Pamelyn Ferdin
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Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin (born February 4, 1959) is an American animal rights activist and a former child actress. Ferdin's acting career began in the 1960s and 1970s, but she appeared in roles during the 1980s and later years.
Ferdin began her career in several television series, gained notoriety for her role as a voice actress delivering Lucy Van Pelt's voice in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), as well as in two other Peanuts television specials. She appeared in The Beguiled (1971) with Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, as well as a lead role in Cameron Mitchell's exploitation film The Toolbox Murders (1978).
Fern Arable's voice was also on Charlotte's Web (1973).
She had intended to be the voice of Penny in the 1977 Disney film The Rescuers, but she was replaced by Michelle Stacy.
Ferdin left acting in the late 1980s and moved her career to animal rights activism, serving as an advocate and protester in New York City and Los Angeles.
Early life
She began her career at age three in Los Angeles, 1959, to Kenneth and Wanda (Jacewitz) Ferdin. Valerie and Wendy, her two older sisters, who behaved when they were young. Ferdin attended Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California.
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" rather than being seated and then being kicked out, going back and forth."
She has expressed regret for not having many aspects of a normal childhood and that her mother pushed her into acting. "My mother put me in the company," she said in 2016. I had a wonderful Hollywood mother. She brought me in, and I'm just getting a job after that role was completed."
Personal life
She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the University of Southern California in 1978.
She graduated from the Los Angeles County Medical Center School of Nursing in 1981 and began her first nursing career on the UCLA Medical Center's medical ward.
On October 12, 1986, she married Vlasak, a surgeon, but he divorced him in 2008.
Since the mid-1990s, she has been a vegetarian. She advocates adopting rather than buying animals, as well as having pets spayed or neutered.
She has finished her memoirs, co-authored by Richard Riis, and is looking for a publisher as of December 2020.
Career
Cookie, Bumsteads' daughter Cookie, was played by Ferdin in the CBS revival series Blondie, 1968-1969. On the short-lived The Paul Lynde Show, she was later cast as Felix Unger's daughter Edna in the ABC series version of The Odd Couple and Paul Lynde's daughter Sally.
Laura Gentry appeared on Star Trek in 1968 as one of a group of orphanaged 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.
Ferdin's distinctive voice earned her voiceover roles, and she was cast to play Lucy van Pelt in three Peanuts cartoons: 1970 TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown, and 1969 television cartoon The Beloved Charlie Brown. Sally, the little girl in Dr. Seuss's 1971 animated television special, was portrayed by her. Ferdin, a frequent guest star on episodic television in the 1960s and 1970s, with appearances on Bewitched, Green Acres, Branded, Daniel Boone, Custer, The Brady Bunch, The Second Hundred Years, Marcus Welby, Love, American Style, The Brady Bunch, The Boeing Bunch, The Walter Boones, The Golden Years, The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch, The High Chaparral, Null, Mangoe
She appeared in the Walt Disney film The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) for a brief and uncredited role, as well as the Genuine, Original Family Band (1968). In the horror film The Mephisto Waltz (1971) with Alan Alda, she appeared as Mary Constable in the supernatural television film Daughter of the Mind and as Abby Clarkson. Ferdin appeared in The Christine Jorgensen Story, based on the life of the first trans woman in the United States to have sex reassignment surgery, and in The Beguiled alongside Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. She appeared in the Kurt Vonnegut version Happy Birthday Wanda June and in the exploitation horror film The Toolbox Murders (1978).
In the 1973 animated film Charlotte's Web, Fern Arable, the little girl who raises Wilbur the pig, was voiced.
Ferdin was considered for the role of Regan MacNeil, the demon-possessed girl in the 1973 William Friedkin film The Exorcist, but casting directors decided she was too well-known and cast the less familiar actress Linda Blair.
Shelley Kelley's character in the Kids' WB series Detention in 1999 and then as Christmas the Horse in Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse in 2008.
Ferdin co-hosted two episodes of "Ken Boxer Live" television talk show "Ken Boxer Live" on TVSB TV in Santa Barbara, California, beginning in 2000.
Ferdin began working with the Center for Animal Care and Control in New York City after leaving her career as a public relations director in the mid-1990s. Ferdin accepted the presidency of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), according to statements made under oath in New Jersey's U.S. District Court. After being arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and interstate stalking, incumbent Kevin Kjonaas resigned. Ferdin promised to continue campaigning after Kjonaas and six other SHAC demonstrators were imprisoned in 2006. She characterized her role as "a squeaky-clean representative for SHAC USA," but she warned that if the SHAC seven were found guilty, "people are going to get hurt," according to salon.com. "There's going to be a lot of violence."
Kelly Keen, a three-year-old girl killed in a coyote attack in 2004, was accused of murdering their daughter and hiding the truth behind an animal attack. This was part of her resistance against government efforts to regulate the coyote population in suburban areas.
Ferdin was sentenced to 90 days in prison for trespassing and a "targeted protest" outside of a Los Angeles Department of Animal Services employee's house. The arrest "is not going to stop me speaking out and revealing the horrors that are happening at our six city shelters," she said. Due to prison overcrowding, she served 36 hours and was released before serving the full term.
Ferdin's group, the Animal Defense League Los Angeles, reported that it had been awarded $75,000 against Los Angeles' city of Los Angeles for an anti-strategic lawsuit opposing public participation.
Jerry Vlasak, her ex-husband, "sits on a precarious perch within the animal rights movement," according to a Los Angeles Times article in 2006. "He is the spokesperson for shadowy organisations that sabotage labs, vandalize homes, firebomb buildings, and pose death threats by late-night phone calls through his Animal Liberation Press Office." However, he works in the wide open, running a website, issuing press alerts, and speaking to journalists.
Ferdin was found guilty of contempt of court in 2008 after reportedly breaching an injunction. The arrest was reversed and she filed a federal lawsuit against UCLA for bullying.