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Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940 [1] [a]) is an American actress and writer. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including her role as Polly Sherman on BBC Two's 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.
Romance with a Double Bass is a 1974 British short comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring John Cleese and Connie Booth. [1] It was adapted by Young, Cleese and Booth (uncredited) [2] from a screenplay by Bill Owen based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon.
Running for 12 episodes (two series of six episodes apiece) in 1975 and 1979, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s Torquay-set comedy was a paragon of restraint. From the writing through to the ...
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John Marwood Cleese (/ ˈ k l iː z / KLEEZ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter.Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report.
One of the reasons that it touched perfection is because Cleese and his original co-writer, his then wife Connie Booth, ignored public cries for more and stopped while they were ahead, limiting it ...
Fawlty Towers: The Play is a comedy play by John Cleese based on his TV sitcom of the same name that he co-wrote with Connie Booth. The play adapted from three episodes of the TV series forming one storyline; "Hotel Inspectors", "The Germans" and "Communication Problems". [1]