Biography
Ellie Janov
Real name: Ellen Lisa Janov
Effective period / Period of releases: 1967
Actress, singer and recording artist (born April 22, 1953 - died January 7, 1976). Daughter of noted "Primal Scream" therapist Arthur Janov, she signed to Capitol Records at the age of 14, having been discovered by Henry Mancini (aged 11), and Hoagy Carmichael (aged 12) playing clubs in Palm Springs. Her one movie role also came at age 14, starring alongside Kurt Russell and Dean Jones in a Disney production, her only other "role" being an extremely brief incidental appearance in the infamous Rolling Stones Cocksucker Blues documentary. She followed her father into Primal Therapy, having given up on show business in 1969. She died in Los Angeles County aged 22, the result of a house fire.