Connie Sawyer
- Schauspiel
- 27. November 1912 · Pueblo, Colorado, USA
- 22. Januar 2018
Biografie
Connie Sawyer (born Rosie Cohen, November 27, 1912, in Pueblo, Colorado; died January 21, 2018, in Woodland Hills, California) was an American stage, film, and television actress of Romanian-Jewish descent, affectionately nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy." She grew up in Oakland, California, began performing in vaudeville as a child, and appeared on variety television in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her first film role came at age 46 as Miss Wexler in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head (1959, with Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson), a part she had originated on Broadway. Over her nine-decade career she accumulated more than 140 credits and was still working past the age of 100, appearing on NCIS: Los Angeles (2013) and opposite Zooey Deschanel in New Girl (2014). Her most notable film credits include Mrs. McBee in The Way West (1967), a Woman at the Hanging in True Grit (1969, with John Wayne), a role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Mrs. Levi in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975, with Max von Sydow), a heavenly customer in Oh, God! (1977, with Goldie Hawn), Gitel in And Justice for All (1979, with Al Pacino), a Documentary Couple in When Harry Met Sally... (1989, with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan), the woman who steals Jim Carrey's wallet in Dumb and Dumber (1994), a role in Out of Sight (1998, with George Clooney and Steve Martin), Faye Belogus in Pineapple Express (2008, with Seth Rogen and James Franco), and Nana Bebe in Lovesick (2014, with Matt LeBlanc). On television she appeared in Seinfeld (1989), Will & Grace, ER (2006), The Office (2005), How I Met Your Mother (2007), 2 Broke Girls (2012), and Ray Donovan (2013, as James Woods's mother), with earlier credits in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970, 1975), Hawaii Five-O, Dynasty (1981), Murder, She Wrote (1986, 1991), Home Improvement (1991), and Archie Bunker's Place (1979).
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Filmografie
- Sunset over Hollywood · Selbst
- Showfolk · Selbst
- Lovesick - Liebe an, Verstand aus · Bebe
- New Girl · Oldest Woman in the World
- 2 Broke Girls · Elderly Lady
- Up All Night · Shopper
- Troupers
- Stichtag · Elderly Airport Passenger (uncredited)
- NCIS: Los Angeles · Ida
- Ananas Express · Faye Belogus
- Relative Strangers · Old Lady
- How I Met Your Mother · Old Lady
- The Office · Nana
- Neds ultimativer Schulwahnsinn · June
- Promised Land · Hazel
- Was das Herz begehrt · Lady in Market
- Flight Girls · Grandma Stewart
- Meine wilden Töchter · Louise's Mother
- The Michael Richards Show · Old Woman
- CSI - Den Tätern auf der Spur · Old Lady
- Girlfriends · Martha
- Becker · Mrs. Yudelson
- Will & Grace · Old Woman
- L.A. Docs · Mrs. Connor
- Die wilden Siebziger · Aunt Pearl
- Out of Sight · Old Elevator Lady
- Veronica · Margaret
- Scorpion Spring · Diner Waitress
- Gefahr aus dem Weltall 2 · Mrs. Otis
- Sliders · Winifred
- Abandoned and Deceived · Rose
- Auf schlimmer und ewig · Old Woman
- Dumm und Dümmer · Elderly Lady
- Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes · Motel Clerk
- Emergency Room – Die Notaufnahme · Kathy Brennan, Second Old Lady
- Das Leben und Ich · Foofie
- Immer Ärger mit Dave · Mrs. Bondurant
- The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them · Waitress from Hell
- Majority Rule · Mary
- Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story · Elderly Woman
- Hör mal, wer da hämmert · Old Lady
- Blue Heat - Hilf dir selbst oder stirb · Elderly Lady 1
- Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten · Ruskin Family Member
- The End of Innocence · Grandma
- Alles total normal · Rita
- Dream On · Aunt Ruth
- Harry und Sally · Documentary Couple
- Seinfeld · Old Woman
- Lolita Kill · Viney Hunt
- That's Adequate · Mrs. Duke Thorpe
- Murphy Brown · Woman on Elevator
- Fatman – Der Dicke und ich · Helen
- Nights in White Satin · Martha the Bag Lady
- Matlock · Mrs. Kowalski
- 227
- Hot Chili · Mrs. Houston
- Do You Remember Love · Joan
- The Rosebud Beach Hotel · Carlotta
- V - Die ausserirdischen Besucher kommen zurück · Old Woman
- Mord ist ihr Hobby · Ethel, Elderly Lady
- Just Our Luck
- Silver Spoons · Miss Bushmill
- Polizeirevier Hill Street · Bag Lady, Tessie
- Der Denver-Clan
- ...und Gerechtigkeit für alle · Gitel
- Archie Bunker's Place
- Die Chance seines Lebens · Mom
- Die Geliebte des Präsidenten · Cleaning Lady
- Oh Gott … · Mrs. Green
- Big Hawaii
- Lou Grant · Woman
- Little Ladies of the Night · Female Guard (uncredited)
- Delvecchio · Judge Olsen
- Laverne & Shirley
- Starsky & Hutch · Nurse, Manager
- Welcome Back, Kotter · Aunt Josephine
- The Man in the Glass Booth · Mrs. Levi
- Detektiv Rockford - Anruf genügt · Mrs. Fornechefsky
- Good Times · Personnel Woman
- Kojak · Landlady, Mary Benson