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

## 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" |
| 1966 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Miss Diketon | Episodes: "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" (Parts 1 & 2) |
| 1966 | 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 |
| 1969 | The Red Skelton Show | Clara Appleby | Episode: "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost - Much Better" |
| 1969 | Honeymoon with a Stranger | Sandra Latham | Television film |
| 1970 | House on Greenapple Road | Marian Ord | Television film |
| 1970 | The Virginian | Jenny Davis | Episode: "Jenny" |
| 1970 | Bracken's World | Maggie Morgan | Episode: "The Anonymous Star" |
| 1971 | The Name of the Game | Glory Bates | Episode: "The Man Who Killed a Ghost" |
| 1971 | My Wives Jane | Jane Franklin | Television pilot |
| 1971 | The Deadly Dream | Laurel Hanley | Television film |
| 1973 | Circle of Fear | Carol | Episode: "Death's Head" |
| 1973 | Murdock's Gang | Laura Talbot | Television film |
| 1973 | 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" |
| 1982 | Matt Houston | Ramona Launders | Episode: "Who Would Kill Ramona?" |
| 1982 | 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 | |
| 1952 | Stars in the Air | Model Wife | |

## 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 | |