Leslie ParrishFilmography

Invisible Strangler

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Elke Sommer, Sue Lyon, Leslie Parrish, Percy Rodrigues

Synopsis: Invisible Strangler tells the story of a boy who strangles his mother and while in a mental institution finds books which give him the key to making himself invisible. He then escapes from the hospital and goes on a murder spree, strangling his mother's friends in a series of unintentionally Read More

The Giant Spider Invasion

Actors: Robert Easton

Synopsis: Bill Rebane's backyard wonder is a hilariously hokey throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, while taking its only pseudo-scientific conceit from the mid-70s trend of popular "black hole" theories, combining these two elements to create pure bad-movie heaven. A tiny, decrepit town in Read More

Adam-12: Gifts and Long Letters

Synopsis: Mark Miller plays a paranoid ex-convict named Tom and Leslie Parrish appears as a waitress named Sharon in a sad story of a star-crossed romance. Sharon fond of Tom, but he is more preoccupied with the fear that he is being stalked and pursued . When Sharon attempts suicide, Officers Jim Reed Read More

Banyon

Actors: Robert Forster, Darren McGavin, José Ferrer, Anjanette Comer, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: Banyon is an A-number-one detective yarn set (very accurately) in the 1930s. Robert Forster, emulating John Garfield in virtually every scene, plays private eye Miles C. Banyon. Right now he's in dutch because a beautiful young woman has been found murdered--and Banyon's gun was the murder weapon. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Kommandant Gertrude

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Kathleen Freeman returns as General Burkhalter's Wagnerian sister Gertrude. By virtue of her engagement to Major Wolfgang Karp (Lee Bergere), Gertrude has been placed in command of Stalag 13. This development puts a crimp in Hogan's plan to smuggle an American general into London -- but only Read More

Conspiracy to Kill

Synopsis: Conspiracy to Kill was one of two pilot films for the Jack Webb-produced TV series The D.A. Robert Conrad stars as LA deputy district attorney Paul Ryan. This time around, Ryan reopens a case that he's already won. New evidence indicates that a supposedly victimized drugstore owner (William Read More

Brother, Cry for Me

Petticoat Junction: The Tenant

Synopsis: Leslie Parrish, best remembered for her film work in Li'l Abner and The Manchurian Candidate, guests in this episode as beautiful and worldly novelist Jacqueline Moran. Arriving at the Shady Rest, "Jackie" begins acting like one of her fictional characters by setting her cap for a married Read More

The Candy Man

Synopsis: "Everybody needs candy of one kind or another," George Sanders says in The Candy Man. Sanders, playing a character named Sidney Carter, says this soon after giving some peppermint sticks to a pair of small children. But are they just peppermint sticks? As a down-and-out drug dealer, Carter is Read More

Family Affair: Speak for Yourself, Mr. French

Synopsis: Everyone in the Davis household (and the general vicinity) is astonished when an attractive young secretary named Emily (Leslie Parrish) sets her cap for the dignified--and much older--Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot). At first mildly annoyed by Emily's attentions, Mr. French soon becomes interested Read More

The Devil's 8

Actors: Christopher George, Fabian, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ross Hagen

Synopsis: Faulkner (Christopher George) is an ATF agent who shut down the moonshine operation of Burl (Ralph Meeker) in his Southern state hideaway. Along with agent Martin (Ron Rifkin), the duo uses eight escaped prisoners for the job, promising their freedom should the mission succeed. Fabian stars as one Read More

The Money Jungle

Actors: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Leslie Parrish, Nehemiah Persoff, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling rights. Detective Blake Heller (John Ericson) is the hard drinking sleuth hired by the oil companies to try and keep the proceedings above board. He contends with a group that Read More

Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonis?

Synopsis: Greek mythology collides with the future in Who Mourns for Adonis?, an episode from the second season of the popular science fiction series. Traveling through distant space, the Enterprise is trapped by a mysterious force field that appears in the shape of a gigantic human hand. Seeking an Read More

Three on a Couch

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Mary Ann Mobley, Gila Golan, Leslie Parrish

Synopsis: Artist Christopher Pride (Jerry Lewis) has just been commissioned to work in Paris. Wanting to kill two birds with one stone, he plans to bring his soon-to-be bride along to celebrate their honeymoon. Unfortunately, his girlfriend (Janet Leigh) is a psychiatrist trying to contend with a trio of Read More

Sex and the Single Girl

Actors: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: Helen Gurley Brown's self-help best-seller was the nominal source for this Hollywood sex romp, directed by Richard Quine, co-scripted by Joseph Heller and David R. Schwartz, and starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Tony Curtis plays Bob Weston, a writer for the scandal sheet "Dirt," who is Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie Parrish Read More

The Manchurian Candidate

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva

Synopsis: An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Impatient Partner

Synopsis: Paint manufactuer Amory Fallon (played by Wesley Lau, who later joined the Perry Mason cast as Lt. Anderson) suspects his partner Ned Thompson of embezzling funds, setting the fire which wrecked their plant, and worst of all, cheating with Fallon's wife Vivian (Leslie Parrish). Intending to Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Left-Handed Liar

Synopsis: Now working as a health club instructor, former college athletic star Ward Nichols (Ed Nelson) hopes to marry Casey Daniels (Maggie Pierce), the niece of his boss Bernard Daniels (Les Tremayne). Unfortunately, Nichols' estranged wife Veronica (Leslie Parrish) refuses to let him go, and claims to Read More

Portrait of a Mobster

Actors: Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Peter Breck, Norman Alden, Robert McQueeney

Synopsis: Prolific director Joseph Pevney is better known for his next venture -- the Star Trek television series -- than this conventional docudrama on mobster "Dutch" Schultz (played by Vic Morrow). Rather than take the focus of 1997's Hoodlum, in which Schultz's attempt to move into Harlem is thwarted Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Madcap Modiste

Synopsis: High-fashion diva Flavia Halliday (Marie Windsor) humiliates her husband Charles (John Conte) on network television by flatly refuting Charles' announcement that he has sold their firm's name to another company. For Charles, this is the last straw: He demands a divorce, but Flavia merely laughs at Read More

Li'l Abner

Actors: Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stubby Kaye, Howard St. John, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: 1959's Li'l Abner was adapted from the hit 1956 Broadway musical--which, in turn, was inspired by the satirical comic strip by Al Capp. Peter Palmer recreates his Broadway role as Li'l Abner Yokum, the handsome, muscle-bound, muscle-brained leading hillbilly of Dogpatch, USA. The citizens of Read More

Missile to the Moon

Synopsis: Green cheese? Men in the Moon? Nah, everyone knows that the moon is really populated by beautiful women wearing silk underwear and spiked heels. They are ruled by an evil temptress and share the moon with giant rock men and an enormous spider. Honest. Just watch this campy remake of Cat Women of the Moon Read More

Tank Battalion

Actors: Don Kelly, Marjorie Hellen, Edward G. Robinson, Jr., Frank Gorshin, Regina Gleason

Synopsis: This war drama is set during the Korean War and follows the exploits of four men and their tank as they fight their battles behind enemy lines. During their many skirmishes, they discuss their past romantic exploits. One of them is currently involved with an Army nurse. The four find themselves in Read More

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

Actors: Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory Whitcomb (Tom Ewell) served with distinction in the Army during WWII, but he now makes his living as a television writer. Gregory's wife Katy (Sheree North), several years Read More

How to Be Very, Very, Popular

Actors: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer Read More

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Actors: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern in Ragtime (1981), is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for the film, it isn't Read More

The Virgin Queen

Actors: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Having previously portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I in 1939's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Bette Davis reprises the role in the Technicolor-and-Cinescope costumer The Virgin Queen. Harry Brown and Mindret Lord's screenplay proposes that Elizabeth's relationship with adventurer Sir Read More