Janet Leigh
Actress Janet Leigh's early film career found her playing wholesome ingénues in everything from musicals and Westerns to comedies and thrillers, which made excellent use of her generous smile and unflaggingly positive nature. But in 1960, Leigh's name - and terrifying screams - became synonymous with cinematic legend as Alfred Hitchcock's doomed heroine in the infamous stabbing shower scene from "Psycho." Despite her later roles, which were eventually superseded by turns as a mother, humanitarian and best-selling author, audiences would still forever remember those fateful 45 seconds of the dying Leigh, glimpsed in silhouette, her hands tearing vainly at the shower curtain as her blood spirals down the drain. Like the film itself, Leigh became an enduring part of the fabric of movie history.
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Janet Leigh
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Making of Psycho | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In My Sister's Shadow | Kay Connor (Character) | - | 1999 |
56% |
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Norma Watson (Character) | $55.0M | 1998 |
76% |
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The Fog | Kathy Williams (Character) | $69.5K | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boardwalk | Florence Cohen (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Mirror, Mirror | Millie Gorman (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder at the World Series | Karen Weese (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Telethon | Elaine Cotten (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo: Forgotten Lady | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murdock's Gang | Laura Talbot (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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One Is a Lonely Number | Gert Meredith (Character) | - | 1972 |
0% |
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Night of the Lepus | Gerry Bennett (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Killed a Ghost | Glory Bates (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deadly Dream | Laurel Hanley (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House on Greenapple Road | Marian Ord (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Hello Down There | Vivian Miller (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon With a Stranger | Sandra Latham (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monk | Janice Barnes (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Deductible | Virginia Ballard (Character) | - | 1967 |
33% |
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Grand Slam | Mary Ann (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spy in the Green Hat | Miss Diketon (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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An American Dream | Cherry McMahon (Character) | - | 1966 |
95% |
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Harper | Susan Harper (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid Rodelo | Nora (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Three on a Couch | Dr. Elizabeth Acord (Character) | - | 1966 |
86% |
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Bye Bye Birdie | Rosie DeLeon (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wives and Lovers | Bertie Austin (Character) | - | 1963 |
97% |
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The Manchurian Candidate | Eugenie Rose Chaney (Character) | $1.9M | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
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Pepe | Self | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Who Was That Lady? | Ann Wilson (Character) | - | 1960 |
97% |
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Psycho | Marion Crane (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | People, Hopes, Medals | Self | - | 1960 |
100% |
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The Perfect Furlough | Lt. Vicki Loren (Character) | - | 1959 |
97% |
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Touch of Evil | Susan "Susie" Vargas (Character) | - | 1958 |
77% |
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The Vikings | Morgana (Character) | - | 1958 |
67% |
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Jet Pilot |
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon/ |
- | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safari | Linda Latham (Character) | - | 1956 |
60% |
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Pete Kelly's Blues | Ivy Conrad (Character) | - | 1955 |
83% |
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My Sister Eileen | Eileen Sherwood (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Living It Up | Wally Cook (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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The Black Shield of Falworth | Lady Anne (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Prince Valiant | Princess Aleta (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Rogue Cop | Karen Stephanson (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Confidentially Connie | Connie Bedloe (Character) | - | 1953 |
100% |
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The Naked Spur | Lina Patch (Character) | - | 1953 |
85% |
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Houdini | Bess Houdini (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walking My Baby Back Home | Chris Hall (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Just This Once | Lucille `'Lucy'` Duncan (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fearless Fagan | Abby Ames (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Scaramouche | Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Two Tickets to Broadway | Nancy Peterson (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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It's a Big Country | Rosa Szabo Xenophon (Character) | - | 1951 |
83% |
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Angels in the Outfield | Jennifer Paige (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Strictly Dishonorable | Isabelle Perry (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Doctor and the Girl | Evelyn "Taffy" Heldon (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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That Forsyte Woman | June Forsyte (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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The Red Danube |
Olga Alexandrova/ |
- | 1949 |
75% |
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Little Women | Meg (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Holiday Affair | Connie Ennis (Character) | - | 1949 |
94% |
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Act of Violence | Edith Enley (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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If Winter Comes | Effie Bright (Character) | - | 1948 |
17% |
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Words and Music | Dorothy Feiner Rodgers (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Hills of Home | Margit Mitchell (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Lissy Anne MacBean (Character) | - | 1947 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 85% | The Twilight Zone | Unknown (Character) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Cornelia Montaigne Harper (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Joan Stackpole (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Grace Wheeler Willis (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Movin' On | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Leonie (Character) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1971-1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Jenny Davis (Guest Star) | 1970 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1954 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1954 1960-1961 |