York attracted
considerable attention in the mid 1950s with his television portrayal of Mike
Fink, the flamboyant keelboat operator in two episodes of Disney's hugely
popular Davy Crockett miniseries in the episodes "Davy Crockett's Keelboat
Race" and "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates." York was cast
opposite Fess Parker in the role. The first episode featured a memorable
boasting contest and a keelboat race, with Fink's boat named The Gullywumper;
in the second, Crockett and Fink join forces to fight a band of river pirates
who blame their depredations on local Native Americans.
One of the famous lines form the movie is “Girls run and hide, brave men
shiver...I'm Mike Fink, king of the river!”
He also starred
as mountain man/fur trapper Joe Crane in two different Disney series, The Saga
of Andy Burnett, adapted from the Stewart Edward White novel The Long Rifle and
Zorro.
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