Daughter of Alex Munro.
God-daughter of Frank Randle.
In her 1958 movie The Crawling Eye (1958), portraying Anne Pilgrim, she alighted from a train onto a platform displaying a large poster advertising the Swiss Skiing resort of Zermatt. Three years later she arrived in the real Zermatt to film Disney's Classic Movie Third Man on the Mountain (1959) with Michael Rennie and James MacArthur.
It was while filming the "Adam Smith" (1972) series in Scotland that Janet had complained to a local doctor about severe pains in the stomach. He thought it might be an ulcer and suggested she saw her own Doctor in London. Her own Doctor booked her for a scan which involved the usual no intake of food for ten hours and then a barium meal. After the scan she was driving home and blacked out, crashing into the back of a parked car. Wearing seat belts or laminated screens was not compulsory in those days and the impact sent her straight through the windscreen. The resultant injuries left her blind for 4 days with 130 stitches. Her surgeon was confident the facial injuries would heal eventually leaving no scars. Her sight had only recovered in one eye and she was to spend the next six months having treatment on her eyes. Her daughter Sally who been in the back of the car had suffered only minor injuries.
Mother, with Ian Hendry, of daughters Sally Hendry and Connie Hendry.
Shares the same date of birth as Brigitte Bardot.
When Janet began to walk, she would often toddle across the stage as her father, comedic entertainer Alex Munro, was performing. On one occasion he looked around to catch her making an unscheduled entrance. "Aw look at the size of it", he exclaimed and that became his catchphrase. Heronafter his name appeared on posters and playbills as Alex "The Size Of It" Munro.