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Acting

Janet Leigh

Career: Active from 1947 to 2019, with a break from 2006 to 2018, busiest in 1949 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 46
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Psycho
92/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 57 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Janet Leigh Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Dark Humor
1.8, average 2.8
Pathos
4.4, average 5.3
Social Commentary
4.2, average 4.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 4
Family-Friendly 4
Romantic Comedy 3
Period Piece 3
Character-Driven 3
Heartwarming 3
1950s Cinema 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Historical Setting 2
Crime Thriller 2
Historical Drama 2
Chivalry 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

83

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

as (archive footage)

2000s

1 title · average score 34

Bad Girls from Valley High

34

as Mrs. Witt

1990s

7 titles · average score 55

Family Law

74

TV show · as Mary Sawyer

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

55

as Norma

In My Sister's Shadow

as Kay Connor

E! True Hollywood Story

48

TV show

TV show

Touched by an Angel

44

TV show · as Vera King

The Egg

as The egg (voice) (archive footage)

1980s

7 titles · average score 67

Psycho III

56

as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Making Of Psycho III

as Marion Crane (archive footage)

The Twilight Zone

79

TV show · as Barbara LeMay

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Cornelia Montaigne Harper

Psycho II

63

as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)

Matt Houston

64

TV show · as Ramona

The Fog

66

as Kathy Williams

1970s

14 titles · average score 63

Mirror, Mirror

as Millie Gorman

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Joan Stackpole

Boardwalk

65

as Florence Cohen

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Joan Philipps / Gail

Telethon

as Elaine Cotten

Murdock's Gang

as Laura Talbot

Night of the Lepus

27

as Gerry Bennett

One Is a Lonely Number

52

as Gert Meredith

Ghost Story

75

TV show · as Carol

Columbo

83

TV show · as Grace Wheeler Willis

The Deadly Dream

67

as Laurel Hanley

House on Greenapple Road

71

as Marian Ord

1960s

17 titles · average score 65

Hello Down There

58

as Vivian Miller

Honeymoon with a Stranger

as Sandra Latham

The Monk

as Janice Barnes

Grand Slam

49

as Mary Ann

Three on a Couch

58

as Dr Elizabeth Acord

Harper

70

as Susan Harper

An American Dream

39

as Cherry McMahon

Bye Bye Birdie

75

as Rosie DeLeon

Wives and Lovers

52

as Bertie Austin

The Manchurian Candidate

87

as Eugenie Rose Chaney

Psycho

92

as Marion Crane

Who Was That Lady?

55

as Ann Wilson

1950s

26 titles · average score 65

Touch of Evil

89

as Susan 'Susie' Vargas

The Perfect Furlough

77

as Vicki Loren

Jet Pilot

59

as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

My Sister Eileen

74

as Eileen Sherwood

Living It Up

62

as Wally Cook

The Black Shield of Falworth

55

as Lady Anne of Mackworth

Prince Valiant

52

as Princess Aleta

Houdini

74

as Bess Houdini

The Naked Spur

86

as Lina Patch

Confidentially Connie

57

as Connie Bedloe

Scaramouche

75

as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon

Angels in the Outfield

73

as Jennifer Paige

1940s

10 titles · average score 63

Act of Violence

67

as Edith Enley

Holiday Affair

65

as Connie Ennis

Little Women

69

as Meg

That Forsyte Woman

63

as June Forsyte

The Doctor and the Girl

70

as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon

The Red Danube

66

as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen

Words and Music

38

as Dorothy Feiner

Hills of Home

65

as Margit Mitchell

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

62

as Lissy Anne MacBean

If Winter Comes

62

as Effie Bright