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Birthdate: July 6, 1927
Death date: October 3, 2004
Janet Leigh
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.4632
10
1950s
2.8561
21
1960s
2.8119
12
1970s
1.8605
3
1980s
2.0494
3
1990s
0.9489
2
2000s
0.2079
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.6765
2.6765
Janet Leigh Movie Rankings
1
3.8620Marion Crane on impulse steals $40,000 that has been entrusted to her by her employer. On the evening of her run-away she stops at a dark, off-road motel for the night and encounters a friendly, but deranged manager and soon meets an untimely demise. ...more about Psycho
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $9.41
(14 sellers)
2
3.6103A Mexican government investigator and his young American wife put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when they become embroiled in a frame-up planned by the town's chief investigator. ...more about Touch of Evil
DVD from $8.89
(11 sellers)
3
3.5363A Korean War veteran is sent home a hero. He later finds he was captured and brainwashed by Communists to be used as a sleeper assassin. When his trigger is used, little can stop him from completing his mission. ...more about Manchurian Candidate
DVD from $4.86
(12 sellers)
4
3.1396
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. ...more about Vikings
DVD from $4.49
(11 sellers)
5
2.9518
The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. ...more about Fog
DVD from $4.76
(13 sellers)
6
2.8644
War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. ...more about Act of Violence
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.6589
It's been twenty years since Laurie Strode escaped her brother's wrath. Now, it's time for one hell of a family reunion. ...more about Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
DVD from $6.22
(14 sellers)
8
2.6459
Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. ...more about Night of the Lepus
DVD from $8.68
(9 sellers)
9
2.6232
A bitter Howard Kemp heads westward to the Rockies from Abilene, Kansas on the trail of murderer Ben Vandergroat and the $5000 reward on Vandergroat's head, money after which Kemp lusts in order to re-purchase the ranch that his absconding fiancée had ...more about Naked Spur
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
10
2.5206
Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted. ...more about Bye Bye Birdie
DVD from $12.21
(10 sellers)
11
2.4582
A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. Chronicles his early beginnings in show business as a dime museum performer, to his ultimate (and inaccurate) death on stage in the Chinese Water Torture Cell. ...more about Houdini
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.4533
A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. ...more about Angels in the Outfield
DVD from $12.71
(10 sellers)
13
2.4369
In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. A local gangster starts to move in on them and when their drummer is killed Kelly gives in, even though this also means taking the thug's alcoholic girl as a singer. ...more about Pete Kelly's Blues
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.3812
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. ...more about Little Women
DVD from $13.30
(8 sellers)
16
2.3287
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, really a commercial spy. He unmasks her but lets her go, which gets him fired. ...more about Holiday Affair
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.2063
Andre-Louis Moreau is a nobleman's bastard in the days of the French revolution. Noel, the Marquis de Mayne, a nobleman in love with the Queen, is ordered to seek the hand of a young ingenue, Aline, in marriage. ...more about Scaramouche
DVD from $9.76
(11 sellers)
20
2.1218
Pretty Wally Cooper, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg, a young man from New Mexico who is believed to be dying as a result of radioactive poisoning. ...more about Living It Up
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.0505
Harper is one of the best detectives around. He is called by Elaine Sampson to find her missing husband. Harper reluctantly takes the case knowing that his job is putting his marriage in jeopardy. ...more about Harper
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
24
1.8173
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school text books, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries some one else. ...more about If Winter Comes
- Not Available on DVD
25
1.7246
Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster Beaumonte, who is willing to pay $15,000 if Eddie withdraws his testimony. ...more about Rogue Cop
- Not Available on DVD
26
1.5111
An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. ...more about Three on a Couch
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.3241
Danielle (Julie Benz) is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). ...more about Fate Totally Worse Than Death
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
28
1.0397
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as it is!), but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. ...more about My Sister Eileen
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
30
Technicolor & tights. In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day they journey to Macworth castle. ...more about Black Shield of Falworth
- Not Available on DVD
32
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Cahhern) comes to Main to vist his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ...more about Confidentially Connie
- Not Available on DVD
36
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. ...more about Hills of Home
- Not Available on DVD
38
The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning. ...more about It's a Big Country
- Not Available on DVD
39
Mark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. ...more about Just This Once
- Not Available on DVD
41
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. ...more about One Is a Lonely Number
- Not Available on DVD
43
To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men: three weeks in Paris with their favorite pin-up queen, Sandra Roca. ...more about Perfect Furlough
- Not Available on DVD
44
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. ...more about Red Danube
- Not Available on DVD
46
Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda. ...more about Safari
- Not Available on DVD
48
The Forsytes, Soames and Irene Forsyte is a marriage of covenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosseny. ...more about That Forsyte Woman
- Not Available on DVD
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