American Actress. In a career that spanned 4 decades, she will best be remembered for her role as a disembodied head in a pan in the 1962 sci-fi classic 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die.' She met director Stanley Kubrick in the early 1950s, when he took photos of her for the cover of Look magazine and cast her in his 1953 film 'Fear and Desire,' which was not a box-office success. Following her appearance in that film, she was signed by 20th Century Fox and starred in 'Violent Saturday' (1955), 'A Kiss Before Dying' (1956) and 'Toward the Unknown. (1956). Her best-known role was in 'The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,' in which she played the disembodied head of the main character’s fiancee, which he keeps alive after discovering how to keep human body parts from dying. Leith left show business shortly thereafter when she married Canadian actor Donald Harron, but following their divorce, she returned to acting and appeared in numerous television series, including 'Starsky and Hutch,' 'Baretta,' 'Police Woman,' 'The White Shadow,' 'Barnaby Jones' and 'The Next Step Beyond.' Leith, whose final TV role was in 1980's 'Condominium,' died after a brief illness at her home in Palm Springs.
American Actress. In a career that spanned 4 decades, she will best be remembered for her role as a disembodied head in a pan in the 1962 sci-fi classic 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die.' She met director Stanley Kubrick in the early 1950s, when he took photos of her for the cover of Look magazine and cast her in his 1953 film 'Fear and Desire,' which was not a box-office success. Following her appearance in that film, she was signed by 20th Century Fox and starred in 'Violent Saturday' (1955), 'A Kiss Before Dying' (1956) and 'Toward the Unknown. (1956). Her best-known role was in 'The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,' in which she played the disembodied head of the main character’s fiancee, which he keeps alive after discovering how to keep human body parts from dying. Leith left show business shortly thereafter when she married Canadian actor Donald Harron, but following their divorce, she returned to acting and appeared in numerous television series, including 'Starsky and Hutch,' 'Baretta,' 'Police Woman,' 'The White Shadow,' 'Barnaby Jones' and 'The Next Step Beyond.' Leith, whose final TV role was in 1980's 'Condominium,' died after a brief illness at her home in Palm Springs.
Bio by: Louis du Mort
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