"Germans"". Booth, who had not done television acting in front of an audience before, wanted to keep Polly as a relatively minor character. According to Cleese, they realised Polly would be a ""beacon of sanity"", whose sense of ""instinctive decency"" leads her to save Basil from his foibles. He credits Booth's performance in a scene of ""The Anniversary"", where she argues with Basil over his plan for Polly to impersonate Sybil in order to save his embarrassment, as ""marvellous"". Polly Sherman Polly Sherman is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Played by Connie Booth, she is Fawlty"
"Creatures"". Booth and Cleese divorced in 1978. With Cleese, Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both series of ""Fawlty Towers"", even though the two were actually divorced before the second series was finished and aired. Booth's daughter Cynthia married screenwriter Ed Solomon in 1992. Booth married John Lahr, author and former senior drama critic of ""The New Yorker"", in 2000. They live in north London. Connie Booth Constance Booth (born 1941 or 1944) is an American-born writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including her role as"
"Fawlty Towers Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Just two series of six episodes were made. The show was created and written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who also starred in the show and were married at the time of the first series, but divorced before recording the second series. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay on"
"Lawday played the title role for Oxford University Press. The Leeds-born actress Wendy van der Plank took over when the series was picked up by ITV between 1993 and 1996. From 1997, Lizzie McPhee took over the role, as Wendy was away on maternity leave. Wendy came back for the last set of episodes from 18 December 1997 up to the end of the show's run. A pilot show starred ""Fawlty Towers"" writer and actress Connie Booth, who had been alerted to the character by John Cleese who had taken an interest in the production. The pilot was never broadcast."
"Sybil Fawlty Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode ""The Germans"", thus presumably indicating that she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when ""Fawlty Towers"" began. She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by his first name (Major Gowen addresses Basil by his first name in ""Communication Problems""). Sybil is a far more effective worker and manager"
"funny, but I couldn't do it at the time. Making 'Fawlty Towers' work at 90 minutes was a very difficult proposition. You can build up the comedy for 30 minutes, but at that length there has to be a trough and another peak. It doesn't interest me. I don't want to do it. Cleese also may have relented because of the lack of Connie Booth's involvement. She had practically retreated from public life after the show finished (and had been initially unwilling to collaborate on a second series, which explains the four-year gap between productions). The decision by Cleese and"
"the PSAs plus locally organised anti-tobacco campaigning. The study found that smokers in regions where the PSAs were broadcast were about half again as likely to have quit at the 18-month follow-up point as those who did not see them, irrespective of the local anti-tobacco campaign. Cleese met Connie Booth in the US and they married in 1968. In 1971, Booth gave birth to Cynthia Cleese, their only child. With Booth, Cleese wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both series of ""Fawlty Towers"", even though the two were actually divorced before the second series was finished and aired. Cleese"
"character of Sybil was used by special permission of John Cleese. Sybil Fawlty Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode ""The Germans"", thus presumably indicating that she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when ""Fawlty Towers"" began. She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by his first name (Major Gowen addresses Basil by his first name in"
"Lorna Gray Lorna Gray (July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017) was an American film actress known for her comic roles, and later as a villainess. She is best known for her roles in Columbia Pictures comedy shorts and Republic Pictures serials. She was known as Adrian Booth since 1945. Gray was born Virginia Pound in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After her father's millinery business was a victim of the Great Depression, the family split up. Before appearing in films, Gray sang with a group in Cleveland called Ben Yost's Varsity Coeds, who performed primarily in movie theaters before the movie"
"school, and then Cambridge-educated Cleese and the working class, self-educated Mancunian Dawson) were marked, but both worked well together from series 8 onwards until the series ended in 1976. Cleese achieved greater prominence in the United Kingdom as the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in ""Fawlty Towers"", which he co-wrote with his wife Connie Booth. The series won three BAFTA awards when produced and in 2000, it topped the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. The series also featured Prunella Scales as Basil's acerbic wife Sybil, Andrew Sachs as the much abused Spanish waiter Manuel"
"Despite her successful entry into films, she preferred acting on the stage, and made only four more films. From 1961-66, she played the title role in the sitcom ""Hazel"", for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards. She was later acclaimed for her performance in the 1966 television production of ""The Glass Menagerie"". Her final role was Mrs. Claus in the 1974 animated Christmas television special ""The Year Without a Santa Claus"". Booth was born in New York City to Albert James and Virginia M. (née Wright) Ford. In the 1905 New York state census, she was listed as Thelma"
"names are reminiscent of Sonny Corinthos). Kate Howard Kate Howard (also Connie Falconeri) is a fictional character from the ABC Daytime soap opera ""General Hospital"". The character was originated by actress Megan Ward, who portrayed the role from May 2007 to October 2010. In September 2011, the role was re-introduced with actress Kelly Sullivan, who has portrayed the role since. Connie is known for having two distinct alternate personalities – Connie, who later changed her name to Kate Howard, who established her career and what the character was initially introduced as and an alternate personality also named Connie, who was"
"She appeared as a guest at the annual Three Stooges convention held in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, on April 30, 2011. Gray died in Sherman Oaks, California on April 30, 2017, three months shy of her 100th birthday. Lorna Gray Lorna Gray (July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017) was an American film actress known for her comic roles, and later as a villainess. She is best known for her roles in Columbia Pictures comedy shorts and Republic Pictures serials. She was known as Adrian Booth since 1945. Gray was born Virginia Pound in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After her father's millinery"
"the revised ""Love Never Dies"" and the new ""King Kong"" were also premiered. Cleese also noted he did not believe the London press would give the adaptation fair, unbiased reviews, so he deliberately choose to premier it elsewhere. In 2009, Tiger Aspect Productions produced a two-part documentary for the digital comedy channel Gold, called ""Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened."" The documentary features interviews with all four main cast members, including Connie Booth, who had refused to talk about the series for 30 years. John Cleese confirmed at the 30-year reunion in May 2009 that they will never make another episode of the"
"Lindy Booth Lindy Booth (born April 2, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She played Riley Grant on the Disney Channel series ""The Famous Jett Jackson"" (and Agent Hawk in the show-within-a-show ""Silverstone"") and Claudia on ""Relic Hunter"" and A.J. Butterfield on the NBC series ""The Philanthropist"". She then played Cassandra Cillian on the TNT series ""The Librarians"" (2014–18). Booth was born in Oakville, Ontario on April 2, 1979. In 2001, Booth starred in the Canadian ensemble drama ""Century Hotel"", and in 2002 she co-starred in the Canadian comedy film ""Rub & Tug"". Booth starred as Dodger Allen in the 2005"
"inherited from him a New York City brownstone apartment building in Manhattan's East 30s as its landlord. Other tenants in the building are Sandy Baron as comedian Chuck Hookstratten, Jack (Michael Constantine) who was a photographer, glamorous Theresa (Pamela Rodgers) and her roommate and best friend Kyoto (Miko Mayama), who frequently yells, ""Hey, Landlord!"" thus giving the show its title. Other co-stars are Ann Morgan Guilbert, and Kathryn Minner, who at the time specialized in playing little old ladies. Sally Field later appeared in four episodes as Woody's visiting sister Bonnie. Plots from a few episodes of the show were"
"Kate Williams (actress) Kate Williams (born 1941 in London, England, UK) is an English actress from London who trained at London's East 15 Acting School. She remains best known for three television roles: Joan Booth in the 1970s sitcom ""Love Thy Neighbour""; Teresa in the 1971 BBC play ""Edna, the Inebriate Woman""; and Audrey Withey in the crime drama ""Widows"" (1983). She reprised the role of Audrey in both ""Widows 2"" (1985), and in the ""ten years later"" sequel ""She's Out"" (1995). Kate Williams and Ann Mitchell, as Dolly Rawlins, were the only members of the original ""Widows"" cast to"
"Gilly Flower Gilly Flower (26 August 1908 – 17 February 2001) was an English actress and model, best remembered as the elderly Miss Abitha Tibbs in the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Gilly Flower played Miss Tibbs in all twelve episodes of the show, which was produced in two six-episode series separated by a three-and-a-half-year interval (September–October 1975 and February–March 1979, apart from the twelfth episode which was not shown until October 1979). A native of London, Gilly Flower had her first film role in 1932 and, with the advent of television in Britain, she found a new outlet for her"
"Evangeline Lilly Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress who came to prominence for her starring role as Kate Austen in the ABC series ""Lost"" (2004–10), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award and received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She is also known for her roles as Connie James in ""The Hurt Locker"" (2008), Bailey Tallet in ""Real Steel"" (2011), and Tauriel in ""The Hobbit"" film series (2012–14). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she starred as the superhero Hope van Dyne / Wasp in the films ""Ant-Man"" (2015) and ""Ant-Man and the Wasp"""
"two boys and has a younger brother Jared (Brendan Fehr). Their father ""flew Thuds and Phantoms in Vietnam"" and moved to Philadelphia where he worked as a barber and eventually started a family. After his death, Booth found a Purple Heart medal among his possessions, indicating he was likely shot down and injured at some point during the war. Their mother Marianne (Joanna Cassidy) was a dancer and composed jingles for television advertisements. Booth is a (fictional) member of the Anglo-American Booth family, best known for producing generations of actors, as well as John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham"
"Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby Miss Abitha Tibbs and Miss Ursula Gatsby are fictional characters, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts respectively, in the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby are two mostly inseparable and slightly scatty elderly spinsters who are permanent residents of Fawlty Towers (the only other long-term guest being Major Gowen). Basil Fawlty switches from being overly kind to being utterly rude during his various conversations with them, although they rarely understand his sarcasm. They are depicted as being ""on the edge of their eighties"". The two ladies appear in every episode"
"she looks down on as uncivilized and ignorant, despite still considering them her best friends. Connie has been pushed by her father to become a child prodigy and excels at a variety of things from academics to music, though she rejects her father's materialism and judgmental nature. She develops a relationship with Bobby that blossoms into romance over the first half of the series before the two decide to remain friends. Connie often accompanies Bobby and Joseph on their misadventures as a neglected voice of reason. Other minor characters include Buck Strickland (voiced by Stephen Root), Hank's licentious boss at"
"that she wanted to pursue her dreams of having a career, something she could not do had she run away with Sonny. The character was introduced on-air on May 8, 2007. Kate walks into Sonny's office unannounced and demands the use of a phone because her car had broken down. Sonny eventually recognizes her as Connie Falconeri, his former love from Bensonhurst. Diane Miller (Carolyn Hennesy), Sonny's lawyer, later mentions Kate is considered one of the ""100 Most Powerful Women in America."" Kate purchases a mansion next door to Sonny. Soon after, Kate is suffering from a headache and mistakenly"
"in horror after stumbling across the body in the hotel office. In that episode it is revealed that Tibbs is 79. Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby Miss Abitha Tibbs and Miss Ursula Gatsby are fictional characters, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts respectively, in the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby are two mostly inseparable and slightly scatty elderly spinsters who are permanent residents of Fawlty Towers (the only other long-term guest being Major Gowen). Basil Fawlty switches from being overly kind to being utterly rude during his various conversations with them, although they rarely"
"1940s, she achieved popularity in dramas, comedies and, later, musicals. She acted with Katharine Hepburn in ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1939), originated the role of Ruth Sherwood in the 1940 Broadway production of ""My Sister Eileen"" and performed with Ralph Bellamy in ""Tomorrow the World"" (1943). Booth also starred on the popular radio series ""Duffy's Tavern"", playing the lighthearted, wisecracking, man-crazy daughter of the unseen tavern owner on CBS radio from 1941 to 1942 and on NBC Blue from 1942 to 1943. Her then-husband, Ed Gardner, created and wrote the show as well as playing its lead character, Archie, the malapropping"
"as Katie Connor, David's sister and the key witness in the Frobisher case (at the end of the first season Bean and Ivanek leave the main cast with the death of their characters, but still serve as occasional guest stars with their characters appearing in flashbacks). Notable recurring characters during the first season were played by Peter Facinelli, Philip Bosco, and Peter Riegert. The second season found Patty and her firm inadvertently thrown into a massive case against the billion dollar-worth energy corporation Ultima National Resources (UNR). William Hurt played Daniel Purcell, a mysterious man from Patty's past who initiates"
"his wife, Connie Booth. Cleese described Sinclair as ""the most marvellously rude man I've ever met"" and based his Basil Fawlty character on him when he and Booth created ""Fawlty Towers"" five years later. Sinclair sold the Gleneagles in 1973. For the rest of its existence the hotel retained a reminder of Sinclair's legacy: the 41 rooms all had names such as Coral or Mimosa. This was introduced in the Sinclair era of Gleneagles. In August 2003, developers submitted plans to demolish the hotel and build a block of flats on the site, claiming the building was ""unattractive with little"
"became known as Basil Fawlty was developed in an episode (""No Ill Feeling"") of the third ""Doctor"" series (titled ""Doctor at Large""). In this edition, the main character checks into a small-town hotel, his very presence seemingly winding up the aggressive and incompetent manager (played by Timothy Bateson) with a domineering wife. The show was broadcast on 30 May 1971. Cleese said in 2008 that the first ""Fawlty Towers"" script he and Booth wrote was rejected by the BBC. At a 30th anniversary event honouring the show, Cleese said, Cleese was paid £6,000 for 43 weeks' work and supplemented his"
"Natalie Cohen Natalie Cohen (born December 5, 1985) is an American actress and model."" Cohen was born on December 5, 1985 in Los Angeles, California. She first appeared on the big screen as the Stewardess in the end credits for the action comedy film Tropic Thunder, opposite Matthew McConaughey. Cohen has made several minor on-screen appearances in such films as: Ocean's Thirteen, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Hangover, The Chosen One, Date Night, and Small Apartments. In 2009, Cohen portrayed Tiffany in the first episode of the FX comedy series ""The League"". In 2010, Cohen played the role of Penelope"
"Basil Fawlty Basil Fawlty is the main character of the British sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"", played by John Cleese. Basil has become an iconic British comedy character that is widely recognised around the world, despite only 12 half-hour episodes ever having been made. Basil, who runs the titular hotel in Torquay, is a misanthropic, pessimistic and somewhat snobbish man, whose main aspiration is to become a member of more ""respectable"" (richer) social circles. He sees the successful running of the hotel as a means of achieving this dream, yet his job frequently requires him to be pleasant to people he despises"
"Bridget Turner Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress, born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. On 8 May 2009 John Cleese stated in an interview that Turner was the original choice in 1974 for the role of Sybil Fawlty in ""Fawlty Towers"". She turned it down and the part was given to Prunella Scales. She played a radical English teacher, Judy Threadgold, opposite Alun Armstrong’s woodwork teacher in Alan Plater’s ""Get Lost!"" for Yorkshire Television, shown in 1981. Armstrong was unavailable for a sequel, so it was completely recast and became ""The Beiderbecke Affair"" with"
"Shirley Booth, who won for ""Come Back, Little Sheba"" (1952). Later versions of McCuller's play were done for television, with Claudia McNeil playing Berenice in 1958, then Pearl Bailey performing the part in 1982. Feeling rejected when her older brother goes off on his honeymoon without inviting her along, Frankie (Julie Harris) runs away from her middle-class Southern home. She endures several other adolescent traumas, not least of which is the sudden death of her bespectacled young cousin John Henry (Brandon De Wilde). With the help of warm-hearted housekeeper Berenice Sadie Brown (Ethel Waters), Frankie eventually makes an awkward transition"
"she made her first movie, although she had successfully shaved almost a decade off her real age, with her publicity stating 1907 as the year of her birth. Her correct year of birth was known by only her closest associates until her correct year of birth, 1898, was announced at the time of her death. Her second starring film, a romantic drama ""About Mrs. Leslie"" opposite Robert Ryan, was released in 1954 to good reviews but was poorly received by audiences. In 1953, Booth had made a cameo appearance as herself in the all-star comedy/drama movie ""Main Street to Broadway""."