN. Fess Parker even came to Morristown's 1955 Centennial Celebration, and at age 6 I had my picture taken with him! A treasured memory!

[@donaldvisconti5483]

We are contemporaries! I too was 5 years old, in early 1954, and turned 6 on 8/31 of that year. I remember the Davey Crocket Series, and felt bad when he died at the end of the final episode. They were kind enough not to show his death, and my mother looked it up in our encyclopedia, confirming that he was killed by the Mexicans, at the Alamo. The ending song went as follows: "Though the storybooks tell they were all cut low; But the truth of it is, this just ain't so; 'Cause their spirits will live, and their legends grow; So long as we remember the Alamo. Davey, Davey Crocket, Fighting for liberty!

[@outdoorlife5396]

That explains why he quit acting and started a winery and construction company. He was tired of being type cast, I think is what they call it

[@prycerobertson4695]

I'm partial to Fess Parker's portrayal of Daniel Boone. Arcola Enterprises was the company of producer Aaron Rosenberg, who did several movies besides Daniel Boone.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Wasn't Jeffery Hunter also in " The great locomotive chase " ?.

[@johnbockelie3899]

" Coonskin cap, .....why did it have to be a coonskin cap ?." Secret thoughts of Fess Parker playing Daniel Boone.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Veronica Cartwright got snagged over to " Lost in space" in 1965.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

@@johnbockelie3899 Sorry, no. That was her sister Angela, from The Sound of Music.

[@eliotreader8220]

@@johnbockelie3899 loved watching the Great locomotive chase on tv when I was younger

[@teastrainer3604]

Fess said Walt never paid him more than $500 a week! Fess finally got fed up and walked away from Disney, and even though he was still under contract, Walt didn't stop him. Walt would surely have been embarrassed if it ever came out how little he was paying Fess. Fess refused to play in Tonka because Sal Mineo would have been the star, and Fess said he had never even heard of him. For that matter, Fess barely appeared on camera in Old Yeller, and Tommy Kirk was much more the star than he was. Fess knew that roles like that were hurting his career. He said that when the preseason gala was held at NBC in 1964, Walt approached him, shook his hand and wished him good luck with Daniel Boone.

[@amadeusamwater]

In later life he was a successful winemaker.

[@iwasanangryyoungman]

Who? Parker or Boone?

[@amadeusamwater]

@@iwasanangryyoungman Fess Parker. Boone retired to Missouri to live with a grandson.

[@Tmanaz480]

I remember Boon's Farm wine. :-)

[@amadeusamwater]

@@Tmanaz480 Actually, the wine is sold under the fess Parker Family Winery name. They also sell coonskin caps.

[@sonnyprodigal480]

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[@stevenwiederholt7000]

2:07 I was a Security Policeman stationed at Osan in 1968. We would have these (fake) arguments about Daniel Boone splitting the tree. He won't split the tree this time!...Yes He Will!...I'll bet you a hundred dollars he won't! Good Times.

[@milicadjukich4416]

Very good, I and my children loved watching it. I. Wonder what WALT. Would say about DISNEY. If he was alive today?

[@kenpope5798]

Thanks for the info 👍

[@auggie803]

🖕---- Just kidding. I like all of these series.👍

[@4CardsMan]

We never watched Boone. Fess Parker visited the TV station where I worked, and my family showed up for a routine visit. Parker was shocked that my kids did not fawn over him

[@alanstrong55]

NBC was kind to produce Daniel Boone. Disney needs to shut its big bazew. Disney wrecked ABC news.

[@hellwithit]

But the bear was bigger so he ran like a ninja up a tree

[@schreckpmc]

I see you beat me to it.

[@jaelge]

So, Parker leaves Disney, essentially because he was getting tired of playing only Davy Crocket or similar characters, only to fall into playing Daniel Boone the remainder of his career? Well, I'm sure his earnings got better and he gained more creative control than when he was with Disney. I always liked ole Fess Parker.

[@albertrandall2271]

You and me both rest in Peace fess

[@schreckpmc]

But the bear was bigger so he ran like a (. ) up a tree.

[@milicadjukich4416]

It was a great family show, I. Guess WLt wasn,t really what we thought he was, very interesting.

[@davidrixon3549]

Disney 2022. He wasn't faaaaabilous enough duckies

[@freddybee4029]

The only loser here was greedy Walt Disney

[@patriotr.behnke3086]

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[@danielbradmacboleniii5601]

ROTFLMAO great work around

[@PaparazziParadise]

Please buy a decent microphone. The one you have sounds like it was assembled in Bangladesh. I watched two of your videos and both are too hard to understand.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

They weren't that bad. I can hear his fine. Slightly muffled but no big deal.

[@freddybee4029]

Get a new hearing aid