Laurie Leigh (16 September 1932 - 29 January 2021) was an English actress who appeared in British television and film.
When the first James Bond movie, Dr. No (1962), was being planned, Leigh was working for Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli. Salzman's desk was filled with pictures of handsome men. She spotted Sean Connery, with whom she had appeared in the 1961 television production Anna Karenina. Harry Saltzman asked her view of him. She rated his positively.
Leigh was Bob Hope's personal assistant. She with her son David run an antique glass shop.
Personal life She was married to the clock restorer Woolf Leigh, who died in 1992. David, her son, is an instrument restorer and classical musician.
Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes1961 Anna Karenina Annushka TV movie1962 Emergency Second nurse 1962 Gaolbreak Shirley 1962 Dead Man's Evidence Pat 1963 Paranoiac Woman Uncredited1963 The Marked One Maisie 1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Nurse 1966 Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down Mother short1969 Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Toothpaste Mother Uncredited
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Laurie Leigh Antiques