Person

Janet Munro

Acting · 1934–1972 · Blackpool, England, UK

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.

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  Play for Today

  1970

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  Thirty-Minute Theatre

  Carol

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  Hallmark Hall of Fame

  Helen Pettigrew

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  Swiss Family Robinson

  Roberta 'Bertie'

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  The Horsemasters

  Janet Hale

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  Armchair Theatre

  Anne

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  Darby O'Gill and the Little People

  Katie O'Gill

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  The Day the Earth Caught Fire

  Jeannie Craig

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  I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

  Katie O'Gill

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  Afternoon of a Nymph

  Elaine

• 2002Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the MakingSelf (archive)
• 1971The PianoMabel
• 1970Play for Today
• 1968The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• 1968Cry WoIfPolly
• 1968The Admirable CrichtonTweeny
• 1968SebastianCarol Fancy
• 1965Thirty-Minute TheatreCarol
• 1964Daylight RobberyDarryl's mum
• 1964Hide and SeekMaggie
• 1964A Jolly Bad FellowDelia Brooks
• 1963Bitter HarvestJennie
• 1962Afternoon of a NymphElaine
• 1962Life for RuthPat Harris
• 1961The Day the Earth Caught FireJeannie Craig
• 1961The HorsemastersJanet Hale
• 1960Swiss Family RobinsonRoberta 'Bertie'
• 1960Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
• 1959Tommy the ToreadorAmanda
• 1959Third Man on the MountainLizbeth Hempel
• 1959Perilous AssignmentSelf
• 1959Darby O'Gill and the Little PeopleKatie O'Gill
• 1959I Captured the King of the LeprechaunsKatie O'Gill
• 1958The Crawling EyeAnne Pilgrim
• 1958The Young and the GuiltySue Connor
• 1957Small HotelEffie
• 1956Armchair TheatreAnne
• 1951Hallmark Hall of FameHelen Pettigrew