Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. Leigh was...

Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan...

Vera (Cyrillic: Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera meaning "true"...

vested interests of a few." Leigh has been nominated at the Academy Awards seven times: twice each for Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake (Best Original Screenplay...

Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown (1793–1867), eldest son of Thomas Pemberton Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892–1944), air chief marshal Vera Leigh (1903–1944)...

Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations...

of Peter Churchill and Odette Sansom; Sidney Jones, Marcel Clech, and Vera Leigh; Henri Frager; Maurice Pertschuk, and Marcus Bloom. Survived. Yolande...

Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress. She is known for appearing in John Ford's Western films The Searchers...

Blue is a 1947 American screwball comedy film based on the short story by Vera Caspary who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars George Brent, Virginia...

the SD (German counter-intelligence) headquarters in Paris. 30 October Vera Leigh was arrested at a café near the Place des Ternes in Paris and taken to...

its organiser Sidney Jones, wireless operator Marcel Clech, and courier Vera Leigh, all of whom were executed, and resulting in the collapse of the network...

Mike Leigh is an English director and writer known for his work in film, television and stage. West Eleven (1963) - Uncredited Two Left Feet (1965) -...

British SOE agents were executed together on 6 July 1944: Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Andrée Borrel and Sonya Olschanezky. Brian Stonehouse of the British...

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Selena St. George Ellen Muth as Young Selena Taffara Jessica Stella Murray as 5-year-old Selena Judy Parfitt as Vera Donovan Christopher...

from the police, the coroner informs Vera that Leigh died of natural causes. Later, in Leigh's home, Vera finds Leigh's files from the couple's house and...

network. Executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp c. 5 February 1945. Vera Leigh England 1903 1944 KCBC 23 May 1943, Lysander aeroplane Code name: Simone;...

Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy...

millinery establishment in Paris founded in 1927 by Madame Fernand Cleuet, Vera Leigh, and one other. It closed in 1970. During its time, it was considered...

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its organiser Sidney Jones, wireless operator Marcel Clech, and courier Vera Leigh, all of whom were executed, and resulting in the collapse of the network...

with Vera Leigh ("Simone") as courier. On the night of 14 May 1943 he was brought by Lysander piloted by Hugh Verity with Sidney Jones and Vera Leigh to...

Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress and model. She has starred in the films The Baby-Sitters Club (1995), She's All That...

Olschanezky together with three other captured SOE agents, Andrée Borrel, Vera Leigh and Diana Rowden, were moved from Fresnes to the Gestapo's Paris headquarters...

Lysander piloted by Hugh Verity, with Marcel Clech as wireless operator, and Vera Leigh as courier, to re-form the INVENTOR network, working alongside DONKEYMAN...

Gabriella Leigh Bechtel (born July 28, 1997), better known as Gabbriette, is an American model and musician. She first gained prominence as the lead vocalist...

(1917) Noor Inyat Khan (1944) Josef Jakobs (1941) Cecily Lefort (1945) Vera Leigh (1944) Carl Hans Lody (1914) John Kenneth Macalister (1944) Karl Heinrich...

Rowden and Noor Inayat Khan, Killed at Ravensbrück concentration camp Vera Leigh France British 1903–1944 King's Commendation for Brave Conduct Killed...

13 May 1944, Borrel along with three other captured female SOE agents, Vera Leigh, Sonia Olschanezky and Diana Rowden, were moved from Fresnes to 84 Avenue...

Twizzle and Torchy, Leigh teamed with Barry Gray for three musical compositions (Riding My Bike, Sleeping Time and Why?) featured on Vera Lynn's 1955 album...

role in Vera.[citation needed] She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama in 2003. "Mike Leigh Reveals the...