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Claire Gordon
Claire Gordon (16 January 1941 – 13 April 2015) was an English film actress and comedienne known for leading and cameo roles in many British movies from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, and for working with most of the television comedy stars of that time. She was best known for her leading roles in the cult films ''Konga'' and ''Beat Girl'', Gordon became the subject of singer Scott Walker's song "Archangel".
==Career==
Gordon was born in Cambridge, in England. Her father was a doctor and her mother a make-up artist who worked for Max Factor. After being photographed by chance at the Queens Ice Rink, Bayswater, for the cover of the magazine ''Lilliput'', she was signed to a five-year contract with film agent Bill Watts and played a harem girl in the Bernard Bresslaw film ''I Only Arsked!'' (1958),〔Wayne Kinsey, ''Hammer Films: the Bray Studio Years'' (Reynolds & Hearn, 2002)〕 before making her first stage appearance, still aged only seventeen, in ''Meet the Cousin'', which starred Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert.〔Terence Blacker, ''You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This'' (2007)〕 The show opened at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and it was there that she met her husband-to-be William Donaldson, later better known as Henry Root, who was just starting out as a theatrical producer.
Following a spell in repertory at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, playing a Russian spy in Agatha Christie's ''Verdict'' and a gum-chewing blonde in ''Brighton Rock'' and some pre-London tours, she made her West End theatre debut on a motorbike in ''The Darling Buds of May'' at the Saville Theatre; and then played the role of Peggy, a dumb blonde film starlet, in a show-stopping scene with Michael Crawford in Neil Simon's first hit ''Come Blow Your Horn'' at London's Prince of Wales Theatre,
Later, at Donaldson's request, she appeared as an entirely French-speaking Lady Fifi de Winter in an improvised production of ''The Three Musketeers''〔 with Bruce Lacey and The Alberts, at the Arts Theatre. Donaldson's talent for presenting controversial and often money-losing shows didn't desert him; the show ran for two weeks; and Gordon made theatrical history as the first actress to appear naked on stage.("Watch out for the bath scene; it's a breakthrough", wrote ''The New Statesman''.) Most recently, she played the Fairy Godmother in ''Cinderella'' at the Princess Theatre, Hunstanton, and worked with Sarah Louise Young in Clive Evans's two woman show ''The Nunnery''.
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