Claire Gordon

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Claire Gordon or Clare Gordon (was born 1941) in the City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK. Her father was a doctor, and her mother a make-up artist, who worked for Max Factor. Gordon is a British actress known for leading and cameo roles in many British movies, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. She also worked with most television and comedy stars of this period.

She made her West End theatre debut on a motor bike in The Darling Buds of May and then created the role of Peggy Evans in Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn. She later made theatrical history as the first actress to appear naked on stage in The Three Musketeers, playing Lady De Winter. The New Statesman wrote, "watch out for the bath scene; it's a breakthrough."

Most recently, she played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at the Princes Theatre, Hunstanton and is currently working on her memoirs.

She was married to the roue William Donaldson and later divorced.

Filmography

• 1958: The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour (TV-Series)
• 1958: I Only Arsked!
• 1960: And Women Shall Weep
• 1960: Never Let Go
• 1960: Beat Girl
• 1960: Danger Man (TV-Series)
• 1960: The Bulldog Breed
• 1961: Ticket to Paradise
• 1961: Konga
• 1961: The Young Ones
• 1964: Due evasi di Sing Sing, I
• 1965: Licensed to Kill
• 1968: Great Catherine
• 1970: Cool It Carol!
• 1971: Suburban Wives
• 1973: Commuter Husbands
• 1973: Sex Farm
• 1984: Play for Today (TV-Series)

External links

• Claire Gordon at the Internet Movie Database
• Photograph on the cover of Picturegoer magazine

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