Eilene Janssen

May 25, 1938 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson.

She began her film career as a child actress in the early 1940s. With her father being a longtime worker for Universal Studios, Eilene Janssen made her first screen appearance in the 1940 film Sandy Gets Her Man. She continued to have bit parts in several movies such as Two Girls and a Sailor and It Happened Tomorrow. In 1944, she was awarded the title "Little Miss America".

Often works with

James Bell
4 titles together
The Search for Bridey Murphy, About Mrs. Leslie, Arizona Manhunt
Frank Wilcox
2 titles together
The Beverly Hillbillies, Beginning of the End
Frank Cady
2 titles together
The Beverly Hillbillies, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Robert Ryan
2 titles together
The Boy with Green Hair, About Mrs. Leslie
Dean Stockwell
2 titles together
The Boy with Green Hair, The Green Years
Billy Gray
2 titles together
Father Knows Best, Curley

Full filmography · 24

Panic in the City
as Information Clerk
1968
Black Zoo
as Bride
1963
Escape from Red Rock
as Janie Acker
1957
Beginning of the End
as William's Date
19574
The Search for Bridey Murphy
as Bridey Murphy Age 15
1956
About Mrs. Leslie
as Pixie Croffman
1954
Sally and Saint Anne
as Young Jeanne
1952
Wild Horse Ambush
as Judy
1952
Arizona Manhunt
as Judy Dawson
1951
The Dakota Kid
as Judy Dawson
1951
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
as Judy Dawson
1951
The Boy with Green Hair
as Peggy
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