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Valerie Leon made her West End debut in Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand at London's Prince of Wales Theatre. Many TV appearances include The Saint and The Persuaders both with Roger Moore, The Baron, Randall and Hopkirk deceased, The Avengers, Up Pompeii, Nobody is Norman Wisdom, The Goodies, Roy's Raiders, and The Morecambe and Wise Show. She has also appeared in six of the now classic comedy Carry On films, notably as ‘Leda’ the leader of an all women tribe desperately seeking men in Carry On up the Jungle and as a frumpy secretary who turns into a glamour girl in Carry on Girls. Other film roles include The man who had the power over women, All the way up with Warren Mitchell, The rise and rise of Michael Rimmer with the late Peter Cook, The Italian job with Michael Caine, No sex please, we're British with Ronnie Corbett, Queen Kong and a dual starring role in a Hammer Horror entitled Blood from the mummy's tomb - now a cult movie. She also appeared with Peter Sellers as ‘Tanya The Lotus Eater’ in The revenge of the pink panther and with Roger Moore in The wild geese. |
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Valerie has appeared in two Bond movies The spy who loved me with Roger Moore and as ‘The Lady In The Bahamas’ in Never say never again with Sean Connery. Theatre appearances include: She's done it again with Brian Rix, Play it again Sam, Don't tell the wife with the late great Les Dawson Darling Mr.London with David Jason, Agatha Christie's Black coffee, On the Twentieth Century and Dracula. Valerie has also made several TV commercials but is best remembered for the famous Hai Karate After Shave commercial which ran every Christmas for about seven years. She has recently appeared in an episode of Last of the Summer wine, The green green grass and a short film called A neutral corner with Jody Latham from Shameless .Topics:-
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