Pamelyn Ferdin
Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin | |
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Born | Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin February 4, 1959 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Actress, nurse, public relations director, animal-rights activist |
Years active | 1959–2009 |
Spouse |
Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin (born February 4, 1959) is an American
She had supporting roles in The Beguiled (1971) with Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and a lead role in the exploitation film The Toolbox Murders (1978) with Cameron Mitchell. She also supplied the voice of Fern Arable in Charlotte's Web (1973). Ferdin distanced herself from acting in the late 1970s, worked as a registered nurse and shifted into animal rights activism, working as an activist and protester in animal-protection programs in New York City and Los Angeles.
Early life
Born in Los Angeles on February 4, 1959,[2] to Kenneth and Wanda (Jacewitz) Ferdin,[3] she began her career at age three, appearing in a hair color commercial.[4] She has two older sisters, Valerie and Wendy, who acted when they were young.[4] Ferdin attended Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California.[5]
In a 2016 interview with The Washington Times, she said she would have liked to have experienced "what it was like to be a normal kid in high school — without always going in and then being taken out, going back and forth."[6]
She has said that she regretted not having many aspects of a normal childhood and that her mother pushed her into acting. In 2016, she said, "My mom put me in the business. I had a very Hollywood mother. She put me in, and I just started getting role after role after role."[6]
Career
Acting and Appearances
Ferdin played the Bumsteads' daughter Cookie in the 1968–1969 CBS revival series Blondie. She was subsequently cast as Felix Unger's daughter Edna in the 1970s ABC series version of The Odd Couple[2] and Paul Lynde's daughter Sally on the short-lived The Paul Lynde Show.
She appeared on Star Trek in 1968 as one of a group of orphaned children led by an alien with sinister motives in the episode "And the Children Shall Lead"[7] and in the 1977 series Space Academy as Laura Gentry.[8]
Ferdin's distinctive voice secured her voiceover roles,
She had a brief and uncredited role in
She voiced Fern Arable, the little girl who raises Wilbur the pig, in the 1973 animated film Charlotte's Web.[14][15]
Ferdin was considered for the role of
Her last acting roles were as the voice of the character Shelley Kelley in the Kids' WB series Detention in 1999 and as Christmas the Horse in the feature film Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse in 2008.[1]
In 2020, Ferdin co-hosted two episodes of the television talk show "Ken Boxer Live" on TVSB TV, originating in Santa Barbara, California.
Activism
After leaving her job as a public relations director in the mid-1990s, Ferdin began working for the
In 2004, she accused the parents of Kelly Keen, a three-year-old child killed in a coyote attack, of murdering their daughter and using the story of an animal attack to cover up the crime. This was part of her protest against public efforts to control the coyote population near suburban homes.[19]
On June 22, 2006, Ferdin was sentenced to 90 days in jail for
In December 2006, Ferdin's group, the Animal Defense League, Los Angeles (ADLLA), announced that it had been awarded $75,000 against the city of Los Angeles for an anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation motion.[21]
Her ex-husband, Jerry Vlasak, "sits on a precarious perch within the animal rights movement," according to a profile in The Los Angeles Times in 2006. "Through his Animal Liberation Press Office, he is the spokesman for shadowy groups that sabotage labs, vandalize homes, firebomb properties and make death threats via late-night phone calls. But he works in the wide open, operating a website, issuing press releases, talking to journalists."[22]
In 2008, Ferdin was found in contempt of court, after allegedly violating an injunction. The conviction was overturned and she filed a federal lawsuit against UCLA for harassment.[23]
Personal life
She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the University of Southern California in 1978.[24]
She graduated from the Los Angeles County Medical Center School of Nursing in the spring of 1981 and got her first nursing job on the medical ward at UCLA Medical Center.[25]
She married Vlasak, a surgeon, on October 12, 1986, but divorced him in 2008.[26]
She has been a vegan since the mid-1990s. She promotes adopting rather than buying pets as well as having pets spayed or neutered.[6]
As of December 2020, she has finished her memoirs, co-authored by Richard Riis, and is seeking a publisher.[27]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1964 | What a Way to Go!
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Geraldine Crawley | |
1967 | The Reluctant Astronaut | Mary | |
1968 | The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | Laura Bower | |
1969 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Lucy van Pelt
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1970 | The Christine Jorgensen Story | Dolly | |
1971 | The Beguiled | Amy | |
1971 | The Mephisto Waltz | Abby Clarkson | |
1971 | What's the Matter with Helen? | Kiddie M.C. | |
1971 | Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Wanda June | |
1973 | Charlotte's Web | Fern Arable | |
1978 | The Toolbox Murders | Laurie Ballard | |
1982 | Heidi's Song | Klara |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1964 | The Littlest Hobo | Cindy Clark | "The Babysitter" |
1965 | The Andy Griffith Show | Corlis | "The Bazaar" |
1965 | Branded | Abigail | "A Proud Town" |
1965–66 | The John Forsythe Show | Pamela | "The Little Old Matchmaker", "Super Girl", "Anyone for a Fat Lip?" |
1966 | The Legend of Jesse James | Rosey Bryant | "A Burying for Rosey" |
1966 | And Baby Makes Three | Linda Jayne | TV film |
1966 | Family Affair | Melissa | "Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?" |
1966 | My Three Sons | Roseann | "Fly Away Home" |
1967 | Valley of Mystery | Penny | TV film |
1967 | Custer | Irene Maloney | "To the Death" |
1967 | Family Affair | Wendy | "Birds, Bees and Buffy" |
1967 | The Second Hundred Years | Nancy | "Luke's First Christmas" |
1967 | The Monkees | Girl | S1:E31, "Monkees at the Movies" |
1968 | Green Acres | Molly Mullen | "Instant Family" |
1968 | Mad Mad Scientist | Sally Springer | TV film |
1968 | Star Trek | Mary | "And the Children Shall Lead" |
1968 | Gunsmoke | Annie Jarvis | "The Money Store" |
1968 | The Flying Nun | Linda Shapiro | "The Reconversion of Sister Shapiro" |
1968–69 | Blondie | Cookie Bumstead | Main role |
1969 | Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz | Lucy van Pelt (voice) | TV documentary |
1969 | Family Affair | Jennifer | "No Uncle Is an Island" |
1969 | The Flying Nun | Violetta | "Cousins by the Dozen" |
1969 | The High Chaparral | Jennie Simmons / Charity | "No Bugles, No Drums", "For the Love of Carlos" |
1969 | It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown | Lucy van Pelt (voice) | TV short |
1969 | Daughter of the Mind | Mary Constable | TV film |
1970 | Smoke | Susie | TV film |
1970 | Mannix | Dana | "Fly, Little One" (Season 3, Episode 21) |
1971 | The Brady Bunch | Lucy Winters | "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" |
1971 | Family Affair | Shirley Dixon | "The Joiners" |
1971 | The Cat in the Hat | Sally (voice) | TV short |
1971 | Play It Again, Charlie Brown | Lucy van Pelt (voice) | TV short |
1971 | Curiosity Shop | Pam | "Special," main role in TV series |
1971 | The Odd Couple | Cindy | "Bunny Is Missing Down by the Lake" |
1971 | The Forgotten Man | Sharon Hardy | TV film |
1971 | Night Gallery | Frances Anne Emsden | "Brenda" |
1971 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Felicia | "A Portrait of Debbie" |
1971–72 | The Odd Couple | Edna Unger | "Surprise! Surprise!", "Good, Bad Boy" |
1972 | Young Dr. Kildare | Julie Loomis | "The Night of the Intern" |
1972 | The Delphi Bureau | Alice | "Pilot" |
1972 | The Roman Holidays | Precocia (voice) | TV series (13 episodes) |
1972 | Sealab 2020 | Sally Murphy (voice) | TV series |
1972 | The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie | Louisa / Lilibit (voice) | "Oliver and the Artful Dodger: Parts 1 & 2" |
1972 | Lassie: Joyous Sound | Lucy Baker | TV film |
1972–73 | The Paul Lynde Show | Sally Simms | Main role |
1972–73 | Lassie | Lucy Baker
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Main role (seasons 18–19) |
1973 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Amy | "The Tall Tree" |
1973 | Sigmund and the Sea Monsters | Peggy | "Puppy Love" |
1974 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Francie Nolan | TV film |
1974 | These Are the Days | Kathy Day (voice) | Main role |
1974 | Shazam! | Lynn Colby | "Thou Shalt Not Kill" |
1974 | Apple's Way | Sally | "The Flag" |
1975 | Miles to Go Before I Sleep | Lisa | TV film |
1976 | The Streets of San Francisco | Chris Cavanaugh | "Runaway" |
1977 | Baretta | Judy | "The Runaways" |
1977 | Space Academy | Laura Gentry | Main role |
1978 | CHiPs | Susie | "Rustling" |
1978 | Vegas | Katie Howard | "Serve, Volley and Kill" |
1978 | Project U.F.O. | Cindy Harper | "Sighting 4023: The I-Man Incident" |
1979 | 240-Robert | Nikki | "The Apology" |
1985 | It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown | Herself | TV documentary |
1999 | Detention | Shelley Kelley (voice) | Main role |
2004 | Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | Herself | "P.E.T.A." (season 2, episode 1) |
2009 | Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse | Christmas the Horse (voice) | TV film |
References
- ^ a b "Pamelyn's TV and Film Roles – Pamelyn". Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c Leszczak 2014, p. 49.
- ^ "Register". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ a b Witbeck, Charles (July 30, 1972). "Lassie's Got A New TV Pal". Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee, Florida. p. 1F – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Scroll". Herbert Hoover High School Yearbook. 1975: 73.
- ^ a b c Valcourt, Keith (December 1, 2016). "'Peanuts' Christmas special actress Pamelyn Ferdin works for animal rights". The Washington Times. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ a b "Pamelyn Ferdin". TVGuide.com. TV Guide. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
- ^ "Space Academy". www.70slivekidvid.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2008.
- ^ Inman, David (November 3, 2002). "Trudi Ames, Pamelyn Ferdin Were Teen Stars 30 Years Ago". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 143 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ LIFE. Time Inc. December 9, 1966.
- ^ "The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970) Directed by Irving Rapper". LETTERBOXD.com. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
- ^ "THE BEGUILED (1971)". AFI.com. American Film Institute. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
- ^ "Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Directed by Mark Robson". LETTERBOXD.com. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
- ^ "IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ "Pamelyn Ferdin".
- ^ Tuchman, Gary (December 23, 1995). "Why NOT to give a pet for Christmas". CNN. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
- ^ "Radical Animal Rights Group Convicted of Inciting Violence and Stalking". ADL. Archived from the original on October 24, 2008.
- Salon. Archived from the originalon April 17, 2008.
- ^ [1], "This just in: U.S. is 500 years old"], Glendale News Press by Jeff Keating, April 19, 2004.
- ^ "Former Child Actress Sentenced to Jail". ABC News. June 22, 2006. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
- ^ Milionis, Allison. "Los Angeles CityBeat – SLAPPing Back". www.lacitybeat.com. Retrieved June 15, 2008. [dead link]
- ^ Mozingo, Joe (September 5, 2006). "Thin Line on Animal Rights". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Judge: To protect and to unnerve': animal rights activists accuse UCLA of intimidation tactics". LA Activist. February 3, 2011. Archived from the original on March 26, 2011.
- ^ "El Rodeo". University of Southern California Yearbook. 73: 156.
- ^ Ferdin, Pamelyn (June 5, 2021). "Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
- ^ "Register". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ "My Autobiography Is in the Works (With Update) – Pamelyn". Retrieved August 1, 2021.
Sources
- Leszczak, Bob (2014). The Odd Couple on Stage and Screen: A History with Cast and Crew Profiles and an Episode Guide. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-476-61539-4.
External links
- Official website
- Pamelyn Ferdin at IMDb
- Pamelyn Ferdin interview at Classic Film & TV Cafe
- AnimalScam scans of court documents
- Hoover High School "Scroll" yearbook, 1974
- Pamelyn Ferdin: ‘From Child Actress to Animal Activist’, Washington Times, December 1, 2016