Name
Virginia Leith
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1925-10-15
Deathday
2019-11-04 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Leith (October 15, 1925 - November 4, 2019) was an American film and television actress.
Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. Her debut in 1953 was also the first film directed by Stanley Kubrick, a self-financed art house film, Fear and Desire. She signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox in 1954 and had leading roles in films such as On the Threshold of Space, Toward the Unknown, Violent Saturday and opposite Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward in the crime drama A Kiss Before Dying.
She left show business following her 1960 marriage to actor Donald Harron. After her divorce from Harron, in the 1970s Leith resumed her career and appeared in a few films and on television shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones, and Baretta. She left the screen again in the early 1980s. Her most recognizable role may have been that of a decapitated woman whose head is kept alive in The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
Known For
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After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to fin...
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Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Sat...
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Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into ...
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The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming duri...
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When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broa...
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A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters....
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Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to activ...
- 1953 Fear and Desire as The Girl
- 1962 The Brain That Wouldn't Die as Jan Compton
- 1954 Black Widow as Claire Amberly
- 1955 Violent Saturday as Linda Sherman
- 1978 Battered
- 1956 A Kiss Before Dying as Ellen Kingship
- 1956 Toward the Unknown as Connie Mitchell
- 1956 On the Threshold of Space as Pat Lange
- 1977 First Love as Ann March (uncredited)
- 1955 White Feather as Ann Magruder
- 2019 Hideouser and Hideouser as Waitress (voice) (archive footage)
- 2025 Almost Finished as (Archival Footage)
- 1959 One Step Beyond ( 1 episode ) as Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton
- 1980 Condominium ( 2 episodes ) as Carolyn Garver
