Director Robert Stevenson’s coming-of-age film about a boy and his beloved dog in 1860s Texas draws on a children’s novel by Fred Gipson of the same name. Jim Coates (Fess Parker) leaves Texas on an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Walt Disney Productions Old Yeller is a 1957 American drama film directed by Robert Stevenson, based on Fred ...

Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger. It received a Newbery Honor in 1957. In 1957, Walt Disney released a film adaptation starring Tommy Kirk, ...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, ...

Old Yeller is a 1957 American Western drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney. It stars Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker, with Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran and Chuck Connors.

The 1950s and 1960s introduced Americans to television and riveted audiences with tales of the frontier. One of the most noted actors of the era was Texan Fess Parker. He became one of the most ...

Old Yeller is a 1957 American drama film directed by Robert Stevenson, based on Fred Gipson’s 1956 novel of the same name. The story of Old Yeller is set in the 1860s and follows a young man named ...