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.

Filmography

• 1971The Piano — Mabel
• Play for Today
• 1968Cry Wolf — Polly
• 1968Sebastian — Carol Fancy
• 1968The Admirable Crichton — Tweeny
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Carol
• 1964A Jolly Bad Fellow — Delia Brooks
• 1964Daylight Robbery — Darryl's mum
• 1964Hide and Seek — Maggie
• 1963Bitter Harvest — Jennie
• 1962Afternoon of a Nymph — Elaine
• 1962Life for Ruth — Pat Harris
• 1961The Day the Earth Caught Fire — Jeannie Craig
• 1961The Horsemasters — Janet Hale
• 1960Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
• 1960Swiss Family Robinson — Roberta 'Bertie'
• 1959Darby O'Gill and the Little People — Katie O'Gill
• 1959I Captured the King of the Leprechauns — Katie O'Gill
• 1959Third Man on the Mountain — Lizbeth Hempel
• 1959Tommy the Toreador — Amanda
• 1958The Crawling Eye — Anne Pilgrim
• 1958The Young and the Guilty — Sue Connor
• 1957Small Hotel — Effie
• Armchair Theatre — Anne, Ruth Cornelius, Juliet, Elaine
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Helen Pettigrew, Amanda, Tweeny

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2002Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making — Self (archive)
• 1959Perilous Assignment — Self