Virginia Leith
Virginia Leith
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
13
Gender
Female
Birthday
1925-10-15 (99 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Acting

2019

Hideouser and Hideouser as Waitress (voice)

1980

Condominium as Carolyn Garver

1978

Battered as Not available

1977

First Love as Ann March (uncredited)

1962

The Brain That Wouldn't Die as Jan Compton

1959

One Step Beyond as Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton

1956

A Kiss Before Dying as Ellen Kingship

1956

Toward the Unknown as Connie Mitchell

1956

On the Threshold of Space as Pat Lange

1955

Violent Saturday as Linda Sherman

1955

White Feather as Ann Magruder

1954

Black Widow as Claire Amberly

1953

Fear and Desire as The Girl