Lynda Bellingham and Linda Hayden with Bobby Howick and others

Lynda Bellingham and Linda Hayden with Bobby Howick and others

Cork Film Festival, Lynda Bellingham, Linda Hayden, Dick Beamish, Bobby Howick, Guinness

This is a black and white photo of English actors Lynda Bellingham, Linda Hayden, and their unidentified colleague, with Dick Beamish and the trade director from Guinness, Bobby Howick. The three women are each holding a long-stemmed red rose while Beamish, on the right, holds a pint of Guinness.

Both Lynda Bellingham and Linda Hayden feature in the archive extensively from their visit to Cork in the 1970s. Hayden, on the far right in this picture, wearing jeans and a white blouse, was best known for her roles in British horror films and sex comedies such as Hammer’s Taste the Blood of Dracula (Peter Sasdy, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, The Blood on Satan’s Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971), Confessions of a Window Cleaner (Val Guest, 1974), and Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977) by the Irish director Norman Cohen. Hayden was the partner of the actor Robin Askwith for some time in the 1970s, and who also starred in the Confessions sex comedy series. Askwith would be the best man at the wedding of Lynda Bellingham and the film producer Greg Smith  – both of whom were at the Cork Film Festival in the 1970s. Bellingham, at the centre of this picture, wearing a long light-coloured dress, worked with her husband Smith and the Irish director Cohen in a number of movies including Confessions of a Driving Instructor (Clare Brough, 1976) and Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (Norman Cohen, 1977) starring Robin Askwith, Pamela Stephenson and Miriam Margolyes.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1976

Donal Sheehan

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TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1976
Cork, Ireland

Photo

253 x 201mm