List of Janet Leigh performances

Janet Leigh was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio, whose career spanned over five decades. Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh began her career appearing in several popular films for MGM which spanned a wide variety of genres, including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Spur (1953), and Living It Up (1954).

In the latter part of the 1950s, Leigh had supporting roles in Safari (1956), and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). She went on to gain lasting recognition for her portrayal of the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film Psycho (1960), which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.^[1]

In 1962, she starred in the thriller The Manchurian Candidate, before deciding to scale back her career. Leigh continued to appear in films intermittently throughout the 1960s, with roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963) and Harper (1966). She began to appear in television frequently in the 1970s, and had roles in such films as Night of the Lepus (1972) and Boardwalk (1979). In 1975, she made her Broadway debut in a production of Murder Among Friends. Leigh subsequently starred in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).

Her last film role was in the comedy Bad Girls from Valley High, filmed in 2000 and released posthumously. Leigh died in 2004 of vasculitis, aged 77.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
1947	The Romance of Rosy Ridge	Lissy Anne MacBean	Ray Rowland		^[2]
1947	If Winter Comes	Effie Bright	Victor Saville		^[3]
1948	Hills of Home	Margit Mitchell	Fred M. Wilcox	Alternative titles: Danger in the Hills and Master of Lassie	^[4]
1948	Words and Music	Dorothy Feiner Rodgers	Norman Taurog		^[5]
1949	How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border	Herself	Jerry Lewis	Short film	^[6]
	Act of Violence	Edith Enley	Fred Zinnemann		^[7]
	Little Women	Meg March	Mervyn LeRoy		^[8]
	The Red Danube	Maria Buhlen	George Sidney		^[9]
	The Doctor and the Girl	Evelyn Heldon	Curtis Bernhardt	Alternative title: Bodies and Souls	^[10]
	That Forsyte Woman	June Forsyte	Compton Bennett	Alternative title: The Forsyte Saga	^[11]
	Holiday Affair	Connie Ennis	Don Hartman		^[12]
1951	Strictly Dishonorable	Isabelle Perry	Melvin Frank Norman Panama		^[13]
	Angels in the Outfield	Jennifer Paige	Clarence Brown		^[14]
	Two Tickets to Broadway	Nancy Peterson	James V. Kern		^[15]
	It's a Big Country	Rosa Szabo Xenophon	Charles Vidor	Third segment	^[16]
1952	Just This Once	Lucy Duncan	Don Weis		^[17]
	Scaramouche	Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon	George Sidney		^[18]
	Fearless Fagan	Abby Ames	Stanley Donen		^[19]
1953	The Naked Spur	Lina Patch	Anthony Mann		^[20]
	Confidentially Connie	Connie Bedloe	Edward Buzzell		^[20]
	Houdini	Bess Houdini	George Marshall		^[21]
	Walking My Baby Back Home	Chris Hall	Lloyd Bacon		^[22]
1954	Prince Valiant	Princess Aleta	Henry Hathaway		^[23]
	Living It Up	Wally Cook	Norman Taurog		^[24]
	The Black Shield of Falworth	Lady Anne	Rudolph Maté		^[25]
	Rogue Cop	Karen Stephanson	Roy Rowland		^[26]
1955	Pete Kelly's Blues	Ivy Conrad	Jack Webb		^[27]
1955	My Sister Eileen	Eileen Sherwood	Richard Quine		^[28]
1956	Safari	Linda Latham	Terence Young		^[29]
1957	Jet Pilot	Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon Olga Orlief	Josef von Sternberg	Filmed in 1949	^[30]
1958	Touch of Evil	Susan Vargas	Orson Welles		^[31]
	The Vikings	Morgana	Richard Fleischer		^[32]
	The Perfect Furlough	Lt. Vicki Loren	Blake Edwards		^[33]
1960	Who Was That Lady?	Ann Wilson	George Sidney		^[34]
	Psycho	Marion Crane	Alfred Hitchcock		^[35]
	Pepe	Herself	George Sidney		^[36]
1962	The Manchurian Candidate	Eugenie Rose Chaney	John Frankenheimer		^[37]
1963	Bye Bye Birdie	Rosie DeLeon	George Sidney		^[38]
1963	Wives and Lovers	Bertie Austin	John Rich		^[39]
1966	Kid Rodelo	Nora	Richard Carlson		^[40]
	Harper	Susan Harper	Jack Smight	Alternative title: The Moving Target	^[41]
	Three on a Couch	Dr. Elizabeth Acord	Jerry Lewis		^[42]
	An American Dream	Cherry McMahon	Robert Gist	Alternative title: See You in Hell, Darling	^[43]
1967	The Spy in the Green Hat	Miss Diketon	Joseph Sargent	Re-edited from episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	^[44]
1967	Grand Slam	Mary Ann	Giuliano Montaldo	Alternative title: Ad ogni costo	^[45]
1969	Hello Down There	Vivian Miller	Jack Arnold Ricou Browning	Alternative title: Sub-A-Dub-Dub	^[46]
1972	One Is a Lonely Number	Gert Meredith	Mel Stuart	Alternative title: Two Is a Happy Number	^[47]
1972	Night of the Lepus	Gerry Bennett	William F. Claxton	Alternative title: Rabbits	^[47]
1979	Boardwalk	Florence Cohen	Stephen Verona		^[48]
1980	The Fog	Kathy Williams	John Carpenter		^[49]
1985	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Herself	Arnold Leibovit	Documentary film	^[50]
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Norma Watson	Steve Miner		^[49]
2005	Bad Girls from Valley High	Edwina Witt	John T. Kretchmer	Filmed in 2000; released posthumously	^[51]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954–1961	What's My Line?	Mystery Guest	4 episodes
1957	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Mother	Episode: "Carriage from Britain"
1961	I've Got a Secret	Herself	Episode dated December 11, 1961
1964	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Carol Hartley	Episode: "Murder in the First"
1965	The Bob Hope Special	Herself	Television special
1966	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Virginia Ballard	Episode: "Dear Deductible"
	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Miss Diketon	Episodes: "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" (Parts 1 & 2)
	The Red Skelton Show	Daisy June	Episode: "Jerk Be Nimble"
1967	The Jerry Lewis Show	Miss Fagelter	Episode: #1.4
1967	The Dean Martin Show	Herself	Episode: #3.4
1968	The Bob Hope Special	Herself	Television special
1968	The Danny Thomas Hour	Liza Merrick	Episode: "One for My Baby"
1969	The Monk	Janice Barnes	Television film
	The Red Skelton Show	Clara Appleby	Episode: "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost - Much Better"
	Honeymoon with a Stranger	Sandra Latham	Television film
1970	House on Greenapple Road	Marian Ord	Television film
	The Virginian	Jenny Davis	Episode: "Jenny"
	Bracken's World	Maggie Morgan	Episode: "The Anonymous Star"
1971	The Name of the Game	Glory Bates	Episode: "The Man Who Killed a Ghost"
	My Wives Jane	Jane Franklin	Television pilot
	The Deadly Dream	Laurel Hanley	Television film
1973	Circle of Fear	Carol	Episode: "Death's Head"
	Murdock's Gang	Laura Talbot	Television film
	Love Story	Leonie	Episode: "Beginner's Luck"
1975	Movin' On	Nina Smith	Episode: "Weddin' Bells"
1975	Columbo	Grace Wheeler	Episode: "Forgotten Lady"
1977	Murder at the World Series	Karen Weese	Television film
1977	Telethon	Elaine Cotten	Television film
1978	The Love Boat	Gail	Episode: "Till Death Do Us Part-Maybe/Locked Away/Chubs"
1979	Fantasy Island	Carol Gates	Episode: "Birthday Party/Ghostbreaker"
1979	Mirror, Mirror	Millie Gorman	Television film
1982	Tales of the Unexpected	Joan Stackpole	Episode: "Light Fingers"
	Matt Houston	Ramona Launders	Episode: "Who Would Kill Ramona?"
	Fantasy Island	Suzanne King	Episode: "Roller Derby Dolls/Thanks a Million"
1985	The Love Boat	Joan Philipps	Episode: "Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS"
1985	On Our Way	Kate Walsh	Television film
1986	Starman	Antonia Weyburn	Episode: "Society's Pet"
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Cornelia Montaigne Harper	Episode: "Doom with a View"
1989	The Twilight Zone	Barbara LeMay	Episode: "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
1997	Touched by an Angel	Vera King	Episode: "Charades"
1999	In My Sister's Shadow	Kay Connor	Television film
2001	Family Law	Mary Sawyer	Episode: "The Quality of Mercy"

Radio

Year	Title	Episode	Ref.
1952	Lux Radio Theatre	Strictly Dishonorable	^[52]
1952	Stars in the Air	Model Wife	^[53]

Stage

Title	Role	Opening date	Closing date	Venue	Notes	Ref.
Murder Among Friends	Angela Forrester	December 28, 1975	January 10, 1976	Biltmore Theatre	Broadway debut

References

Sources

Capua, Michaelangelo (2013). Janet Leigh: A Biography. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-47022-8.

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