As per our current Database, Janet Munro has been died on 6 December 1972(1972-12-06) (aged 38)\nLondon, England.
When Janet Munro die, Janet Munro was 38 years old.
Popular As | Janet Munro |
Occupation | Actress |
Age | 38 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Libra |
Born | September 28, 1934 ( Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) |
Birthday | September 28 |
Town/City | Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Janet Munro’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Janet Munro was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
British Academy Film Awards
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Born Janet Neilson Horsburgh, the daughter of Scottish Comedian Alex Munro (real name Alexander Neilson Horsburgh) and his wife, Phyllis Robert Shaw, in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1934, she used her father's stage name professionally.
Munro appeared in a BBC TV adaptation of I Capture the Castle (1954), playing the lead part of Rose.
Munro was married to Tony Wright from 1956 until 1959. She married the actor Ian Hendry in 1963, and they had two children, Sally and Corrie. Munro and Hendry were divorced in 1971. Her cousin Ellie Nicol-Hilton was a child actor in 1970s and 1980s.
She had a small part in the Gordon Harker comedy Small Hotel (1957) and started appearing regularly on British TV shows such as ITV Television Playhouse ("One of Us", "Pickup Girl", "Lace on Her Petticoat") and Armchair Theatre ("Trial by Candlelight", "The Deaf Heart").
Munro could be seen in ingenue parts in The Trollenberg Terror (1958) and The Young and the Guilty (1958) and had the romantic lead in a TV adaptation of Berkeley Square (1959) for Hallmark Hall of Fame.
After playing Tommy Steele's love interest in Tommy the Toreador (1959), Munro made a third for Disney, Swiss Family Robinson (1960), again romancing MacArthur.
Munro was the female lead in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), one of her best remembered parts.
She had a good role in Life for Ruth (1962) which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Female Actor.
She returned to Armchair Theatre ("Girl in a Bird Cage", "Afternoon of a Nymph") and was top billed in a film for the first time with Bitter Harvest (1963), but it was not a success.
Munro was the female lead in Hide and Seek (1964) and A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964).
Munro travelled to New York to star in a TV adaptation of The Admirable Crichton (1968).
Munro was in ITV Playhouse ("Premiere: Flower Dew"), and Cry Wolf (1969). She had the lead in a series, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1969).
Munro died from a heart attack caused by chronic ischaemic heart disease at Whittington Hospital, north London in 1972, aged 38 years. She was cremated and interred at the Golders Green Crematorium.