Connie Booth
- Schauspiel
- 2. Dezember 1940 · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Biografie
Constance "Connie" Booth (born 2 December 1940) is an American writer and actress, known for appearances on British television and particularly for her portrayal of Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s television show Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then husband John Cleese. In 1995, she quit acting and worked as a psychotherapist until her retirement. Booth was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 2, 1940. Her father was a Wall Street stockbroker and her mother was an actress. The family later moved to New York State. Booth entered acting and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress. She met John Cleese while he was working in New York City; they married on February 20, 1968. Booth secured parts in episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and in the Python films And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, as a woman accused of being a witch). She also appeared in How to Irritate People (1968), a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members; a short film titled Romance with a Double Bass (1974) which Cleese adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov; and The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977), Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof, as Mrs. Hudson Booth and Cleese co-wrote and co-starred in Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979), in which she played waitress and chambermaid Polly. For thirty years Booth declined to talk about the show until she agreed to participate in a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009. Booth played various roles on British television, including Sophie in Dickens of London (1976), Mrs. Errol in a BBC adaptation of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) and Miss March in a dramatisation of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers (1995). She also starred in the lead role of a drama called The Story of Ruth (1981), in which she played the role of the schizophrenic daughter of an abusive father. In 1994, she played a supporting role in "The Culex Experiment", an episode of the children's science fiction TV series The Tomorrow People. Booth also had a stage career, primarily in the London theatre, appearing in 10 productions from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, notably starring with John Mills in the 1983–1984 West End production of Little Lies at Wyndham's Theatre
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Filmografie
- Fawlty Towers: The Play · Buch
- The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
- Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs · Selbst
- Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
- A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey · Polly Sherman (archive footage)
- A Life on Screen · Selbst
- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened · Self / Polly Sherman
- Fawlty Towers Revisited · Selbst
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy · Polly Sherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? · Selbst
- The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2 · Selbst
- The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1 · Selbst
- The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3 · Selbst
- The Monty Python Story · Selbst
- Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm · Selbst
- The Buccaneers · Jackie March
- Faith · Pat Harbinson
- Leon The Pig Farmer · Yvonne Chadwick
- Smack and Thistle · Ms Kane
- Amerikanische Freundinnen · Caroline Hartley
- For the Greater Good · Naomi Balliol
- The World of Eddie Weary · Madge
- High Spirits · Marge
- Hawks - Die Falken · Nurse Javis
- Zwischen den Zeilen · The Lady from Delaware
- Eine Pfeife in Amerika · Violet Morstan
- Past Caring · Linda
- Worlds Beyond · Betty Hewart
- Rocket to the Moon · Belle Stark
- Nairobi Affair · Mrs. Gardner
- Der Hund von Baskerville · Laura Lyons
- The Deadly Game · Helen Trapp
- The Story of Ruth · Ruth Baker
- American Playhouse · Belle Stark
- Bergerac · Monica McLeod
- Der kleine Lord · Mrs. Errol
- Warum haben Sie nicht Evans gefragt? · Sylva Bassington-ffrench
- Die Vogelscheuche · Aunt Sally II
- Thank You, Comrades · Annie
- Snavely · Idee
- Sherlock Holmes oder Der sonderbare Fall vom Ende der Zivilisation · Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
- The Mermaid Frolics · Various
- Spaghetti Two-Step · Sheila
- Dickens of London · Sophie
- The Secret Policeman's Ball · Selbst
- 84 Charing Cross Road · Ginny
- Fawlty Towers · Polly Sherman, Buch
- Monty Python: Die Ritter der Kokosnuss · The Witch
- The After Dinner Game · Lee-Ann Good
- Romance with a Double Bass · Princess Costanza, Adaptation
- Is This a Record? · Various
- Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus · Various Characters
- Film '72 · Selbst
- Monty Pythons wunderbare Welt der Schwerkraft · Best Girl
- Play for Today · Lee-Ann Good, Ginny
- Monty Python's Flying Circus · Various, Second Juror
- How to Irritate People · Various
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Libby