Virginia Leith

Virginia Leith

Deceased · Born: Oct 15, 1925 · Died: Nov 4, 2019

Personal Details

Born Oct 15, 1925 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.

Career

1980
Condominium
Condominium as Carolyn Garver
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1962
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Brain That Wouldn't Die as Jan Compton
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1959
One Step Beyond
One Step Beyond as Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton
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1956
A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying as Ellen Kingship
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Toward the Unknown
Toward the Unknown as Connie Mitchell
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On the Threshold of Space
On the Threshold of Space as Pat Lange
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1955
White Feather
White Feather as Ann Magruder
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Violent Saturday
Violent Saturday as Linda Sherman
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1954
Black Widow
Black Widow as Claire Amberly
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1953
Fear and Desire
Fear and Desire as The Girl
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