Janet Leigh

Career timeline

1. 1927 · Born

   Born in Merced, California, USA

2. 1947 · Screen debut

   The Romance of Rosy Ridge (Movie)

3. 1960 · Breakthrough

   Psycho (Movie)

4. 2004 · Died

   October 3, 2004

5. 2019 · Latest release

   Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (Movie)

Career in numbers

10 1940s

26 1950s

15 1960s

13 1970s

6 1980s

6 1990s

1 2000s

2 2010s

• Drama38
• Comedy25
• Thriller17
• Romance17
• Crime11
• Mystery11

Highest-rated title Psycho 1960 8.4 Most popular title Columbo 1971 8.1

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Janet Leigh in our catalogue.

Norman Lloyd

2 titles together

1. 2019 Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" as (archive footage) Movie
2. 2018 Hollywood: No Sex, Please! Movie
3. 2005 Bad Girls from Valley High as Mrs. Witt 4.0 Movie
4. 1999 Family Law as Mary Sawyer TV
5. 1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Norma 6.0 Movie
6. 1997 In My Sister's Shadow as Kay Connor Movie
7. 1996 E! True Hollywood Story 8.1 TV
8. 1995 Secret Lives TV
9. 1994 Touched by an Angel as Vera King 7.2 TV
10. 1986 Psycho III as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited) 5.6 Movie
11. 1985 The Twilight Zone as Barbara LeMay 7.7 TV
12. 1984 Murder, She Wrote as Cornelia Montaigne Harper 7.5 TV
13. 1983 Psycho II as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited) 6.5 Movie
14. 1982 Matt Houston as Ramona 6.3 TV
15. 1980 The Fog as Kathy Williams 6.8 Movie
16. 1979 Boardwalk as Florence Cohen Movie
17. 1979 Mirror, Mirror as Millie Gorman Movie
18. 1979 Tales of the Unexpected as Joan Stackpole 6.8 TV
19. 1979 The Horror Show as (archive footage) Movie
20. 1977 Telethon as Elaine Cotten Movie
21. 1977 The Love Boat as Joan Philipps / Gail 6.3 TV
22. 1977 Murder at the World Series as Karen Weese Movie
23. 1972 Night of the Lepus as Gerry Bennett 4.4 Movie
24. 1972 Ghost Story as Carol TV
25. 1972 One Is a Lonely Number as Gert Meredith Movie
26. 1971 The Deadly Dream as Laurel Hanley Movie
27. 1971 Columbo as Grace Wheeler Willis 8.1 TV
28. 1970 House on Greenapple Road as Marian Ord Movie
29. 1969 Honeymoon with a Stranger as Sandra Latham Movie
30. 1969 The Monk as Janice Barnes Movie
31. 1969 Hello Down There as Vivian Miller Movie
32. 1967 Grand Slam as Mary Ann 7.1 Movie
33. 1967 The Spy in the Green Hat as Miss Diketon Movie
34. 1966 An American Dream as Cherry McMahon Movie
35. 1966 Three on a Couch as Dr Elizabeth Acord 5.5 Movie
36. 1966 Harper as Susan Harper 6.7 Movie
37. 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Miss Diketon 7.2 TV
38. 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Virginia Ballard TV
39. 1963 Bye Bye Birdie as Rosie DeLeon 5.9 Movie
40. 1962 The Manchurian Candidate as Eugenie Rose Chaney 7.5 Movie
41. 1960 Pepe as Janet Leigh 6.4 Movie
42. 1960 Psycho as Marion Crane 8.4 Movie
43. 1960 Who Was That Lady? as Ann Wilson 6.4 Movie
44. 1958 The Perfect Furlough as Vicki Loren 6.7 Movie
45. 1958 The Vikings as Morgana 7.0 Movie
46. 1958 Touch of Evil as Susan Vargas 7.7 Movie
47. 1957 Jet Pilot as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief 5.5 Movie
48. 1956 Safari as Linda Latham Movie
49. 1955 My Sister Eileen as Eileen Sherwood 6.6 Movie
50. 1955 Pete Kelly's Blues as Ivy Conrad 6.3 Movie
51. 1954 Rogue Cop as Karen Stephanson Movie
52. 1954 The Black Shield of Falworth as Lady Anne of Mackworth 6.4 Movie
53. 1954 Living It Up as Wally Cook 6.5 Movie
54. 1954 Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood Movie
55. 1954 Prince Valiant as Princess Aleta 6.1 Movie
56. 1953 Walking My Baby Back Home as Chris Hall Movie
57. 1953 Houdini as Bess Houdini 6.6 Movie
58. 1953 Confidentially Connie as Connie Bedloe Movie
59. 1953 The Naked Spur as Lina Patch 7.0 Movie
60. 1952 Scaramouche as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon 7.0 Movie
61. 1952 Just This Once as Lucy Duncan Movie
62. 1952 Come Back Little Shiksa Movie
63. 1951 It's a Big Country as Rosa Szabo Xenophon Movie
64. 1951 Two Tickets to Broadway as Nancy Peterson Movie
65. 1951 Angels in the Outfield as Jennifer Paige 7.0 Movie
66. 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV
67. 1951 Strictly Dishonorable as Isabelle Perry Movie
68. 1949 Holiday Affair as Connie Ennis 6.9 Movie
69. 1949 That Forsyte Woman as June Forsyte Movie
70. 1949 The Red Danube as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen Movie
71. 1949 The Doctor and the Girl as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon Movie
72. 1949 Little Women as Meg 7.4 Movie
73. 1949 Act of Violence as Edith Enley 6.9 Movie
74. 1948 Words and Music as Dorothy Feiner 5.9 Movie
75. 1948 Hills of Home as Margit Mitchell Movie
76. 1947 If Winter Comes as Effie Bright Movie
77. 1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Lissy Anne MacBean Movie

1. 1959 Startime TV
2. 1958 The Vikings 7.0 Movie
3. 1957 Sweet Smell of Success 7.6 Movie

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