British Comedy Guide

Alan Clare

  • Actor and musician

Press clippings

Radio Times review

Some of the freewheeling lunacy, cracker-joke disguises and general corpsing from Milligan's six Q series for the BBC from 1969-82 are shown tonight and tomorrow at 10.30pm. Fortunately most of the stereotyping and sexism of the period has hit the editor's bin. But the programmes do show how many great stooges Milligan had, from Huw Wheldon/Hughie Green impersonator John Bluthal and simpleton-voiced Alan Clare to David "I was in Cockleshell Heroes, you know" Lodge.

Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 10th December 2014

'Spike Milligan was not an easy man to work for'

Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's assistant and manager for 36 years, recalls an evening out with her boss and their friends Peter Sellers, Bill Kerr and Alan Clare in 1979.

Jessica Salter, The Telegraph, 18th November 2011

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