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Janet Leigh

Actress, singer, dancer Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet 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 a career spanning over five decades she appeared in a variety of films, from comedies to westerns to musicals to dramas. Of her more than 50 movies, she is best remembered for the 45 minutes that she was on the screen in the small-budget thriller Psycho (1960).

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Psycho

1960
as Marion Crane

The Deadly Dream

1971
as Laurel Hanley

Night of the Lepus

1972
as Gerry Bennett

Act of Violence

1949
as Edith Enley

Safari

1956
as Linda Latham

Angels in the Outfield

1951
as Jennifer Paige

Holiday Affair

1949
as Connie Ennis

My Sister Eileen

1955
as Eileen Sherwood

If Winter Comes

1947
as Effie Bright

That Forsyte Woman

1949
as June Forsyte

24 Hour Psycho

1993
as (archive footage)

The Perfect Furlough

1958
as Lt. Vicki Loren

Confidentially Connie

1953
as Connie Bedloe

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Herself (archive footage)

Kid Rodelo

1966
as Nora

Words and Music

1948
as Dorothy Feiner Rodgers

The Black Shield Of Falworth

1954
as Lady Anne of Mackworth

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

1947
as Lissy Anne MacBean

Hello Down There

1969
as Vivian Miller

Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense

2013
as Self (archive footage)

Touch of Evil

1958
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas

The Making of 'Psycho'

1997
as Janet Leigh

The Monk

1969
as Janice Barnes

Just This Once

1952
as Lucy Duncan

78/52

2017
as Herself

In My Sister's Shadow

1997
as Kay Connor

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951
as Nancy Peterson

Living It Up

1954
as Wally Cook

Who Was That Lady?

1960
as Ann Wilson

Pete Kelly's Blues

1955
as Ivy Conrad

The Best of Film Noir

1999
as Janet Leigh

Jet Pilot

1957
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

Wives and Lovers

1963
as Bertie Austin

The Spy in the Green Hat

1967
as Miss Diketon

Houdini

1953
as Bess Houdini

It's a Big Country

1951
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon

Bye Bye Birdie

1963
as Rosie DeLeon

the woman, a man's game

2009
as Janet Leigh

Rogue Cop

1954
as Karen Stephanson

One Is a Lonely Number

1972
as Gert Meredith

An American Dream

1966
as Cherry McMahon

Three on a Couch

1966
as Dr. Elizabeth Acord

Hills of Home

1948
as Margit Mitchell

The Naked Spur

1953
as Lina Patch

Prince Valiant

1954
as Princess Aleta

The Manchurian Candidate

1962
as Eugenie Rose Chaney

The Vikings

1958
as Morgana

Chucky Invades Psycho

2013
as Marion Crane

Honeymoon with a Stranger

1969
as Sandra Latham

Strictly Dishonorable

1951
as Isabelle Perry

Harper

1966
as Susan Harper

Boardwalk

1979
as Florence Cohen

The Red Danube

1949
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen

Pepe

1960
as Herself

The Fog

1980
as Kathy Williams

Grand Slam

1967
as Mary Ann

The Doctor and the Girl

1949
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon

Scaramouche

1952
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon

The Psycho Legacy

2010
as Herself (archive footage)

Guest Star

Episode The Red Skelton Show
Jerk Be Nimble
1966
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Concrete Overcoat Affair (1)
1966
Episode The Twilight Zone (1985)
Rendezvous in a Dark Place
1989
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Concrete Overcoat Affair (2)
1966
Episode I've Got a Secret
Janet Leigh
1954
Episode Columbo
Forgotten Lady
1975
Episode The Red Skelton Show
It is Better To Have Loved and Lost, Much Better
1969
Episode Family Law
The Quality of Mercy
2001
Episode The Tim Conway Comedy Hour
Janet Leigh, Tony Randall
1970
Episode The Colgate Comedy Hour
Martin & Lewis
1953
Episode The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Simon and Garfunkel, Janet Leigh, Jim Connell
1967
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Light Fingers
1982
Episode What's My Line?
Janet Leigh
1954
Episode Fantasy Island
Birthday Party / Ghostbreaker
1979
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Janet Leigh
1982
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Janet Leigh
1995
Episode The Dean Martin Show
Phil Silvers/Janet Leigh/Eddy Arnold
1967
Episode Touched by an Angel
Charades
1997
Episode Matt Houston
Who Would Kill Ramona?
1982
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
I Like it Here in Wilmington
1984
Episode E! True Hollywood Story
Bob Fosse
1999
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Doom with a View
1987
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Janet Leigh, Red Buttons, Fran Jeffries
1962
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Janet Leigh, Bob and Ray, Francisco Hernandez
1985
Episode I've Got a Secret
Janet Leigh
1962