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Penny Irving

Date of birth:

Place of birth: Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Known for: Acting

Also known as:

Penny Irving

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

House of Whipcord
3

House of Whipcord

1974-04-19

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warde

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1.4

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

1976-08-01

Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young

Big Zapper
1.2

Big Zapper

1973-07-05

A female private detective, Harriet Zapper, is hired by a rich old man to find his missing children,

Percy's Progress
1.8

Percy's Progress

1974-08-01

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the wo

Spectre
3

Spectre

1977-05-21

An occult criminologist investigates a businessman who dabbles in the black arts while trying to sur

Vampira
2.5

Vampira

1974-10-10

In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from sever

The Likely Lads
3

The Likely Lads

1976-02-01

With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads

Aces High
3

Aces High

1976-05-19

The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the

Carry On Dick
2.9

Carry On Dick

1974-02-01

Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock St

The Comeback
2.8

The Comeback

1978-06-16

A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murd

Are You Being Served? The Movie
2.4

Are You Being Served? The Movie

1977-06-10

In this feature film version of the popular BBC sitcom, the staff of Grace Brothers go on holiday to

Tiffany Jones
2

Tiffany Jones

1973-08-16

Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on

That's Carry On!
2.9

That's Carry On!

1977-11-10

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will