Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison) 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.
Known for
Columbo
Grace Wheeler Willis
Murder, She Wrote
Cornelia Montaigne Harper
The Love Boat
Joan Philipps / Gail
The Twilight Zone
Tales of the Unexpected
Joan Stackpole
Honest Trailers
Marion Crane (archive footage)
Touched by an Angel
Vera King
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Ghost Story
Carol
Family Law
Mary Sawyer
Matt Houston
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait
Self
Psycho
Marion Crane
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Miss Diketon
The Oscars
Self
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist
This Is Your Life
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
The Fog
Kathy Williams
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Norma Watson
Touch of Evil
Susan 'Susie' Vargas
The Vikings
Morgana
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Host
Psycho II
Marion Crane (archival footage) (uncredited)
Scaramouche
Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
Scene by Scene
Self
The Manchurian Candidate
Eugenie Rose Chaney
Little Women
Meg
Bad Girls from Valley High
Mrs. Witt
Harper
Susan Harper
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Sandra Latham
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
E! True Hollywood Story
Bye Bye Birdie
Rosie DeLeon
Night of the Lepus
Gerry Bennett
The Naked Spur
Lina Patch
Jet Pilot
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Houdini
Bess Houdini
Prince Valiant
Princess Aleta
The Black Shield of Falworth
Lady Anne of Mackworth
Words and Music
Dorothy Feiner
Pepe
Janet Leigh
My Sister Eileen
Eileen Sherwood
Holiday Affair
Connie Ennis
Angels in the Outfield
Jennifer Paige
Act of Violence
Edith Enley
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
The Rosemary Clooney Show
Self
Three on a Couch
Dr Elizabeth Acord
The Perfect Furlough
Lt. Vicki Loren
Rogue Cop
Karen Stephanson
Grand Slam
Mary Ann
Living It Up
Wally Cook
The Spy in the Green Hat
Miss Diketon
If Winter Comes
Effie Bright
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Who Was That Lady?
Ann Wilson
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
The American Nightmare
Self
Walking My Baby Back Home
Chris Hall
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self (uncredited)
Hills of Home
Margit Mitchell
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Kid Rodelo
Nora
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Confidentially Connie
Connie Bedloe
That Forsyte Woman
June Forsyte
It's a Big Country
Rosa Szabo Xenophon
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Self
Hello Down There
Vivian Miller
In My Sister's Shadow
Kay Connor
People, Hopes, Medals
Self
The Doctor and the Girl
Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Safari
Linda Latham
Two Tickets to Broadway
Nancy Peterson
The Red Danube
Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Monk
Janice Barnes
24 Hour Psycho
Marion Crane (archive footage)
Pete Kelly's Blues
Ivy Conrad
An American Dream
Cherry McMahon
Wives and Lovers
Bertie Austin
The Psycho Legacy
Self (archive footage)
House on Greenapple Road
Marian Ord
Telethon
Elaine Cotten
Mirror, Mirror
Millie Gorman
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Self
Just This Once
Lucy Duncan
One Is a Lonely Number
Gert Meredith
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
The Story of Lassie
Self
Psycho Tom
Marion Crane
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Lissy Anne MacBean
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Self
Strictly Dishonorable
Isabelle Perry
The Making of 'Psycho'
Self
Fairfax Avenue
Boardwalk
Florence Cohen
Fearless Fagan
Abby Ames
The Deadly Dream
Laurel Hanley
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Self
Nightmare
Janet
Murder at the World Series
Karen Weese
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
Bob Hope Christmas Show
Self
Inside the Dream Factory
Self
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)
An Eye for an Eye
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
Interviewee
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
Herself
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Himself
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
Self
Murdock's Gang
Laura Talbot
The Egg
The egg (voice) (archive footage)
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
Come Back Little Shiksa
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Golden Globe Awards
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self