Janet Munro (28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972) was a British actress.
Born as
Janet Neilson Horsburgh, the daughter of
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
comedian
Alex MunroAlex Munro was a Scottish actor and comedian.-Career:Born as Alexander Horsburgh in Shettleston, Glasgow, he joined his brother Archie and sister June in an acrobatic act called The Star Trio...
(real name Alexander Horsburgh), she was born as in
BlackpoolBlackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. Situated along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the fourth-largest settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington...
. She used her father's stage name professionally.
Janet Munro starred in three Disney films,
Darby O'Gill and the Little PeopleDarby O'Gill and the Little People is a Walt Disney Pictures feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by Lawrence...
(1959),
Third Man on the MountainThird Man on the Mountain is a 1959 American Walt Disney movie set during the golden age of alpinism about a young Swiss man who conquers the mountain that killed his father. It is based on the novel Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman, and was televised under this name...
(1959) and
Swiss Family RobinsonSwiss Family Robinson is a Buena Vista Distribution feature film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, and Sessue Hayakawa in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home. The screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley was loosely based upon the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson by Johann...
(1960). Other film credits include science fiction films such as
The Crawling Eye (1958) (released as
The Trollenberg TerrorThe Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV television program and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye , Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye...
in the UK) and
The Day the Earth Caught FireThe Day the Earth Caught Fire is an apocalyptic British science fiction film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961....
(1961).
In 1960, Munro won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress, and in 1962 was nominated for
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading RoleBest Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...
for her performance in
Life for RuthLife for Ruth is a 1962 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, and Frank Finlay....
(released as
Walk in the Shadow and
Condemned to Life in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
).
Munro was married to Tony Wright from 1956 until 1959.
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Janet Munro (28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972) was a British actress.
Born as
Janet Neilson Horsburgh, the daughter of
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
comedian
Alex MunroAlex Munro was a Scottish actor and comedian.-Career:Born as Alexander Horsburgh in Shettleston, Glasgow, he joined his brother Archie and sister June in an acrobatic act called The Star Trio...
(real name Alexander Horsburgh), she was born as in
BlackpoolBlackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. Situated along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the fourth-largest settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington...
. She used her father's stage name professionally.
Janet Munro starred in three Disney films,
Darby O'Gill and the Little PeopleDarby O'Gill and the Little People is a Walt Disney Pictures feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by Lawrence...
(1959),
Third Man on the MountainThird Man on the Mountain is a 1959 American Walt Disney movie set during the golden age of alpinism about a young Swiss man who conquers the mountain that killed his father. It is based on the novel Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman, and was televised under this name...
(1959) and
Swiss Family RobinsonSwiss Family Robinson is a Buena Vista Distribution feature film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, and Sessue Hayakawa in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home. The screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley was loosely based upon the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson by Johann...
(1960). Other film credits include science fiction films such as
The Crawling Eye (1958) (released as
The Trollenberg TerrorThe Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV television program and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye , Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye...
in the UK) and
The Day the Earth Caught FireThe Day the Earth Caught Fire is an apocalyptic British science fiction film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961....
(1961).
In 1960, Munro won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress, and in 1962 was nominated for
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading RoleBest Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...
for her performance in
Life for RuthLife for Ruth is a 1962 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, and Frank Finlay....
(released as
Walk in the Shadow and
Condemned to Life in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
).
Personal life
Munro was married to Tony Wright from 1956 until 1959. She married the British actor
Ian HendryIan Hendry was an English film and television actor. He is best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s such as The Avengers, and for his roles in 1970s films such as Get Carter .Hendry was born in Ipswich and educated at Culford School...
in 1963, and they had two children, Sally and Corrie. Munro and Hendry were divorced in 1971.
Death
Janet Munro died in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
on 6 December 1972, aged 38, from
myocarditisIn medicine , myocarditis is inflammation of heart muscle . It resembles a heart attack but coronary arteries are not blocked....
. She was cremated and interred at the
Golders Green CrematoriumGolders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain. It is owned by the London Cremation Co plc, and opened in 1902, designed by the architect Sir Ernest George....
.
Filmography
- Sebastian
Sebastian is a 1968 film directed by David Greene, produced by Michael Powell, Herbert Brodkin and Gerry Fisher, and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
(1968)
- Flower Dew (1968)
- The Admirable Crichton
The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. It was produced by Charles Frohman and opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 4 November, 1902, running for an extremely successful 828 performances. It starred Irene Vanbrugh...
(1968)
- Turn Off If You Know The Ending (1967)
- A Jolly Bad Fellow (1963)
- Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek Released June 1964 is a British thriller film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Ian Carmichael, Curd Jürgens, Janet Munro, Edward Chapman and Esma Cannon. A reserved British astronomer is drawn out of his quiet life and into an affair of international espionage behind the Iron...
(1963)
- Bitter Harvest
Bitter Harvest is the name of a British film released in 1963, based on the book 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton, and starring Janet Munro and John Stride....
(1963)
- Life for Ruth
Life for Ruth is a 1962 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, and Frank Finlay....
(1962)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an apocalyptic British science fiction film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961....
(1961)
- The Horsemasters (1961)
- Swiss Family Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson is a Buena Vista Distribution feature film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, and Sessue Hayakawa in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home. The screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley was loosely based upon the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson by Johann...
(1960)
- Tommy the Toreador
Tommy the Toreador is a 1959 British musical comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Tommy Steele, Janet Munro , Sid James, Bernard Cribbins, Noell Purcell and Kenneth Williams...
(1959)
- Third Man on the Mountain
Third Man on the Mountain is a 1959 American Walt Disney movie set during the golden age of alpinism about a young Swiss man who conquers the mountain that killed his father. It is based on the novel Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman, and was televised under this name...
(1959)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a Walt Disney Pictures feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by Lawrence...
(1959)
- The Trollenberg Terror
The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV television program and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye , Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye...
(1958)
- The Young and the Guilty (1958)
- Small Hotel (1957)
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