Virginia Leith
ActingAlso Known As
Cora Virginia Leith, ヴァージニア・リース
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.
Movies
(13 total)
Fear and Desire
as The Girl
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
as Jan Compton
Violent Saturday
as Linda Sherman
A Kiss Before Dying
as Ellen Kingship
Black Widow
as Claire Amberly
Toward the Unknown
as Connie Mitchell
White Feather
as Ann Magruder
First Love
as Ann March (uncredited)
On the Threshold of Space
as Pat Lange
Phantasmatapes
as Jan Compton (archive footage)
Hideouser and Hideouser
as Waitress (voice)
Almost Finished
as (Archival Footage)
TV Shows
(2 total)
One Step Beyond
as Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton
Condominium
as Carolyn Garver