LESLIE PARRISH BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Leslie Parrish was born on March 13th, 1935 in Melrose, Massachusetts with the birth name Marjorie Hellen. After high school she enrolled at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and excelled as a piano player hoping to pursue a career as a concert pianist, however she soon realized that she could earn a better living working as a model.
Her career in entertainment began when she moved to New York in 1953 and found work as a model and she later transitioned into acting. In 1954, she signed with 20th Century Fox at the age of nineteen.
Over the course of her career she would add over 100 credits to her resume, mostly on television with appearances on such series as, "77 Sunset Strip", "Perry Mason", "Surfside 6", "Hawaiian Eye", "The Red Skelton Hour", "Bat Masterson", "The Wild Wild West", "My Three Sons", "Mannix", "Love, American Style" and "Petticoat Junction".
In 1956 she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and some of her more well known film roles included, "Li'l Abner" (1959) co-starring Peter Palmer, Stubby Kaye, Stella Stevens, Howard St. John, Julie Newmar and Robert Strauss, "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory and John McGiver, "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964) starring alongside starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall and Mel Ferrer, "Three on a Couch" (1966) also starring Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Mary Ann Mobley, James Best and Kathleen Freeman, "The Money Jungle" (1968) starring John Ericson and Lola Albright, "The Candy Man" (1969) starring with George Sanders and Manolo Fabregas, "The Devil's 8" (1969) starring Christopher George, Fabian Forte and Ralph Meeker, "Brother, Cry For Me" (1970) co-starring Larry Pennell and Richard Davalos and "The Giant Spider Invasion" (1975) starring Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale and Alan Hale Jr.
Leslie Parrish has married twice, first to Eric Marlow in 1955 however by 1961 this marriage came to an end. She then married Richard D. Bach in 1977 but again by 1997 another marriage ended in divorce.
Her most recent appearances include the television series, "Logan's Run" and "Police Story" from 1974 through 1978. She has since retired from the industry and has not re-married, nor does she have any biological children.
Filmography
1974-1978 Police Story
1977 Logan's Run
1977 Crash!
1976 The Astral Factor
1975 The Giant Spider Invasion
1974 McCloud
1974 The Magician
1972 Adam-12
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
1972 Cade's County
1971 Marcus Welby, M.D
1971 Bearcats!
1971 Banyon
1971 Hogan's Heroes
1969-1971 Love, American Style
1971 D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1968-1970 Mannix
1970 Brother, Cry for Me
1969 To Rome with Love
1969 Petticoat Junction
1969 The Devil's 8
1969 Family Affair
1969 The Candy Man
1968 The Big Valley
1968 Iron Horse
1967 The Money Jungle
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967 Good Morning, World
1967 Star Trek
1966-1967 Batman
1967 Tarzan
1965-1966 The Wild Wild West
1966 My Three Sons
1966 Three on a Couch
1965 Insight
1964 Sex and the Single Girl
1964 The Reporter
1964 Kentucky Jones
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1964 The Lieutenant
1963 Channing
1963 For Love or Money
1963 Alcoa Premiere
1962 The Manchurian Candidate
1960-1962 Hawaiian Eye
1960-1962 The Red Skelton Hour
1962 Bachelor Father
1960-1961 Perry Mason
1961 Surfside 6
1961 Follow the Sun
1961 Portrait of a Mobster
1959-1961 77 Sunset Strip
1960 Michael Shayne
1960 Bat Masterson
1960 The Roaring 20's
1960 The Aquanauts
1960 Tightrope
1959 Li'l Abner
1959 The Rough Riders
1959 Steve Canyon
1958 Missile to the Moon
1958 Tank Battalion
1957 Man on Fire
1957 Hot Summer Night
1956 The Opposite Sex
1956 The Power and the Prize
1956 The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1955 The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955 The Virgin Queen
1955 How to Be Very, Very Popular
1955 Daddy Long Legs
1955 A Man Called Peter
