Connie Booth

Connie Booth

Nascimento : 1940-12-02, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Connie Booth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Connie Booth

Filmes

Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
In this documentary, Michael Palin tells the story behind his success, after being honoured with a special award at the Baftas in 2013. With an outstanding career in television and film, this special delves into the archives to showcase some of Michael's incredible work, featuring an in-depth interview with the man himself.
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
Polly Sherman (archive footage)
This is the story of a man's bravery to cover the world at war, and what it takes to get images published for the world to see. This is Jason P. Howe's story of survival and change.
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Polly Sherman / herself
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Herself
Fawlty Towers Revisited features the 80-minute, 30th anniversary retrospective TV special on one of the world’s funniest and best-loved comedies, as well as an additional 10 minutes of behind-the-scenes stories and recollections from recent interviews with Fawlty Towers’ cast and crew.
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball ?
Herself
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.
Self
Britain's best sitcom: Fawlty Towers.
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
All the best sketches from the third and fourth series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'The Finals of the All-England Summarise Proust Competition'; 'Stand and Deliver! It's That Highwayman Dennis Moore'; 'Thrust: A Quite Controversial Look at the World Around Us'; 'Whicker's Island'; and 'The Fifteenth Ideal Loon Competition'. Originally broadcast from 19 October 1972 to 18 January 1973, and 31 October to 5 December 1974.
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Compilation of the best Sketches of the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which ran from 5 October 1969 to 11 January 1970. Memorable moments include: 'The 127th Upperclass Twit of the Year Competition from Hurlingham Park'; 'Bicycle Repair Man'; 'Vicious Gangs of Old Ladies - the Layabouts in Lace'; 'The Man with Three Buttocks'; 'The Lumberjack Song'; 'Vocational Guidance Councillor'; and 'The Joke That Kills People'. Oh, and a sketch about a dead parrot.
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
All the best sketches from the second series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'It's in the Mind'; 'The New Cooker Sketch'; 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'; and 'The Ministry for Silly Walks'. Originally Broadcast from 15 September to 22 December 1970
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Herself
Meatloaf introduces a look back at Python's use of music. Included interviews with the team, André Jacquemin and other conspirators.
The Monty Python Story
Herself
The story behind how the comedy sketch group Monty Python formed in 1969, and lead to four very series, and four very funny films that are still has funny today as when they were released.
Leon The Pig Farmer
Yvonne Chadwick
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
American Friends
Caroline Hartley
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
The World of Eddie Weary
Madge
Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in real-life: stuck up, pretentious and selfish, the constant focus of tabloid interest for his bad, usually drunken behaviour. But then he discovers he gets truckloads of mail from fans who think he really is Eddie Weary, asking for his help, so he decides to help them - with the aid of his assistant, Birdie.
Malucos e Libertinos
Marge
Peter está prestes a perder o castelo de sua família na Irlanda, e decide atrair hóspedes anunciando que ele é assombrado. Entretanto, a ficção torna-se realidade, e turistas americanos são assombrados e seduzidos por ancestrais de Peter.
Hawks
Nurse Javis
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Nunca Te Vi, Sempre Te Amei
The Lady from Delaware
Uma história de amor e gosto pelos livros, Nunca Te Vi, Sempre Te Amei apresenta os ganhadores do Oscar Anne Bancroft e Anthony Hopkins atuando de forma excepcional. Helen Hanff (Bancroft), uma escritora mal-humorada, envia uma carta a uma pequena livraria de Londres, solicitando algumas obras Inglesas clássicas raras. Frank Doel (Hopkins), o discreto vendedor inglês de livros, atende a seu pedido, iniciando uma troca de cartas comovente e graciosa entre dois continentes por duas décadas. A aspereza de Hanff contrasta com o comportamento pomposo britânico de Doel, mas o amor mútuo aos livros forma entre eles um elo que se intensifica com o passar dos anos. Suas cartas íntimas e altamente detalhadas descrevendo seus sonhos, esperanças, sofrimentos e alegrias nos faz mergulhar no universo de suas vidas, e eles acabam desenvolvendo uma amizade notável e duradoura.
Past Caring
Linda
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
Nairobi Affair
Mrs. Gardner
A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poachers. As if that wasn't hard enough, he has to deal with his estranged father, now a safari guide, and with the woman they both love.
O Cão dos Baskervilles
Laura Lyons
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
The Deadly Game
Helen Trapp
Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.
O Pequeno Lord
Mrs. Errol
Ceddie Errol, um garoto de 8 anos, mora com sua mãe num decadente prédio de Nova York. Seu pai, Capitão Cedrid Errol, morto há vários anos, era filho de um conde inglês, mas foi deserdado quando casou-se com uma americana. No entanto, sua vida muda surpreendentemente quando seu avô o chama para morar com ele, pois agora é seu único herdeiro e deve ser educado para assumir as responsabilidades e deveres de um aristocrata inglês. Será que Ceddie, tão amoroso e gentil, conseguirá suportar a rabugice de seu avô e a falta de sua mãe que não foi aceita no castelo?
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Sylva Bassington-ffrench
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities. And the only clues the two have to go on are the puzzling last words of a dying man. Featuring characters created by Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a classic crime thriller sure to please murder-mystery fans.
Snavely
Creator
Henry Snavely is a cynical hotelier that in this pilot is faced with the threat of hotel inspectors.
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
The Mermaid Frolics
Various
In May 1977 a second Amnesty benefit was held to build on the success of the first show and with the intent of developing momentum for a regularly-scheduled benefit show.
Spaghetti Two-Step
A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.
84 Charing Cross Road
Ginny
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
Monty Python e o Cálice Sagrado
The Witch
Os Monty Python estão de volta - desta vez à procura do Cálice Sagrado, por terras do reinado de Camelot. Pelo caminho, encontram o estranho Cavaleiro Negro, insultam vários franceses e tropeçam em Cavaleiros que dizem Ni!
The After Dinner Game
Lee-Ann Good
Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.
Romance with a Double Bass
Adaptation
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Romance with a Double Bass
Princess Costanza
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Is This a Record?
Various
John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Jones celebrate the Guinness Book of World Records.
E Agora Algo Completamente Diferente
Best Girl
Monty Python em "E Agora Algo Completamente Diferente" é uma miscelânea de excertos completamente loucos e atrevidos da lendária série de televisão da BBC "Monty Python's Flying Circus", que é tida como um marco histórico da comédia britânica. Considerado o primeira longa-metragem dos Monty Python, esta antologia inclui pontos altos como, por exemplo, "Como não se deixar ver" no qual os participantes são severamente punidos por serem apanhados, bem como um conselheiro matrimonial que faz amor com a mulher do paciente, ou um contador que quer ser domador de leões, além de sequências divertidíssimas como a do papagaio morto e a do programa de televisão "Chantagem" que convida os espectadores a enviarem dinheiro para evitar escândalos. "E Agora Algo Completamente Diferente" é um filme obrigatório para os fãs dos Monty Python e para todos que gostam do humor excêntrico e negro dos britânicos.
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
Princess Mitzi Gaynor
Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 respectively and were shot entirely on film, mostly on location in Bavaria. The first episode was recorded in German and the second was recorded in English and then dubbed into German.
Como Irritar uma Pessoa
Various
Toda a gente consegue ser impopular, mas é preciso um mestre como John Cleese para se ser realmente irritante. O segredo, diz ele, é fazer a outra pessoa acreditar que é completamente sem querer e este é apenas o primeiro dos muitos truques que ele nos ensina! Com a ajuda dos companheiros dos Monty Python Michael Palin e Graham Chapman, de Connie Booth de Fawlty Towers e de goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor, Cleese demonstra a sua incomparável habilidade em manter as suas vítimas à temperatura ideal, mesmo um grau antes de as pôr a ferver!