Pamelyn Ferdin
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Born | Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin February 4, 1959 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, public relations director, activist |
Years active | 1964–1982, 1999, 2009 |
Spouse(s) | Jerry Vlasak (m. 1986–2008) |
Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin (born February 4, 1959)[1] is an American former child actress and animal rights activist.
Ferdin's acting career mostly spanned the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, though she has appeared in projects sporadically in recent years. Ferdin began her career in numerous television series, and gained notoriety for her work as a voice actress supplying the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), as well as in two other Peanuts television specials.
She later 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 1980s, and shifted her career to animal rights activism, working as an activist and protester in animal protection programs in New York City and Los Angeles.
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Early life
Ferdin was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Glendale, where she attended Herbert Hoover High School, graduating in 1977.
Career
Acting
Ferdin played the Bumsteads' daughter Cookie in the 1968–1969 CBS revival series Blondie. She played Felix Unger's daughter Edna in the 1970s ABC series version of The Odd Couple and Paul Lynde's daughter Sally on the short-lived The Paul Lynde Show.
She appeared on the original 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", and in the 1977 series Space Academy as Laura Gentry.[2]
Ferdin provided the voice of Lucy van Pelt in three Peanuts cartoons: the 1969 TV special It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, a 1969 feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and the 1971 TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown. Ferdin was a frequent guest star on episodic television in the 1960s and 1970s, with appearances on Bewitched, Green Acres, The Andy Griffith Show, Branded, Daniel Boone, Custer, The Monkees, The Flying Nun, Gunsmoke, Shazam!, The High Chaparral, Mannix, The Brady Bunch, Family Affair, Love, American Style, Marcus Welby, M.D., Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Apple's Way, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, CHiPS, and 240-Robert.
She had a brief and uncredited role in The Reluctant Astronaut (1965) and was featured in the Walt Disney musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968). She appeared as Mary Constable in the supernatural thriller Daughter of the Mind and as Abby Clarkson in the horror film The Mephisto Waltz (1971) with Alan Alda. The same year, Ferdin appeared in The Christine Jorgensen Story, based on the life of the first trans woman in the United States to undergo sex reassignment surgery, and in The Beguiled alongside Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. She then appeared in the Kurt Vonnegut adaptation Happy Birthday Wanda June, and in the exploitation horror film The Toolbox Murders (1978).
She voiced Fern Arable, the little girl who works to save the life of Wilbur the pig, in the 1973 film version of Charlotte's Web. [3][4][5][citation needed]
Ferdin drew away from acting in the mid-1980s, but did voice the character of Shelley Kelley in seven episodes of the Kids' WB series Detention in 1999.
Activism
After leaving her job as a public relations director in the mid-1990s, Ferdin began working for the Center for Animal Care and Control in New York City.[6] In August 2004, Ferdin accepted the presidency of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), according to statements filed under oath in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. The incumbent, Kevin Kjonaas, resigned after being indicted on charges of conspiracy and interstate stalking.[7] When Kjonaas and six other SHAC activists were jailed in 2006, Ferdin vowed to continue the campaign. According to Salon.com she defined her role as "a squeaky-clean representative for SHAC USA," but warned that if the SHAC 7 were convicted, "[P]eople, I think, are going to get hurt. There's going to be a lot of violence."[8]
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.[9]
On June 22, 2006, Ferdin was sentenced to 90 days in jail for trespassing and "targeted demonstration" outside the home of an employee of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services. She stated that the conviction "is not going to affect my speaking out and exposing the atrocities occurring at our six city shelters."[10] She served 36 hours and was released for serving the full sentence due to prison over crowding.
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-SLAPP (Strategic lawsuit against public participation) motion.[11]
In 2008, Ferdin was convicted of contempt of court, after allegedly violating an injunction. The conviction was overturned and she is now suing UCLA for harassment in federal court.[12]
Personal life
She married to Dr. Jerry Vlasak on October 12, 1986. They divorced in 2008.[citation needed]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1964 | What a Way to Go! | Geraldine Crawley[13] | |
1965 | Never Too Late | Little girl in lobby | Uncredited |
1965 | We Learn About the Telephone | Susie Matthew | Short film |
1966 | Baby Makes Three | Linda Jayne | Television film |
1967 | The Reluctant Astronaut | Mary | Uncredited |
1968 | The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | Laura Bower | |
1968 | Mad Mad Scientist | Sally Springer | Television film |
1969 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Lucy van Pelt | Nominated— Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children |
1969 | Daughter of the Mind | Mary Constable | Television film |
1970 | The Christine Jorgensen Story | Dolly (child) | |
1970 | Smoke | Susie | Television film |
1971 | Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Wanda June | |
1971 | The Forgotten Man | Sharon Hardy | Television film |
1971 | What's the Matter with Helen? | Kiddy M.C. | |
1971 | The Mephisto Waltz | Abby Clarkson | |
1971 | The Beguiled | Amelia | |
1972 | Lassie: Joyous Sound | Lucy Baker | Television film |
1973 | Charlotte's Web | Fern Arable | Voice role |
1974 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Francie Nolan | Television film |
1978 | The Toolbox Murders | Laurie Ballard | |
1982 | Heidi's Song | Klara | Voice role |
2009 | Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse | Christmas, the Horse (voice) |
Television
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External links
- Pamelyn Ferdin's official personal website
- Pamelyn Ferdin at the Internet Movie Database
- Ferdin's animal rights work
- AnimalScam scans of court documents
- Hoover High School "Scroll" yearbook, 1974
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- 1959 births
- American child actresses
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- American voice actresses
- American activists
- Living people
- Actresses from Los Angeles, California
- Actresses from Glendale, California
- Animal rights advocates
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses