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Fess Parker
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A former college athlete at the University of Texas, Fess studied drama in the early fifties and debuted in Springfield Rifle (1952). He made only a handful of movies until he was signed by Walt Disney to star in the "Davy Crockett" series. When Walt was looking for an actor to play the part of Davy, he screened the sci-fi movie Them! (1954) with James Arness. When he saw Fess in a scene, he chose him over Arness and Fess became an instant celebrity when "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" debuted in 1955. His appeal with children was enormous with the coon-skinned hat, the #1 hit song "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett", The Davy Crockett Bubble Gum Cards and Comic Books. But the craze ended almost as fast as it started in 1956, and Fess was typecast. Fess appeared in other Disney movies dealing with the early years of Davey and also in non-Crockett parts such as Old Yeller (1957). By 1959, unable to achieve the success that he had gained as Crockett, his career had leveled off. He made guest appearances on a number of television shows, but his attempted return to television in the series Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1962) was not successful. Unable to procure the rights to play Crockett from Disney, Fess tried the frontiersman role once agai
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Clint Walker, Star of “Cheyenne”
Today we celebrate Clint Walker (1927-2018), who passed away just a couple of years ago. Walker was a star I particularly liked. He had a kind of personality that convinced you he was uncomplicatedly good (sort of clean-cut, all-American) combined with the fact (and I’m not ashamed to say it) that he was a perfect specimen of physical manhood, not just handsome, but insanely large: six foot six inches tall, and yet perfectly proportioned, not skinny or fat as such tall men usually are (e.g., Fess Parker and Jimmy Stewart on the thin side, and all those ex-football players on the fat side). His arms were like most beefy guys’ legs. It’s fairly crazy that he wasn’t tapped to play Superman — he would have made a better Superman than any other actor I can think of, including the guys who actually played him. The extremism of his physique definitely paves the way for, say, a Schwarzenegger, although Walker’s size was seldom exploited in that way or to that extent (although he was frequently photographed with his shirt off).
As an actor, Walker had an almost identical appeal to Jon Hamm’s. I seldom look at the latter without thinking of the former, and as Hamm flounders in his post-