Virginia Leith

Virginia Leith

Born: October 15, 1925
Died: November 4, 2019
in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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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.

Movies for Virginia Leith...

Hideouser and Hideouser
Title: Hideouser and Hideouser
Character: Waitress (voice)
Released: February 19, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Condominium
Character: Carolyn Garver
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: TV
An impending hurricane threatens to destroy the Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida.
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Battered
Title: Battered
Released: September 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Ann March (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Title: The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Character: Jan Compton
Released: February 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Toward the Unknown
Title: Toward the Unknown
Character: Connie Mitchell
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.
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A Kiss Before Dying
Title: A Kiss Before Dying
Character: Ellen Kingship
Released: April 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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On the Threshold of Space
Title: On the Threshold of Space
Character: Pat Lange
Released: March 29, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even though he's not required to be a subject in the tests. Always remaining a constant source of support, his wife, Pat, accepts his unwavering commitment to scientific progress. When Maj. Ward Thomas becomes the new head of the program, Hollenbeck must convince him of the necessity of taking the extra steps.
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Violent Saturday
Title: Violent Saturday
Character: Linda Sherman
Released: April 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
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White Feather
Title: White Feather
Character: Ann Magruder
Released: February 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.
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Black Widow
Title: Black Widow
Character: Claire Amberly
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Fear and Desire
Title: Fear and Desire
Character: The Girl
Released: March 31, 1953
Type: Movie
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.