Janet Leigh
Age: N/A | From: Merced, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Jeanette Helen Morrison
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Merced, California, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 69
TV Involvements: 12
Most Famous Work
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
This Is Your Life
(1952) Self
Intimate Portrait
(1993) Self
Columbo
(1971) Grace Wheeler Willis
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Cornelia Montaigne Harper
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Joan Stackpole
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Self / Marion Crane
Scene by Scene
(1997) Self
Ghost Story
(1972) CarolActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Janet Leigh (Images d'archives) | |
| 2021 | Self | |
| 2019 | (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | Marion Crane | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2010 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2005 | Self | |
| Mrs. Witt | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| 2000 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Herself | ||
| 1999 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 1998 | Norma Watson | |
| 1997 | Kay Connor | |
| Self | ||
| 1996 | N/A | |
| Interviewee | ||
| 1995 | Self | |
| 1994 | Self | |
| 1993 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| The egg (voice) (archive footage) | ||
| Marion Crane (archive footage) | ||
| 1985 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1984 | Cornelia Montaigne Harper | |
| 1983 | Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 1980 | Kathy Williams | |
| Self | ||
| 1979 | Florence Cohen | |
| Millie Gorman | ||
| Joan Stackpole | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1977 | Elaine Cotten | |
| Joan Philipps / Gail | ||
| Karen Weese | ||
| 1973 | Self | |
| Laura Talbot | ||
| 1972 | Gerry Bennett | |
| Carol | ||
| Gert Meredith | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1971 | Laurel Hanley | |
| Grace Wheeler Willis | ||
| 1970 | Marian Ord | |
| 1969 | Sandra Latham | |
| Janice Barnes | ||
| Vivian Miller | ||
| 1967 | Mary Ann | |
| Self | ||
| Miss Diketon | ||
| 1966 | Cherry McMahon | |
| Dr Elizabeth Acord | ||
| Susan Harper | ||
| Nora | ||
| 1964 | Self - Host | |
| 1963 | N/A | |
| Bertie Austin | ||
| Rosie DeLeon | ||
| 1962 | Eugenie Rose Chaney | |
| Self | ||
| 1960 | Janet Leigh | |
| Marion Crane | ||
| Ann Wilson | ||
| Self | ||
| 1958 | Lt. Vicki Loren | |
| Morgana | ||
| Susan 'Susie' Vargas | ||
| 1957 | Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief | |
| 1956 | Linda Latham | |
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Self / Marion Crane | |
| Eileen Sherwood | ||
| Ivy Conrad | ||
| 1954 | Self | |
| Karen Stephanson | ||
| Lady Anne of Mackworth | ||
| Wally Cook | ||
| Princess Aleta | ||
| 1953 | Chris Hall | |
| Bess Houdini | ||
| Self | ||
| Connie Bedloe | ||
| Lina Patch | ||
| 1952 | Self | |
| Abby Ames | ||
| Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon | ||
| Lucy Duncan | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1951 | Nancy Peterson | |
| Rosa Szabo Xenophon | ||
| Jennifer Paige | ||
| N/A | ||
| Isabelle Perry | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1950 | Self | |
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| 1949 | Connie Ennis | |
| June Forsyte | ||
| Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen | ||
| Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon | ||
| Meg | ||
| Edith Enley | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1948 | Dorothy Feiner | |
| Margit Mitchell | ||
| Self | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1947 | Effie Bright | |
| Lissy Anne MacBean | ||
| N/A | ||
| Janet | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
