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Virginia Leith

Virginia Leith

Born: 1925-10-15 • 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.

Filmography
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Phantasmatapes
2025 • Jan Compton (archive footage)
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Almost Finished
2025 • (Archival Footage)
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Hideouser and Hideouser
2019 • Waitress (voice)
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Battered
1978
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First Love
1977 • Ann March (uncredited)
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die
1962 • Jan Compton
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Toward the Unknown
1956 • Connie Mitchell
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A Kiss Before Dying
1956 • Ellen Kingship
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On the Threshold of Space
1956 • Pat Lange
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Violent Saturday
1955 • Linda Sherman
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White Feather
1955 • Ann Magruder
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Black Widow
1954 • Claire Amberly
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Fear and Desire
1953 • The Girl