Highest Rated: 67% Puppet on a Chain (1972)
Lowest Rated: 33% Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Birthday: May 22, 1942
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A slim brunette leading lady of film and TV, Barbara Parkins made her feature debut in the crime drama "20,000 Eyes" (1961) but really came to public attention as the oft-married Betty Anderson on the popular primetime soap opera "Peyton Place" (ABC, 1964-69). In her second feature, the high profile but trashy "Valley of the Dolls" (1967), she was cast as an aspiring actress with roots in New England, a role that was not much of a stretch from her TV persona. In its day, the film was widely dismissed by critics, but by the 1990s it enjoyed popularity as a camp classic. While never a major screen presence, Parkins acquitted herself in a handful of roles in horror films, including "Asylum" (1972) and particularly in the Canadian-made "Christina" (1974), which utilized her voluptuous beauty to good effect. She made her last feature appearance to date as a fashion designer in the misguided Australian romantic comedy "Breakfast in Paris" (1981).
Highest rated movies
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Barbara Parkins
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story | Annie Laurie Williams (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | | Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun | Ellen Cartwright (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peyton Place: The Next Generation | Betty Harrington Cord (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | | The Calendar Girl Murders | Cleo Banks (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Catch a King | Duchess of Windsor (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | | Katy Caterpillar | Nature (Voice) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Uncommon Valor | Dr. Margaret Houghton (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakfast in Paris | Jackie Wyatt (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | | Bear Island | Judith Rubin (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Critical List | Angela Adams (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women | Anna Held (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy | Vanessa Hunt (Character) | - | 1977 |
50% | | Shout at the Devil | Rosa O'Flynn / | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law of the Land | Jane Adams (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christina | Christina/ | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snatched | Barbara Maxvill (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | | The Deadly Trap | Cynthia (Character) | - | 1972 |
67% | | Puppet on a Chain | Maggie (Character) | - | 1972 |
67% | | Asylum | Bonnie (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Play | Unknown (Character) | - | 1972 |
63% | | The Mephisto Waltz | Roxanne Delancey (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Taste of Evil | Susan Wilcox (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | | The Kremlin Letter | B.A. (Character) | - | 1970 |
33% | | Valley of the Dolls | Anne Welles (Character) | - | 1967 |
TV
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82% | 92% | Picket Fences | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Kay Weber (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Testimony of Two Men | Unknown (Character) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gibbsville | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peyton Place | Betty Anderson/ | 1964-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Marilee Bishop (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Paula Durham (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tall Man | Sue Wiley (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leave It to Beaver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |