Virginia Leith
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actress. She is best known for playing Jan, the disembodied head kept alive in The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). She appeared in a handful of films in the 1950s, including Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956), before leaving acting.
Acted In
War, Drama
Four soldiers stranded behind enemy lines in an unnamed war make their way toward a river and escape, killing an enemy officer and a peasant girl along the way. Stanley Kubrick's first feature, made on a tiny budget with a crew of friends; he later disowned it and tried to suppress it. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
War · Drama
Fear and Desire
1953 - as The Girl
Horror, Sci-Fi
A surgeon crashes his car and saves his fiancée by keeping her severed head alive in a tray of fluid in his laboratory. While she grows increasingly unhinged and telepathically commands a monstrous experiment locked in the closet, he scours the city's nightclubs and back alleys for a body to attach to her. The Brain That Wouldn't Die is a sleazy, low-budget cult film that became a staple of late-night television and was later mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Its mix of mad-science horror and exploitation is pure early-1960s B-picture. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal of its copyright.
Horror · Sci-Fi
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
1962 - as Jan Compton