Лесли Пэрриш: От актрисы к борцу за мир и гражданские права.

American actress

Leslie Parrish (born Marjorie Hellen; March 13, 1935) At the age of 16, Parrish earned money for her tuition by working as a maid and a waitress, and by teaching piano. At the age of 18, to earn enough money to be able to continue her education at the Conservatory, her mother persuaded her to become a model for one year. Because acting allowed her to help her family financially, she remained in Hollywood and gave up her career in music.

Parrish's interests and activities in social movements and politics grew to become her main work. She was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, a member of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, a group of notable women who fought against the war and for civil rights. In June 1967, the then 32 year old Parrish participated in a peace march in the Century City district of Los Angeles, where she and thousands of other protestors were attacked and beaten by the LAPD and the National Guard. President Lyndon Johnson was present at the Century Plaza Hotel and helicopters were flying overhead with machine guns pointed at the marchers. Parrish started to make speeches in the Los Angeles area, telling residents what the media did not report and speaking out against the war. Impressed with her speaking abilities, several professors from UCLA aligned with the anti war movement asked her to organize more like minded actors and actresses who would be willing to speak out. Two weeks later, Parrish had created "STOP!" (Speakers and Talent Organized for Peace), an organization of two dozen members ready to engage the public. Shortly thereafter, the organization grew to 125 speakers, and many more subsequently. Parrish and her friends distributed hundreds of them from their vehicles. Walter Cronkite reported that Robert F. Kennedy had one in his plane. Someone later published the bumper sticker, changing the original wording to 'WHAT IF they gave a war and no one came' but to Parrish, the important thing was spreading that message. In October 1967, a private meeting was arranged between Parrish and Kennedy by mutual friend and well known Kennedy photographer, Stanley Tretick. She begged Kennedy to run for president, telling him that huge, influential organizations opposed to the war in Vietnam were ready to support him were he to run. Kennedy refused again and again, saying he could not oppose Lyndon Johnson, a sitting president. On November 30, Eugene McCarthy, a little known senator, declared he would run against the war and challenge Johnson. Parrish was elected chair of his speaker's bureau and utilized STOP! to develop support for McCarthy. On April 4, 1968, Parrish and Leonard Nimoy (who was a STOP! member and supporter of Eugene McCarthy) flew to San Francisco to open McCarthy's new headquarters there. After they left, they learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Nimoy and Parrish cried during the speeches they gave that evening. On June 6, Kennedy was assassinated on the night he won the California and South Dakota primaries. In August, during the Chicago Democratic Convention, McCarthy delegates, including Parrish, spent little time on the convention floor, as Hubert Humphrey had already collected the most delegates through the closed caucus and convention systems in place (in those days) in 40 of the 50 states. On the night of the nomination, August 28, Parrish joined the McCarthy delegates outside the Hilton Hotel, where violent actions by police against anti war demonstrators and spectators were being covered by live television. While still in Chicago, the peace movement began working toward the 1972 election, hoping to elect George McGovern. Parrish served as a McGovern delegate at the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami, Florida. McGovern lost to Richard Nixon. During this era of political activism, Parrish worked in numerous political campaigns (presidential, gubernatorial, senatorial, congressional, mayoral) and with many different organizations, producing public events and fundraisers for them. Her last major production was the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam(MOBE), held November 16, 1969 at San Francisco's Polo Grounds.

In 1969, Parrish joined many in an effort to remove Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty from office. She supported and campaigned for a former police lieutenant named Tom Bradley, who was then the city's first black city councilman. Despite high polling numbers prior to the election, Bradley lost to Yorty, giving rise to what was later known as "The Bradley Effect." Next day, he decided to run again, and over the next four years Parrish worked with him closely to help secure his victory in the next mayoral election. In 1973, Bradley became Los Angeles's first black mayor. Parrish was one of forty activist citizens who served on Bradley's Blue Ribbon Commission to choose new Los Angeles Commissioners. Parrish and Tom Bradley remained friends for many years.

The lack of media coverage during the Century City riots in 1967 prompted Parrish to think of a new way to cover such events live to prevent suppression and/or manipulation of the news. In 1969, she began to create a television station that would devote itself to covering public events and provide in depth analysis and discussions of important developments in the world. In 1974, KVST TV (Viewer Sponsored Television, Channel 68, Los Angeles) went on the air as part of the PBS system of stations. Film notables, business people and local activists formed the board of directors and provided support for the unique station. After a difficult start, KVST was receiving positive reviews in Los Angeles and nationwide attention. However, by 1976, internal dissension on the board of directors led to the demise of the station; the signal was turned off and the licence turned in.

While living in Oregon, Parrish saw devastated forests managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and decided to protest a local timber sale. With two neighbors, she and Bach established an organization called "Threatened and Endangered: Little Applegate Valley" (TELAV). They worked for two years researching and writing a 600 page legal and scientific protest of BLM's logging of forests which would not regenerate, which was illegal. The BLM assistant state director eventually agreed, telling the Medford Mail Tribune that "The sale involves enough improprieties in BLM rules and procedures that it can’t be legally awarded. In order to comply with our own procedures we had no choice but to withdraw the sale and reject all bids." The TELAV protest document served as the basis for many future timber sale protests in the U. S. and Canada. TELAV continues to fight for the environment to this day and the Little Applegate Valley has never been logged. In 1999, Parrish created a 240 acre (97 ha) wildlife sanctuary on Orcas Island (in the San Juan Islands, Washington State) to save it from normal development techniques which include logging. She named it the "Spring Hill Wildlife Sanctuary".

Parrish married songwriter Ric Marlow in 1955; the couple divorced in 1961. In 1981, she married Richard Bach, the author of the 1970 book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, whom she met during the making of the 1973 movie of the same name. She was a major element in two of his subsequent books—The Bridge Across Forever (1984) and One (1988)—which primarily focused on their relationship and Bach's concept of soulmates. They divorced in 1999.

Airdate Series title Episode title Role 1959 Steve Canyon "Operation Big Thunder" Jo 1959 "Lovely Alibi" Jodie (uncredited) 1959 Bold Venture — unknown 1959 "Deadfall" Cleopatra 1960 Tightrope "Gangsters Daughter" Theresa 1960 Perry Mason 1960 Bat Masterson 1960 "Collision" 1960 "Champagne Lady" 1960 Bat Masterson 1960 Hawaiian Eye "Services Rendered" Marcella 1960 Michael Shayne "Death Selects the Winner" 1961 1961 Acapulco "Fisher's Daughter" unknown 1961 Surfside 6 "Circumstantial Evidence" 1961 unknown 1961 Bringing Up Buddy unknown 1961 Perry Mason 1961 Follow the Sun "Busmans Holiday" 1961 Surfside 6 Lavender 1961 Perry Mason 1962 Bachelor Father "Kelly and the Yes Man" 1962 Hawaiian Eye "Four Cornered Triangle" 1962 Ichabod and Me "Bob's Housekeeper" 1963 Alcoa Premiere "Chain Reaction" Vicki 1963 Channing 1964 "Operation Actress" 1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre 1964 Kentucky Jones 1964 "Murder by Scandal" 1965 1965 Insight "Fire Within" Joanne 1966 Batman 1966 My Three Sons "Stag at Bay" 1966 Green for Danger pilot episode unknown 1966 Morn/Maggie 1967 Tarzan "Mask of Rona" Beryl 1967 Batman 1967 Batman "Ice Spy" 1967 Star Trek "Who Mourns for Adonais?" 1967 Good Morning World "World, Buy Calimari" (pilot episode) 1967 1968 "Dry Run to Glory" 1968 1968 Mannix 1969 My Friend Tony Voices Lila 1969 Family Affair "Speak for Yourself, Mr. French" 1969 Mannix Mona 1969 Petticoat Junction 1969 To Rome with Love Elaine 1969 Love, American Style "Love and the Mountain Cabin" 1970 Mannix T. C. 1971 Love, American Style "Love and the Pulitzer Prize" 1971 Hogan's Heroes "Kommandant Gertrude" Karen 1971 Bearcats! "Blood Knot" 1971 Marcus Welby M. D. "Cross Match" 1972 Cade's County "Slay Ride" Part 1 1972 Cade's County "Slay Ride" Part 2 1972 O'Hara, U. S. Treasury "Operation: Smokescreen" 1972 Adam 12 "Gifts and Long Letters" 1974 "Shattered Image" Lydia 1974 Police Story 1974 McCloud 1977 Logan's Run Joanna 1978 Police Story "No Margin for Error"

Airdate Series title Notes 1962 Here's Hollywood Jack Linkletter (Interviewer) – S.2, Ep.52 1966 The Tonight Show Jerry Lewis (guest host)