Claire Nielson
Birthday
1937/04/08 (88 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Scotland, UK
Also know as
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Biography
Claire Nielson (née Isbister; born 8 April 1937) is a Scottish actress primarily known for her television roles. On television, she played the wife of the belligerent American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of Fawlty Towers, appeared as Jean 'Porridge' Carter, Geoffrey Stock's secretary, in the popular 1960s crime series Ghost Squad and played the wife of Rikki Fulton's character in many sketches of the Scottish Hogmanay show Scotch and Wry from 1978 until 1993. Other TV cre...Read more
Acting
(1987) Double Scotch & Wry
as Various
(1965) The Wild Affair
as Perfume Saleslady
(1962) Backfire!
as Valentina Chenko
(1971) Kidnapped
as Barbara Grant
(1992) Rikki Fulton - Prince of Pochlers in Scotch & Wry 4
as Various
(2002) A Is for Acid
as Amy McSwan
(1990) Triple Scotch & Wry
as Various
(1976) Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as Ellen Simpson
(1986) Scotch & Wry
as ---
(1979) Degree of Uncertainty
as Diana
(1961) The Kitchen
as Waitress
(1975) The Crazy Kill
as Hilary
(1971) Orkney
as Ingi
(2024) Rikki
as Self
(1973) Thriller
as Hilary
(1975) Fawlty Towers
as Mrs. Hamilton
(2000) Monarch of the Glen
as ---
(1983) Taggart
as ---
(1972) Crown Court
as Terry Greene
(1961) Ghost Squad
as ---
(1967) The Revenue Men
as ---
(1971) Upstairs, Downstairs
as Ellen Bouverie
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1967) The Revenue Men
as Luke Frazer
(1971) Justice
as Mary Lurcock
(1973) Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Miss Dixon
(1991) Taking the Floor
as Mrs. Tranter
(1996) The Crow Road
as Aunt Antonia
(1994) Pie in the Sky
as Anita Block
(1978) Scotch and Wry
as ---
(2005) The Very Best of Scotch And Wry
as ---
(1993) I, Lovett
as Mrs. Lovett