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person_profile-Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Janet Leigh

Date of Birth:

Jul 06, 1927

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Oct 03, 2004

Biography of

Janet Leigh

    Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

    Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum.

    Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).

    In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.

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Filmography of

Janet Leigh

Found 88 Movies in total

... 2021

78/52

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

Psychos

Marion Crane ( Actor )

... 2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2012

The Psycho Legacy

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2005

Bad Girls from Valley High

Mrs. Witt ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2000

The American Nightmare

Herself ( Actor )

... 2000

... 2000

... 2000

... 1999

... 1999

... 1999

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Norma Watson ( Actor )

... 1998

In My Sister's Shadow

Kay Connor ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1995

... 1995

The Story of Lassie

Self ( Actor )

... 1994

24 Hour Psycho

Marion Crane (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1987

... 1986

... 1985

Psycho II

Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

Night of 100 Stars

Self ( Actor )

... 1982

The Fog

Kathy Williams ( Actor )

... 1980

Boardwalk

Florence Cohen ( Actor )

... 1979

Mirror, Mirror

Millie Gorman ( Actor )

... 1979

The Horror Show

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1979

Telethon

Elaine Cotten ( Actor )

... 1977

Murder at the World Series

Karen Weese ( Actor )

... 1977

Murdock's Gang

Laura Talbot ( Actor )

... 1973

Night of the Lepus

Gerry Bennett ( Actor )

... 1972

One Is a Lonely Number

Gert Meredith ( Actor )

... 1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1972

The Deadly Dream

Laurel Hanley ( Actor )

... 1971

House on Greenapple Road

Marian Ord ( Actor )

... 1970

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Sandra Latham ( Actor )

... 1969

The Monk

Janice Barnes ( Actor )

... 1969

Hello Down There

Vivian Miller ( Actor )

... 1969

Grand Slam

Mary Ann ( Actor )

... 1967

The Spy in the Green Hat

Miss Diketon ( Actor )

... 1967

An American Dream

Cherry McMahon ( Actor )

... 1966

Three on a Couch

Dr Elizabeth Acord ( Actor )

... 1966

Harper

Susan Harper ( Actor )

... 1966

Kid Rodelo

Nora ( Actor )

... 1966

Wives and Lovers

Bertie Austin ( Actor )

... 1963

Bye Bye Birdie

Rosie DeLeon ( Actor )

... 1963

The Manchurian Candidate

Eugenie Rose Chaney ( Actor )

... 1962

Pepe

Janet Leigh ( Actor )

... 1960

Psycho

Marion Crane ( Actor )

... 1960

Who Was That Lady?

Ann Wilson ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

The Perfect Furlough

Lt. Vicki Loren ( Actor )

... 1958

The Vikings

Morgana ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 1958

Touch of Evil

Susan 'Susie' Vargas ( Actor )

... 1958

Jet Pilot

Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief ( Actor )

... 1957

Safari

Linda Latham ( Actor )

... 1956

My Sister Eileen

Eileen Sherwood ( Actor )

... 1955

Pete Kelly's Blues

Ivy Conrad ( Actor )

... 1955

Rogue Cop

Karen Stephanson ( Actor )

... 1954

The Black Shield of Falworth

Lady Anne of Mackworth ( Actor )

... 1954

Living It Up

Wally Cook ( Actor )

... 1954

Prince Valiant

Princess Aleta ( Actor )

... 1954

Walking My Baby Back Home

Chris Hall ( Actor )

... 1953

Houdini

Bess Houdini ( Actor )

... 1953

Confidentially Connie

Connie Bedloe ( Actor )

... 1953

The Naked Spur

Lina Patch ( Actor )

... 1953

Fearless Fagan

Abby Ames ( Actor )

... 1952

Scaramouche

Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon ( Actor )

... 1952

Just This Once

Lucy Duncan ( Actor )

... 1952

Two Tickets to Broadway

Nancy Peterson ( Actor )

... 1951

It's a Big Country

Rosa Szabo Xenophon ( Actor )

... 1951

Angels in the Outfield

Jennifer Paige ( Actor )

... 1951

Strictly Dishonorable

Isabelle Perry ( Actor )

... 1951

Holiday Affair

Connie Ennis ( Actor )

... 1949

That Forsyte Woman

June Forsyte ( Actor )

... 1949

The Red Danube

Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen ( Actor )

... 1949

The Doctor and the Girl

Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon ( Actor )

... 1949

Little Women

Meg ( Actor )

... 1949

Act of Violence

Edith Enley ( Actor )

... 1949

Words and Music

Dorothy Feiner ( Actor )

... 1948

Hills of Home

Margit Mitchell ( Actor )

... 1948

If Winter Comes

Effie Bright ( Actor )

... 1947

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Lissy Anne MacBean ( Actor )

... 1947