Cast
Janet Leigh
Acting
Cast
Janet Leigh
Known for
Acting
Born
1927-07-06
From
Merced, California, USA
Died
2004-10-03
Also known as Jeanette Helen Morrison, Ψ¬ΩΨͺ ΩΫ
Biography
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 β 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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8.4
MOVIE1960
Psycho
as Marion Crane
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6.7
MOVIE1980
The Fog
as Kathy Williams
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7.7
MOVIE1958
Touch of Evil
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas
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6.0
MOVIE1998
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
as Norma
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7.4
MOVIE1949
Little Women
as Meg
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7.5
MOVIE1962
The Manchurian Candidate
as Eugenie Rose Chaney
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6.7
MOVIE1966
Harper
as Susan Harper
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7.0
MOVIE1951
Angels in the Outfield
as Jennifer Paige
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7.5
MOVIE2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self (archive footage)
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6.5
MOVIE1983
Psycho II
as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)
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7.0
MOVIE1958
The Vikings
as Morgana
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7.0
MOVIE1952
Scaramouche
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
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6.1
MOVIE1954
Prince Valiant
as Princess Aleta
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6.6
MOVIE1955
My Sister Eileen
as Eileen Sherwood
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4.4
MOVIE1972
Night of the Lepus
as Gerry Bennett
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6.8
MOVIE1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
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4.6
MOVIE1960
People, Hopes, Medals
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1953
The Naked Spur
as Lina Patch
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5.5
MOVIE2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
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6.8
MOVIE2000
The American Nightmare
as Self
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5.8
MOVIE1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
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6.9
MOVIE1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self (uncredited)
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7.0
MOVIE1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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6.6
MOVIE1953
Houdini
as Bess Houdini
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10.0
MOVIE1998
Unmasking the Horror
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5.9
MOVIE1963
Bye Bye Birdie
as Rosie DeLeon
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MOVIE1953
Walking My Baby Back Home
as Chris Hall
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5.8
MOVIE1953
Confidentially Connie
as Connie Bedloe
MOVIE1951
Fairfax Avenue
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MOVIE1967
The Spy in the Green Hat
as Miss Diketon
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4.4
MOVIE1963
Wives and Lovers
as Bertie Austin
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6.8
MOVIE1958
The Perfect Furlough
as Lt. Vicki Loren
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MOVIE1949
Holiday Affair
as Connie Ennis
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7.5
MOVIE1979
Boardwalk
as Florence Cohen
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5.7
MOVIE1986
Psycho III
as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)
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7.0
MOVIE1971
The Deadly Dream
as Laurel Hanley
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6.3
MOVIE1960
Pepe
as Janet Leigh
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7.0
MOVIE1994
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
as Himself
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6.2
MOVIE1954
The Black Shield of Falworth
as Lady Anne of Mackworth
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6.5
MOVIE1954
Living It Up
as Wally Cook
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MOVIE1994
The Story of Lassie
as Self
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6.9
MOVIE1949
Act of Violence
as Edith Enley
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7.3
MOVIE2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
as Self (archive footage)
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5.1
MOVIE1972
One Is a Lonely Number
as Gert Meredith
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4.5
MOVIE2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive)
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4.6
MOVIE1951
Two Tickets to Broadway
as Nancy Peterson
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5.0
MOVIE1966
An American Dream
as Cherry McMahon
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MOVIE1993
The Egg
as The egg (voice) (archive footage)
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6.0
MOVIE1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
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MOVIE1999
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
as Self
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6.4
MOVIE1960
Who Was That Lady?
as Ann Wilson
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5.0
MOVIE1951
Strictly Dishonorable
as Isabelle Perry
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7.1
MOVIE1967
Grand Slam
as Mary Ann
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MOVIE1948
Hills of Home
as Margit Mitchell
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MOVIE1948
Words and Music
as Dorothy Feiner
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5.5
MOVIE1957
Jet Pilot
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
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6.7
MOVIE1949
The Red Danube
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
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6.7
MOVIE1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Lissy Anne MacBean
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5.9
MOVIE1949
The Doctor and the Girl
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
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5.9
MOVIE1969
Hello Down There
as Vivian Miller
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5.9
MOVIE1951
It's a Big Country
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon
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7.5
MOVIE1973
Murdock's Gang
as Laura Talbot
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4.0
MOVIE2005
Bad Girls from Valley High
as Mrs. Witt
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MOVIE1952
Just This Once
as Lucy Duncan
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5.5
MOVIE1951
The Re-Inforcer
as Mary Muck
MOVIE1954
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
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6.7
MOVIE1947
If Winter Comes
as Effie Bright
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7.4
MOVIE1970
House on Greenapple Road
as Marian Ord
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MOVIE2005
The Making of 'Psycho'
as Self
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MOVIE1952
Fearless Fagan
as Abby Ames
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MOVIE1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
as Ivy Conrad
MOVIE1952
An Eye for an Eye
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MOVIE1956
Safari
as Linda Latham
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MOVIE1969
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Sandra Latham
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3.4
MOVIE1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
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MOVIE1997
In My Sister's Shadow
as Kay Connor
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MOVIE2022
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
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MOVIE2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
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6.5
MOVIE2000
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
as Herself
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8.0
MOVIE1966
Kid Rodelo
as Nora
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8.0
MOVIE1969
The Monk
as Janice Barnes
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8.0
MOVIE1979
Mirror, Mirror
as Millie Gorman
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8.0
MOVIE1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
MOVIE1956
Nightmare
as Janet
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8.0
MOVIE1995
Inside the Dream Factory
as Self
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8.1
MOVIE2023
Pictures of Ghosts
as Self (archive footage)
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5.0
MOVIE1995
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
as Self
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6.0
MOVIE1996
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
as Self - Interviewee
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7.3
MOVIE1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
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5.4
MOVIE1966
Three on a Couch
as Dr Elizabeth Acord
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5.7
MOVIE1954
Rogue Cop
as Karen Stephanson
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MOVIE2002
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
as Self
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5.8
MOVIE1980
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
as Self
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6.0
MOVIE1949
That Forsyte Woman
as June Forsyte
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7.3
MOVIE1986
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
as Self
MOVIE1999
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
as Self
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8.0
MOVIE1999
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE2000
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1965
Bob Hope Christmas Show
as Self
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6.0
MOVIE1977
Telethon
as Elaine Cotten
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6.7
MOVIE1977
Murder at the World Series
as Karen Weese
MOVIE1952
Come Back Little Shiksa
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7.0
MOVIE2022
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
as Self (archive footage)
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9.0
MOVIE2000
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
as Self
MOVIE2019
Emergency: Donald Trumpβs "Touch of Evil"
as (archive footage)
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8.0
MOVIE1949