Lynda Bellingham taking a bath

Lynda Bellingham taking a bath

Cork Film Festival, Lynda Bellingham, Norman Cohen

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Lynda Bellingham taking a bath. She has a mischievous grin on her face and little else except bath bubbles to dress her. The location of the bath is not identified but as the photo is credited to the Cork-based photographer Donal Sheehan we guess that the bathroom must be Cork-based too. The white-tiled bathroom, with a white transistor radio perched on the ledge of the bath, provides the perfect backdrop to the olive-toned skin of a glowing Bellingham.

Born in 1948 and adopted later that year, Lynda Bellingham was an English actor, broadcaster, and author who was a familiar presence on British television, in particular for her work as a lunchtime chat show host on ‘Loose Women’ between 2007 and 2011, with whom she made more than 300 appearances. She also had a long-standing television career with such shows as All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who, as well as film credits that include Confessions of a Driving Instructor (Claire Brough, 1976) and Stand up, Virgin Soldiers (Norman Cohen, 1977) which would have coincided with her visit to the festival in the late seventies.

Bellingham was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013 for her services to charity work. She published her autobiography There’s Something I’m Dying to Tell You in 2014, shortly before her death from cancer later that year, at the age of 66.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1976

Donal Sheehan

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1976
Cork, Ireland

Photo

252 x 200mm