Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1934-09-28

Deathday

1972-12-06 (38 years old)

Place of Birth

Blackpool, England, UK

Also Known As

Janet Neilson Horsburgh

Janet Munro

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.

Known For

6.9%

Swiss Family Robinson

Dec 21, 1960

6.8%

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Nov 1, 1961

6.7%

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Jun 24, 1959

4.7%

The Crawling Eye

Jul 7, 1958

6.7%

Third Man on the Mountain

Nov 10, 1959

6.0%

Sebastian

Jan 24, 1968

6.2%

Bitter Harvest

Mar 8, 1963

6.1%

Play for Today

Oct 15, 1970

6.4%

Life for Ruth

Sep 6, 1962

8.7%

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dec 24, 1951

8.7%

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dec 24, 1951

8.7%

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dec 24, 1951

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Acting

2002

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making as Self (archive)

1971

The Piano as Mabel

1970

Play for Today

1968		The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1968		Cry WoIf as Polly
1968		The Admirable Crichton as Tweeny
1968		Sebastian as Carol Fancy

1964		Daylight Robbery
1964		Hide and Seek as Maggie
1964		A Jolly Bad Fellow as Delia Brooks

1963

Bitter Harvest as Jennie

1962		Afternoon of a Nymph as Elaine
1962		Life for Ruth as Pat Harris

1961		The Day the Earth Caught Fire as Jeannie Craig
1961		The Horsemasters as Janet Hale

1960		Swiss Family Robinson as Roberta 'Bertie'
1960		Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

1959		Tommy the Toreador as Amanda
1959		Third Man on the Mountain as Lizbeth Hempel
1959		Perilous Assignment as Self
1959		Darby O'Gill and the Little People as Katie O'Gill
1959		I Captured the King of the Leprechauns as Katie O'Gill

1958		The Crawling Eye as Anne Pilgrim
1958		The Young and the Guilty as Sue Connor

1957

Small Hotel as Effie

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Helen Pettigrew
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Amanda
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Tweeny