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'Davy Crockett' star Fess Parker dies

Was named a Disney legend in 1991

Fess Parker, who starred as the coonskin-capped Davy Crockett in the 1950s, becoming a lifelong favorite of the baby boomers, died Thursday of natural causes at his home in California's Santa Ynez Valley. He was 85.