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Virginia Leith

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94 Years Old

​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.

Born

Cleveland, Ohio, USA on 15th October 1925

Died

4th November 2019

All Credits

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One Step Beyond
Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton
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Fear and Desire
The Girl
A Kiss Before Dying Image
A Kiss Before Dying
Ellen Kingship
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Condominium
Carolyn Garver
First Love Image
First Love
Ann March (uncredited)
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Black Widow
Claire Amberly
The Brain That Wouldn't Die Image
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Jan Compton
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Violent Saturday
Linda Sherman
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White Feather
Ann Magruder
Toward the Unknown Image
Toward the Unknown
Connie Mitchell
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Battered
On the Threshold of Space Image
On the Threshold of Space
Pat Lange
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Hideouser and Hideouser
Waitress (voice)