Connie Booth
Constance "Connie" Booth (born December 2, 1944 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) is an American screenwriter and actress .
Life
The actress Connie Booth married the English comedian John Cleese on February 20, 1968 . During her ten-year marriage to Cleese, she appeared in the television film How to Irritate People , some parts of the series Monty Python's Flying Circus , the film The Knights of the Coconut and the television series Fawlty Towers , for the latter, she also wrote the with Cleese Scripts. In German-speaking countries, Booth is also known as the mother of the little lord in the 1980 film adaptation of The Little Lord , which ARD repeats every year before Christmas .
In 1995 Booth ended her acting career and settled in London as a psychotherapist . Since 2000 she has been married to the theater critic John Lahr , a son of the actor Bert Lahr , for the second time . Her daughter with John Cleese, Cynthia Cleese , starred in A Fish Called Wanda and Wild Creatures with her father .
Filmography (selection)
- 1968: How to Irritate People (TV movie)
- 1969–1974: Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1971: Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different
- 1975: The Knights of the Coconut (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
- 1975: Romance with a Double Bass
- 1975, 1979: Fawlty Towers (TV series, 12 episodes)
- 1977: Sherlock Holmes and Das Ende der Zivilization as we know it (The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It)
- 1980: A Step into the Void ( Why Didn't They Ask Evans?; TV movie)
- 1980: The Little Lord ( Little Lord Fauntleroy ; TV movie)
- 1982: The Story of Ruth
- 1983: Hound of the Baskervilles ( The Hound of the Baskervilles ; TV movie)
- 1987: Between the Lines (84 Charing Cross Road)
- 1987: Floodtide (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1988: High Spirits
- 1988: Hawks - Die Falken (Hawks)
- 1991: American Friends (American Friends)
- 1992: Leon the Pig Farmer
- 1994: The Tomorrow People (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1995: The Buccaneers ( The Buccaneers ; TV miniseries, 5 episodes)
Web links
- Connie Booth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Connie Booth - British Comedy Guide
- Literature by and about Connie Booth in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Booth, Connie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Booth, Constance |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Indianapolis , Indiana |