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Penny Irving is a Actor British born on 1955 at Hitchin (United-kingdom)

Penny Irving

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Birth name Anne Marie Tricki
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1955 (69 years) at Hitchin (United-kingdom)

Penny Irving (born 1955 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England) is a former actress and Sun newspaper Page 3 model. She is remembered for her roles in the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served? (which she starred in as Miss Bakewell between 1976 and 1979) and in the movie adaptation of The Likely Lads (playing the role of Sandy).
Penny also starred in the cult director Pete Walker's 1974 film House of Whipcord, and would later appear in his 1978 film The Comeback.
As a model, she appeared on the front cover of the compilation LP 'Top of the Pops, Volume 27', which was released in Autumn 1972. She was featured in Mayfair Magazine in December 1972 (Volume 7, Number 12), and for a second time in May 1975 (Volume 10, Number 5). Penny also appeared in Club International in 1980 (Volume 9, Number 10).

Her other TV credits include The Benny Hill Show. The Two Ronnies and Hi-de-Hi!, among many others. She was a hostess on the game show Mr & Mrs in the 1970s. She also played a role in Carry On Dick. She is now retired from acting and currently lives in London.

Usually with

Pete Walker
Pete Walker
(2 films)
David Croft
David Croft
(1 films)
Judy Buxton
Judy Buxton
(2 films)
Stanley Myers
Stanley Myers
(2 films)
Sheila Keith
Sheila Keith
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Penny Irving (6 films)

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Actress

The Comeback, 1h40
Directed by Pete Walker
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Richard Johnson, Bill Owen, Holly Palance
Roles Girl Singer
Rating58% 2.9002352.9002352.9002352.9002352.900235
The film opens with Gail Cooper (Holly Palance) traveling to her ex-husband Nick's (Jack Jones) apartment in Los Angeles in order to remove some of its more valuable items. It soon becomes apparent that while Nick (a successful singer) isn't at home, someone is clearly there. The anonymous person watches Gail take a phone call from a reporter asking about the couple's divorce and inquiring as to when Nick will release his next album, as he's been on a six year hiatus since marrying Gail. As the phone call ends and Gail walks around the house she is ambushed and murdered by the person, who is wearing an old lady mask and women's clothing.
Are You Being Served? The Movie, 1h35
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough
Roles Miss Nicholson, Mr. Grace's secretary.
Rating60% 3.039283.039283.039283.039283.03928
The clothing department's floor requires renovation; rather than let the staff sit idle while the area is closed off, the management sends them on a paid holiday in Costa Plonka, a fictional city in Spain. Their hotel and its surroundings prove to be dismal, and the group tries to pass the time by acting on the crushes they have developed for one another in the workplace. This results in disaster, as multiple amorous notes reach the wrong recipients and everyone gets wrong ideas about who fancies whom.
Aces High
Aces High (1976)
, 1h54
Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, David Wood
Roles French Girl
Rating64% 3.2416953.2416953.2416953.2416953.241695
In a one-week timeframe, life at the front in a RFC squadron is documented. The real story begins a year before with fighter ace Major John Gresham (Malcolm McDowell) speaking to a class of students at Eton public school in October 1916. One year later, a new recruit arrives at Gresham's base in France, 2nd Lt. Croft (Peter Firth). Gresham had been his house captain at Eton and is also the boyfriend of his older sister. Gresham already relies on alcohol to cope with combat stress and continue flying. Now the strain of being responsible for this young recruit (a potential brother-in-law) is an additional burden. Croft has to learn how to survive not only in the air but on the ground as well as he makes some minor mistakes in squadron etiquette.
The Likely Lads, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth, Mary Tamm, Sheila Fearn, Anulka Dziubinska
Roles Sandy
Rating65% 3.2949453.2949453.2949453.2949453.294945
An opening pre-credits sequence shows the conception of both Lads during a World War II Air raid. After the opening titles the film cuts to Bob and Terry, both aged about thirty, playing football with some boys.
Carry On Dick, 1h31
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Barbara Windsor, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims
Roles Bird of Paradise
Rating59% 2.950312.950312.950312.950312.95031
In the year 1750, England is rife with crime and highway robbers. To stop the wave of chaos, King George sets up the first professional police force named the Bow Street Runners, under the command of the bellowing Sir Roger Daley (Bernard Bresslaw), and seconded by Captain Desmond Fancey (Kenneth Williams) and Sergeant Jock Strapp (Jack Douglas). The Runners are apparently successful in wiping out crime and lawlessness – using all manner of traps and tricks to round the criminals up. However their main target is the notorious Richard "Big Dick" Turpin (Sid James), a highwayman who has evaded capture and succeeded in even robbing Sir Roger and his prim wife (Margaret Nolan) of their money and clothing. After this humiliation, Turpin becomes the Bow Street Runners' most wanted man, and thus Captain Fancey is assigned to go undercover and catch the famous Dick Turpin and bring him to justice.
House of Whipcord, 1h42
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ray Brooks, Patrick Barr, Sheila Keith, Penny Irving, Ann Michelle, Ivor Salter
Rating58% 2.9041452.9041452.9041452.9041452.904145
The film opens with a semi-nude young woman running down a highway and being picked up by a trucker.