Janet Leigh

Acting · 3.1 popularity

Age

Movies

106

Born: July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004
From: Merced, California, USA

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.

Works

106 films

Psycho

19608.4

The Fog

19806.7

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

19986.0

The Manchurian Candidate

19627.5

Touch of Evil

19587.7

Psycho II

19836.5

Harper

19666.7

Little Women

19497.4

The Vikings

19587.0

Angels in the Outfield

19517.0

Bye Bye Birdie

19635.9

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Psycho III

19865.7

Scaramouche

19527.0

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

19876.0

Houdini

19536.6

Night of the Lepus

19724.4

The Naked Spur

19537.0

Holiday Affair

19496.9

Prince Valiant

19546.1

Jet Pilot

19575.5

Walking My Baby Back Home

19539.0

Living It Up

19546.5

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

The Black Shield of Falworth

19546.2

My Sister Eileen

19556.6

Act of Violence

19496.9

Boardwalk

19797.5

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

Fairfax Avenue

1951

Pepe

19606.3

Confidentially Connie

19535.8

Words and Music

19485.8

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Rat Pack

20229.0

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

20217.3

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

19996.9

Bad Girls from Valley High

20054.0

The Perfect Furlough

19586.8

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

It's a Big Country

19515.9

Who Was That Lady?

19606.4

People, Hopes, Medals

19604.6

The Spy in the Green Hat

19676.6

The Deadly Dream

19717.0

An American Dream

19665.0

Unmasking the Horror

199810.0

House on Greenapple Road

19707.4

Inside the Dream Factory

19958.0

A Star Is Born World Premiere

19548.0

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

19947.0

The American Nightmare

20006.8

Honeymoon with a Stranger

19697.0

Safari

19565.6

Hello Down There

19695.9

Just This Once

19524.4

Come Back Little Shiksa

1952

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

19998.5

Wives and Lovers

19634.4

The Story of Lassie

19948.0

Three on a Couch

19665.4

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

20007.0

The Red Danube

19496.7

Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood

1954

Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'

20026.3

Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom

20227.0

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

19955.0

Two Tickets to Broadway

19514.6

Pictures of Ghosts

20238.1

Grand Slam

19677.1

The Monk

19698.0

The Doctor and the Girl

19495.9

Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'

19805.8

The Egg

19937.0

Murdock's Gang

19737.5

Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool

1999

Rogue Cop

19545.7

Strictly Dishonorable

19515.0

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

19476.7

The Re-Inforcer

19515.5

That Forsyte Woman

19496.0

Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown

19966.0

In My Sister's Shadow

19976.3

The Horror Show

19793.4

Pete Kelly's Blues

19556.2

If Winter Comes

19476.7

Murder at the World Series

19776.7

The Making of 'Psycho'

20057.5

Telethon

19776.0

Bob Hope Christmas Show

19657.0

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Mirror, Mirror

19798.0

Hills of Home

19486.9

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

19867.3

An Eye for an Eye

1952

Fearless Fagan

19525.2

One Is a Lonely Number

19725.1

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

2019

Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond

20006.5

Kid Rodelo

19668.0

Nightmare

1956

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

20009.0

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

19998.0

How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border

19498.0