Lisa Janti

She appeared in Hollywood films during the 1950 and 1980s, also pursuing a parallel career of advocacy and service to disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Baháʼí Faith.[2] Although most of her later career was in the Western genre, Janti would become known as the "Starlet of many faces" as she was able to portray a diverse range of ethnic roles, including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian.[3][4][5][6] Janti was cast in films such as: Jump Into Hell (1955), Pearl of the South Pacific (1955), World Without End (1956), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958), and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958).She also worked on Project People which she co-hosted with Tom Bradley around 1963-4 (before he became mayor of Los Angeles) on KCOP-TV,[2] was among the group addressing a panel of Hopi leaders at a World Peace Day observance[16] and gave several talks as part of World Peace Day observances in Phoenix including one in Spanish.[26] And she served as chair of the Los Angeles Baháʼí Spiritual Assembly while honoring the educational center Plaza de la Raza with a replica of the Aztec calendar stone.After publishing an introductory text on the religion in 2005,[33] she served as the program director of the Desert Rose Baháʼí Institute at least circa 2008-9[34] and she continued to write.
The Public DefenderWarsawVan Nuys, CaliforniaBaháʼí FaithFiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing ArtsHigh School of Performing ArtsFort Pierce, FloridaSt. Lucie High SchoolUniversity of MiamiWilliam HolmesWesternJump Into HellPearl of the South PacificWorld Without EndTen Thousand BedroomsThe Lone Ranger and the Lost City of GoldShe Gods of Shark Reefthe film of the same nameCheyenneFireside TheaterSugarfootBat MastersonCombat!Manly Palmer HallProgressive RevelationBaháʼu'lláhTom BradleyKCOP-TVWorld Peace DayHead StartTohono O'odhampioneerPlaza de la RazaAztec calendar stoneSchool of EducationNational UniversityDizzy GillespieDavid ViscottSanta MonicaAdventure filmAllan DwanWar filmDavid ButlerScience Fiction filmEdward BerndsTomahawk TrailRomance filmRichard ThorpeLesley SelanderRoger CormanThe Music ManMusical filmMorton DaCostaMeredith WillsonProQuestThe Hollywood Reporter