 Donald Maltby Parrish Jr was born on October 27, 1944 in Washington, D.C., to Donald Maltby Parrish and Herdis Borgny Anderson.After moving to Iowa, a few months before his fourth birthday, the Parrish family moved to Dallas where he grew up.Parrish graduated in 1962 from W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas, Texas.