Pat Finn-Lee
Pat Finn-Lee
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Pat Finn-Lee Autobiography
American Stage and Film Actress, Dancer, Make Up/ Special Effects Artist, Script Supervisor, Producer, and C.C.R.N.
Pat Finn-Lee was born in Clovis, New Mexico on the Airforce Base in county Curry. Her father was a Russian Jewish Flight Officer bombardier on a B-24, killed in action in WWII.
Pat Finn-Lee's mother, Yvonne, started singing on the radio at the age of three and helped her Bowie, Wichita Falls, Texas family through the Great Depression by performing, playing, and teaching piano. Her father, Tom W. Nichols was the Poet Laureate of Bowie, Texas. Her mother, Daisy Nichols, was a nurse and muleteer in the oilfields. Pat Finn-Lee's Great-Grand Uncle was General Fighting Joe Wheeler of the Confederacy and a member of the Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Pat Finn-Lee grew up on the North side of Atlanta in Sandy Springs and studied ballet at the Atlanta Civic Ballet Company. Her family was one of the six families to found what would go on to become Holy Innocence Episcopal Church and School on the North side of Atlanta.
Pat Finn-Lee also rode horses to pick up the family mail at Burdette's Grocery and Hardware store; it was very rural area at that time. She was a Brownie and a Girl Scout. She also took piano lessons.
After moving to Florida, she became involved with the Orange Blossom Playhouse Regional Community Theater in Orlando, featuring plays which garnered rave reviews for Pat Finn-Lee who was in high school at the time.
Winter Park Highschool yearbook -Athletic Award 1, Swimming Team Letter 1; Modern Dance Club 1; Exhibition Softball Team 1; Christian Student Organization 1; Newspaper staff 1; Biology club 1; Office Assistant 1, 2; Tri-Hi-Y 2, 3; Blue Ridge Delegate 2; Future Nurses 2, 3; Home-room officer 3, 4; Student Council Representative 3; Cat Council 3; Principle: Play: "Best Foot Forward" 3; Junior Class Representative 3; National Thespian Society 3, 4, President 4; National Forensic League 4. Graduated class of 1962.
As a student at Rollins College she majored in Drama and participated in multiple roles in Annie Russell Theater; Pat Finn-Lee played the 104-year-old Grandmother in "All the Way Home", 1963. She also performed in "On the Town" and "The Philadelphia Story" that same year. She started to do crew work and internships on movie and TV productions in Florida. It was at this time that she did make-up for "Bell, Bare, and Beautiful" which is where she made the acquaintance of Leroy Griffith, Vaudeville Theater Magnate.
In 1964 Pat Finn-Lee worked on "Johnny Tiger", a production in Florida. She assisted Irene Aparicio and Guy Del Russo with hair and make-up as well as working as an extra. She was honored to get to know Marc Lawrence, Robert Taylor, and Ford Rainey on set.
In 1965 she worked on "Color Me Blood Red", a Friedman/Lewis Production where she played the Beatnik girl Sydney as well as doing Make Up and Effects. Part of the Blood Feast Trilogy, it was shot in Long Boat Key in Florida. During this time, she modeled for William Allen Orr, painter of famous racehorses, and the artist Maury Hurt at the Maitland Art Institute in Maitland, Florida. She was close friends with Paul Champion, Oz Bach, Nigel Pickering, Gamble Rodgers, and multiple other Florida musicians.
During this time, she also appeared in the "Everglades" television series, starring Cameron Mitchell. In 1966 she worked on the "Emperor's New Clothes" as a Script Coordinator with Bob Clark starring John Carradine, filmed at Vizcaya in Miami. She worked on many commercials and films, including voice-over and dubbing for foreign films and cartoons. Some productions were filmed at Luke Moberly's now defunct movie studio in Davie, Florida. Throughout this time she danced in many nightclub shows on Miami Beach, performing at venues including The Castaways, the Peppermint Lounge, Jillys, and the Newport Hotel. She was one of six dancers who danced for two seasons on the Ray Anthony Television Show which was filmed on the Jackie Gleason Soundstage in Miami Beach, Florida. She worked for UP-ITN assisting as a stringer with David Haylock doing news work in the Caribbean and South America.
During 1967 Pat Finn-Lee was married to Robert "Twig" Terwilliger, a folk guitarist from Coconut Grove who played with Gail Garnett and Gentle Rain. While living in the halcyon days of Coconut Grove she spent time at the Grove Pub, the Gaslight South, and the Flick Coffee House. She had many talented and musical friends including Tony and Carol Gulliver, George Carlin, Bobby Ingram, John Brown, Joe Bike, Michael P. Smith, Fred Neil, David Dowis, Tony Scornavacca, Vince Martin, and Felix Pappalardi. She went sailing with Odetta and Fred Neil. She worked on the Dolphin Project with Rick O'Feldman.
For a few years she split her time between Miami and New York. She made the acquaintance of Jim Moran, the advertising magnate who sold refrigerators to the Eskimos. Soon she began working as a file clerk for Albert Grossman. It was at this time that she began visiting the Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York.
Working out of the Ed Sullivan Building, out of the Maysles Brothers Office with Stanley Goldstein she was an Assistant Producer for the "Our World" television broadcast in 1967 (also known as The World Peace Broadcast); the first satellite simulcast of its kind. She worked make-up and effects for various movies including There Ought to Be a Pony with Jack Klugman. She hung out in Greenwich Village at Gerdes Folk City, The Bitter End, the Café Wha, and the Café A-Go-Go; living with various friends including Buzzy Linhart, David Bromberg, and other musicians.
In Miami during 1968 she worked on "My Third Wife, George" as a Script Coordinator. Pat Finn-Lee also worked on AMI video jukebox music videos which she wrote and directed along with Billy Walsh and Bill Finnegan. Many of these AMI videos were shot on Star Island and Miami Beach.
When Michael Lang produced "Woodstock Music and Arts Festival" in 1969, she was in New York City and assisted Stanley Goldstein (The Holy Ghost of Woodstock) in arranging for Port-a-potty's and shuttle helicopters for the event. She also helped Stanley Goldstein arrange for Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm Commune to be flown in as MC and security for the Festival.
In 1970 Pat Finn-Lee was a Production Assistant for the Maysles Brothers Film Company filming the documentary of the Rolling Stones' tour of the U.S. During 1971 she worked for Thomas Casey on a Florida cult film "Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things" doing Make Up and performing.
In the early 1970's Pat Finn-Lee toured as producer, choreographer, and performer of her own nightclub act called "The Siamese Strips". They were booked by Miami Beach agent Jerry Grant throughout the U.S. and Central America. This act also appeared in two Broadway shows in New York City produced by Leroy Griffith.
After the "Siamese Strips" Pat Finn-Lee toured with several nightclub acts including Jerry Newby and the Girls. She then toured as a solo nightclub act as "Satan's Mistress Miss Pat Lee - The Devil Made Me Do It Girl" on the Vaudeville circuit booked by the Jess Mack Agency, (Las Vegas, Nevada). While on the road, Pat Finn-Lee met her second husband, Carlos Carrasco, an accountant from Panama.
Pat Finn-Lee got together with Danny Finley, formerly the guitar player and songwriter with the band Bethlehem Asylum (from Coconut Grove) who had recently returned from doing session work in Nashville, co-writing and playing with Billy Joe Shaver, and touring with Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, as an original Jewboy. After moving to Nashville, they rented an old farmhouse which burned down. The Nashville music community led by good friends Waylon Jennings and Captain Midnight assisted with a new start. It was during this time that she gave birth to her only child, Megan Finley. Pat Finn-Lee started Joint Management, assisted by the artist Sebastian Houseman. She booked and managed the Legendary Panama Red with band Montezuma's Revenge as they toured the U.S. and Canada in their 1947 Silversides bus. They were first act to open the Lone Star Café in New York City, and toured such places as the Armadillo World Headquarters in Texas.
In Miami in 1981, Pat Finn-Lee performed in the movie "Porky's" playing Pat Lee, the Lead Dancer. She did multiple stunts and her part was expanded by Writer-Director Bob Clark. Additionally, scenes of her are used in the beginning of "Porky's II: The Next Day". She is also in much of the promotional materials for both films.
By 1986 Pat Finn-Lee had moved to New Mexico, where she worked on "Blue Da Ville", a made for TV movie. She was in "And God Created Woman" Starring Rebecca DeMornay, Directed by Roger Vadim (1988), "Young Guns" (1988) as Janey and "Late for Dinner" (1991) as Susan with Peter Berg and Marsha Gay Harden. During this time, she became a Registered Nurse, specializing in Critical Care and Emergency while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
After working as a nurse and going to UNM in Albuquerque, she moved to San Francisco, California. She continued her friendship with the Hog Farm Commune. She worked as a nurse at Camp Winnarainbow for Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney. She also babysat backstage for her friends the Grateful Dead band. After moving to Seattle for the birth of her Grandchild, the whole family moved to the Netherlands.
In Amsterdam for the Millennium, she frequented the blues pub Maloe Melo with Panama Red often performing his music. She was a special guest at the first A2A conference (Austin to Amsterdam) predating the South by Southwest festival. She returned to Nashville in time for Waylon Jennings' funeral and to be with Captain Midnight until he passed.
Living just close enough to Nashville, Panama Red played music and toured the US managed by Phil Rockin' Cabby Larson and he also toured Europe, while Peppermint Patty took care of the family. She worked on various DIY projects. She helped raise her Granddaughter Roosanneke while her daughter Megan got her college degree at MTSU. In Pat Finn-Lee's spare time, she enjoyed feeding and rescuing wild animals.
After many years of living the country life, Pat Finn-Lee moved with Panama Red to Albuquerque, buying another tour bus and outfitting it. It became necessary for Panama's health to move to sea level. Peppermint Patty drove the Bamboo Bus to Jeff Shore's Craftsman House Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida. Coming full circle where the Legendary Panama Red started his musical career as a folk singer at Tom Reese's Beaux Arts Coffee House. The Legendary Panama Red passed away in his beloved tour bus on April 29th, 2021 in the care of his loving wife and nurse Peppermint Patty, (AKA Pat Finn-Lee).
These days Pat Finn-Lee is working to edit the writings of the Legendary Panama Red into a book. She lives in a multi-generational household. She spends time supporting the musical community of Florida.
Recently surprised by her Internet following and the size of her international fan base, Pat Finn-Lee is considering reentering the Film Industry. Stay tuned for updates in the ongoing saga and the trials and tribulations of Miss Pat Finn-Lee!
American Stage and Film Actress, Dancer, Make Up/ Special Effects Artist, Script Supervisor, Producer, and C.C.R.N.
Pat Finn-Lee was born in Clovis, New Mexico on the Airforce Base in county Curry. Her father was a Russian Jewish Flight Officer bombardier on a B-24, killed in action in WWII.
Pat Finn-Lee's mother, Yvonne, started singing on the radio at the age of three and helped her Bowie, Wichita Falls, Texas family through the Great Depression by performing, playing, and teaching piano. Her father, Tom W. Nichols was the Poet Laureate of Bowie, Texas. Her mother, Daisy Nichols, was a nurse and muleteer in the oilfields. Pat Finn-Lee's Great-Grand Uncle was General Fighting Joe Wheeler of the Confederacy and a member of the Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Pat Finn-Lee grew up on the North side of Atlanta in Sandy Springs and studied ballet at the Atlanta Civic Ballet Company. Her family was one of the six families to found what would go on to become Holy Innocence Episcopal Church and School on the North side of Atlanta.
Pat Finn-Lee also rode horses to pick up the family mail at Burdette's Grocery and Hardware store; it was very rural area at that time. She was a Brownie and a Girl Scout. She also took piano lessons.
After moving to Florida, she became involved with the Orange Blossom Playhouse Regional Community Theater in Orlando, featuring plays which garnered rave reviews for Pat Finn-Lee who was in high school at the time.
Winter Park Highschool yearbook -Athletic Award 1, Swimming Team Letter 1; Modern Dance Club 1; Exhibition Softball Team 1; Christian Student Organization 1; Newspaper staff 1; Biology club 1; Office Assistant 1, 2; Tri-Hi-Y 2, 3; Blue Ridge Delegate 2; Future Nurses 2, 3; Home-room officer 3, 4; Student Council Representative 3; Cat Council 3; Principle: Play: "Best Foot Forward" 3; Junior Class Representative 3; National Thespian Society 3, 4, President 4; National Forensic League 4. Graduated class of 1962.
As a student at Rollins College she majored in Drama and participated in multiple roles in Annie Russell Theater; Pat Finn-Lee played the 104-year-old Grandmother in "All the Way Home", 1963. She also performed in "On the Town" and "The Philadelphia Story" that same year. She started to do crew work and internships on movie and TV productions in Florida. It was at this time that she did make-up for "Bell, Bare, and Beautiful" which is where she made the acquaintance of Leroy Griffith, Vaudeville Theater Magnate.
In 1964 Pat Finn-Lee worked on "Johnny Tiger", a production in Florida. She assisted Irene Aparicio and Guy Del Russo with hair and make-up as well as working as an extra. She was honored to get to know Marc Lawrence, Robert Taylor, and Ford Rainey on set.
In 1965 she worked on "Color Me Blood Red", a Friedman/Lewis Production where she played the Beatnik girl Sydney as well as doing Make Up and Effects. Part of the Blood Feast Trilogy, it was shot in Long Boat Key in Florida. During this time, she modeled for William Allen Orr, painter of famous racehorses, and the artist Maury Hurt at the Maitland Art Institute in Maitland, Florida. She was close friends with Paul Champion, Oz Bach, Nigel Pickering, Gamble Rodgers, and multiple other Florida musicians.
During this time, she also appeared in the "Everglades" television series, starring Cameron Mitchell. In 1966 she worked on the "Emperor's New Clothes" as a Script Coordinator with Bob Clark starring John Carradine, filmed at Vizcaya in Miami. She worked on many commercials and films, including voice-over and dubbing for foreign films and cartoons. Some productions were filmed at Luke Moberly's now defunct movie studio in Davie, Florida. Throughout this time she danced in many nightclub shows on Miami Beach, performing at venues including The Castaways, the Peppermint Lounge, Jillys, and the Newport Hotel. She was one of six dancers who danced for two seasons on the Ray Anthony Television Show which was filmed on the Jackie Gleason Soundstage in Miami Beach, Florida. She worked for UP-ITN assisting as a stringer with David Haylock doing news work in the Caribbean and South America.
During 1967 Pat Finn-Lee was married to Robert "Twig" Terwilliger, a folk guitarist from Coconut Grove who played with Gail Garnett and Gentle Rain. While living in the halcyon days of Coconut Grove she spent time at the Grove Pub, the Gaslight South, and the Flick Coffee House. She had many talented and musical friends including Tony and Carol Gulliver, George Carlin, Bobby Ingram, John Brown, Joe Bike, Michael P. Smith, Fred Neil, David Dowis, Tony Scornavacca, Vince Martin, and Felix Pappalardi. She went sailing with Odetta and Fred Neil. She worked on the Dolphin Project with Rick O'Feldman.
For a few years she split her time between Miami and New York. She made the acquaintance of Jim Moran, the advertising magnate who sold refrigerators to the Eskimos. Soon she began working as a file clerk for Albert Grossman. It was at this time that she began visiting the Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York.
Working out of the Ed Sullivan Building, out of the Maysles Brothers Office with Stanley Goldstein she was an Assistant Producer for the "Our World" television broadcast in 1967 (also known as The World Peace Broadcast); the first satellite simulcast of its kind. She worked make-up and effects for various movies including There Ought to Be a Pony with Jack Klugman. She hung out in Greenwich Village at Gerdes Folk City, The Bitter End, the Café Wha, and the Café A-Go-Go; living with various friends including Buzzy Linhart, David Bromberg, and other musicians.
In Miami during 1968 she worked on "My Third Wife, George" as a Script Coordinator. Pat Finn-Lee also worked on AMI video jukebox music videos which she wrote and directed along with Billy Walsh and Bill Finnegan. Many of these AMI videos were shot on Star Island and Miami Beach.
When Michael Lang produced "Woodstock Music and Arts Festival" in 1969, she was in New York City and assisted Stanley Goldstein (The Holy Ghost of Woodstock) in arranging for Port-a-potty's and shuttle helicopters for the event. She also helped Stanley Goldstein arrange for Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm Commune to be flown in as MC and security for the Festival.
In 1970 Pat Finn-Lee was a Production Assistant for the Maysles Brothers Film Company filming the documentary of the Rolling Stones' tour of the U.S. During 1971 she worked for Thomas Casey on a Florida cult film "Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things" doing Make Up and performing.
In the early 1970's Pat Finn-Lee toured as producer, choreographer, and performer of her own nightclub act called "The Siamese Strips". They were booked by Miami Beach agent Jerry Grant throughout the U.S. and Central America. This act also appeared in two Broadway shows in New York City produced by Leroy Griffith.
After the "Siamese Strips" Pat Finn-Lee toured with several nightclub acts including Jerry Newby and the Girls. She then toured as a solo nightclub act as "Satan's Mistress Miss Pat Lee - The Devil Made Me Do It Girl" on the Vaudeville circuit booked by the Jess Mack Agency, (Las Vegas, Nevada). While on the road, Pat Finn-Lee met her second husband, Carlos Carrasco, an accountant from Panama.
Pat Finn-Lee got together with Danny Finley, formerly the guitar player and songwriter with the band Bethlehem Asylum (from Coconut Grove) who had recently returned from doing session work in Nashville, co-writing and playing with Billy Joe Shaver, and touring with Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, as an original Jewboy. After moving to Nashville, they rented an old farmhouse which burned down. The Nashville music community led by good friends Waylon Jennings and Captain Midnight assisted with a new start. It was during this time that she gave birth to her only child, Megan Finley. Pat Finn-Lee started Joint Management, assisted by the artist Sebastian Houseman. She booked and managed the Legendary Panama Red with band Montezuma's Revenge as they toured the U.S. and Canada in their 1947 Silversides bus. They were first act to open the Lone Star Café in New York City, and toured such places as the Armadillo World Headquarters in Texas.
In Miami in 1981, Pat Finn-Lee performed in the movie "Porky's" playing Pat Lee, the Lead Dancer. She did multiple stunts and her part was expanded by Writer-Director Bob Clark. Additionally, scenes of her are used in the beginning of "Porky's II: The Next Day". She is also in much of the promotional materials for both films.
By 1986 Pat Finn-Lee had moved to New Mexico, where she worked on "Blue Da Ville", a made for TV movie. She was in "And God Created Woman" Starring Rebecca DeMornay, Directed by Roger Vadim (1988), "Young Guns" (1988) as Janey and "Late for Dinner" (1991) as Susan with Peter Berg and Marsha Gay Harden. During this time, she became a Registered Nurse, specializing in Critical Care and Emergency while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
After working as a nurse and going to UNM in Albuquerque, she moved to San Francisco, California. She continued her friendship with the Hog Farm Commune. She worked as a nurse at Camp Winnarainbow for Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney. She also babysat backstage for her friends the Grateful Dead band. After moving to Seattle for the birth of her Grandchild, the whole family moved to the Netherlands.
In Amsterdam for the Millennium, she frequented the blues pub Maloe Melo with Panama Red often performing his music. She was a special guest at the first A2A conference (Austin to Amsterdam) predating the South by Southwest festival. She returned to Nashville in time for Waylon Jennings' funeral and to be with Captain Midnight until he passed.
Living just close enough to Nashville, Panama Red played music and toured the US managed by Phil Rockin' Cabby Larson and he also toured Europe, while Peppermint Patty took care of the family. She worked on various DIY projects. She helped raise her Granddaughter Roosanneke while her daughter Megan got her college degree at MTSU. In Pat Finn-Lee's spare time, she enjoyed feeding and rescuing wild animals.
After many years of living the country life, Pat Finn-Lee moved with Panama Red to Albuquerque, buying another tour bus and outfitting it. It became necessary for Panama's health to move to sea level. Peppermint Patty drove the Bamboo Bus to Jeff Shore's Craftsman House Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida. Coming full circle where the Legendary Panama Red started his musical career as a folk singer at Tom Reese's Beaux Arts Coffee House. The Legendary Panama Red passed away in his beloved tour bus on April 29th, 2021 in the care of his loving wife and nurse Peppermint Patty, (AKA Pat Finn-Lee).
These days Pat Finn-Lee is working to edit the writings of the Legendary Panama Red into a book. She lives in a multi-generational household. She spends time supporting the musical community of Florida.
Recently surprised by her Internet following and the size of her international fan base, Pat Finn-Lee is considering reentering the Film Industry. Stay tuned for updates in the ongoing saga and the trials and tribulations of Miss Pat Finn-Lee!
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