Janet Munro
Date of birth: 1934-09-28
Place of birth: Blackpool, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Janet Neilson Horsburgh
Biography
Born Janet Neilson Horsburgh, Janet Munro, was an English actress, best known for Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. and Life for Ruth (1962), for which she received a BAFTA Film Award nomination. She died aged 38 of a heart condition.
Movie Credits
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961-11-01
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're
The Crawling Eye
1958-07-07
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg
Third Man on the Mountain
1959-11-10
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small
Swiss Family Robinson
1960-12-21
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressiv
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959-06-24
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his da
Afternoon of a Nymph
1962-09-30
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on fro
Tommy the Toreador
1959-12-21
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he
Bitter Harvest
1963-03-08
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales.
Hide and Seek
1964-06-21
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian
Perilous Assignment
1959-11-06
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behi
Sebastian
1968-01-24
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Int
The Young and the Guilty
1958-01-01
Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret.
Life for Ruth
1962-09-06
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His
A Jolly Bad Fellow
1964-03-15
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas t
Small Hotel
1957-10-14
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd
The Admirable Crichton
1968-05-02
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual
Daylight Robbery
1964-12-01
Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store th
The Horsemasters
1961-10-01
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox i
Cry WoIf
1968-12-01
A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobo
The Piano
1971-01-28
Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
1959-05-29
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
2002-05-07
A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960-12-18
A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago