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Fess Parker
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Actor Born: August 16, 1924 in Fort Worth, TX Biography:Tall, tousle-haired "Fess Parker" excelled in athletics while attending the University of Texas. First appearing in films in 1952, he enjoyed his first sizeable role -- a Southern-accented ballplayer -- in "The Kid From Left Field" (1953). It was his one-scene bit as a terrified witness to an "alien close encounter" in the 1954 horror classic "Them!" (1954) that brought Parker to the attention of "Walt Disney". Parker attained worldwide popularity when cast by Disney as Davy Crockett in a series of phenomenally successful TV specials. He remained on the Disney lot until 1959, starring in such films as "The Great Locomotive Chase" (1956), "Westward Ho, the Wagons!" (1957), "Old Yeller" (1957), and "Light in the Forest" (1958). His film stardom levelling off after 1959, Parker made a TV comeback in 1962 with an indifferent sitcom version of the old Capra flick "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1962). He... Full Biography
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