
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".
As she grew older, she gained more prominent roles such as Elise in Song of Love and Peggy in The Boy with Green Hair. As a young adult she had a good role as the female lead in the 1957 Western film Escape from Red Rock.
Apart from films, Eilene Janssen also acted in television series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Mister Ed, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Tales of Wells Fargo, Make Room for Daddy, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Beverly Hillbillies and Perry Mason.
She retired from acting in 1968. As of 2004, she is residing in Pasadena, California.
Janssen married Harry Ronald Rothschild on November 29, 1957. They had two children together before they divorced in 1962. She then married Thomas Alexander Orchard, in 1963. They had one child together before their 1966 divorce. Janssen married George Ellis Moore in 1968. They had two children together before he died in 2000. CLR

The Green Years
1946 · as Alison Keith as a child

On Our Merry Way
1948 · as Peggy Thorndyke

The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · as Peggy

Beginning of the End
1957 · as William's Date

It Happened Tomorrow
1944

Black Zoo
1963 · as Bride

Song of Love
1947 · as Elise Schumann

Panic in the City
1968 · as Information Clerk

Rendezvous 24
1946 · as Anchaka Schmidt

A Midsummer Daydream
1955 · as Girl

About Mrs. Leslie
1954 · as Pixie Croffman

Sally and Saint Anne
1952 · as Young Jeanne

Till We Meet Again
1944 · as Yvonne

Wild Horse Ambush
1952 · as Judy

The Dakota Kid
1951 · as Judy Dawson

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
1951 · as Judy Dawson

Escape from Red Rock
1957 · as Janie Acker

Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948 · as Betty