
Connie Booth
Oyuncu · d. 1940 · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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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Film7.8MaceraKomediKral Arthur ve şövalyeleri, Kutsal Kâse'yi aramak için ilahi bir görev alırlar. Ancak bu yolculukta karşılarına türlü düşmanlar çıkar: kötü niyetli rakip şövalyeler, yalnızca çizgi film olarak görülebilen kanlı canavarlar, İngiltere'de bir kaleye sığınmış küstah Fransız şövalyeleri, cadılar, şeytani kahinler, Scotland Yard ve hatta bir katil tavşan! Neyse ki bu ölümcül tavşanı alt etmek için Haçlı Seferleri’nden getirilen komik bir kutsal emanetleri vardır: "Antakya’nın Kutsal El Bombası!"
Film7.2KomediBir filmden ziyade tv de yayınladıkları skeçleri bir araya toplayarak oluşturdukları ingiliz esprileri ve klişelerinden oluşan bir yapım. Basit bir örnek vermem gerekirse Olacak O kadar ın sevilen ve bir biri ile bağlantısı olabilecek 5-10 skeci bir kasete toplayıp birilerine izletirseniz aynı And Now for Something Completely Different misali olur.
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971 · 609 votes
Film7.2DramRomantikNew York’ta yaşayan kitap tutkunu yazar Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), nadir ve klasik kitaplar bulmak için Londra’daki Marks & Co. adlı sahaf dükkânına yazılar yazmaya başlar. Kitabevinin nazik ve kültürlü çalışanı Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) ona titizlikle yanıt verir ve zamanla ikisi arasında samimi bir dostluk oluşur.
Film5.8FantastikKomediWhen a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
High Spirits
1988 · 253 votes
Film7.3AileDramYoung Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980 · 323 votes
- Film6.5Komedi
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · 2 votes
Film6.0GizemTV MovieSherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987 · 6 votes
Film6.5KorkuSuçWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983 · 49 votes
Film8.4BelgeselKomedi30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · 5 votes
Film6.7GerilimTV MovieThis 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.
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980 · 18 votes
Film5.4KomediAn 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.
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993 · 17 votes
Film4.8KomediBelgeselThe 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.
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · 3 votes
Film6.6KomediTV MovieA pre-Monty Python mockumentary, written by and presented by John Cleese, that provides tips on learning how to irritate people.
How to Irritate People
1969 · 45 votes
Film6.3GerilimKomediJohn 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 Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977 · 17 votes
Film6.0KomediBelgeselJohn Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Jones celebrate the Guinness Book of World Records.
Is This a Record?
1973 · 1 votes
Film6.1KomediRomantikA 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
1974 · 13 votes
Film7.0BelgeselKomediThis special one-hour documentary reflects on Michael Palin's fascinating career as a BAFTA-winning actor, writer and presenter.
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018 · 3 votes
- Film7.0KomediSuç
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.
The World of Eddie Weary
1990 · 1 votes
Film7.0RomantikDramAdaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
84 Charing Cross Road
1975 · 2 votes
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Dizi6.6DramKomediAmerican Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
American Playhouse
1982 · 8 votes
Dizi6.6DramPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
Dizi7.0DramJim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.
Bergerac
1981 · 25 votes
Dizi7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
- Dizi5.1
The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Film '72
1971 · 8 votes
Dizi8.3KomediMonty Python topluluğunun orijinal gerçeküstü skeç komedi gösterisi.
Dizi8.3KomediOtel sahibi Basil Fawlty'nin beceriksizliği, çabuk sinirlenmesi ve kibri öyle bir kombinasyon oluşturur ki, kazalar ve sorunlar asla uzak değildir.
Fawlty Towers
1975 · 853 votes
Dizi5.0KomediA series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started in 1976 featuring popular British comedians but later included leading musicians and actors. The Secret Policeman's Ball shows are credited by many prominent entertainers with having galvanised them to become involved with Amnesty and other social and political causes in succeeding years.
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · 1 votes
Dizi6.2ÇocukBilim Kurgu ve FantastikWorzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as Worzel Gummidge Down Under, which was set in New Zealand.
Worzel Gummidge
1979 · 13 votes
Dizi6.0DramBecause of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. The girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.
The Buccaneers
1995 · 21 votes
Dizi7.3DramA 13-episode miniseries from Yorkshire Television, about Charles Dickens, by now an internationally renowned novelist, during an 1869 tour of America, looking back over his life.
Dickens of London
1976 · 3 votes
Dizi5.8DramBilim Kurgu ve FantastikWorlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.
Worlds Beyond
1986 · 5 votes
Dizi8.0BelgeselRealiteDocumentary series that celebrates the incredible careers of the best of British talent.
A Life on Screen
2014 · 1 votes
Dizi9.0SuçDramFor the Greater Good is a three-part 1991 BBC Two television drama serial written by G.F. Newman and directed by Danny Boyle. It centres on three politicians attempting to reform the British prison system. However, their efforts are undermined when the tabloid press exposes their private lives.
For the Greater Good
1991 · 1 votes
Dizi7.6KomediMonty Python's Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely on film and mostly on location in Bavaria, with the first episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German.
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
1972 · 14 votes
Dizi9.5DramMichael Gambon stars in this high-tension thriller of political corruption and international intrigue. Peter Moreton, a high-ranking government official, scrambles to keep his secret lifestyle hidden from the world when his daughter purposely leaks his affair to a reporter she is dating. Nick Simon is the reporter caught between his love for Moreton’s daughter Polly and his desperation to keep his job and land the biggest story of his career.
Faith
1994 · 2 votes