Biography
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. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy
2025
A documentary exploring the legacy and controversies of “Fawlty Towers,” the iconic British sitcom. While Basil Fawlty’s antics continue to make peopl...
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
2023
as Self
A celebration of John Cleese and Connie Booth's acclaimed sitcom following the misadventures of Torquay hotel owner Basil Fawlty. The programme explor...
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018
This special one-hour documentary reflects on Michael Palin's fascinating career as a BAFTA-winning actor, writer and presenter.
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
2017
as 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'...
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
as Self / Polly Sherman
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
as 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 w...
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performer...
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
2004
as Self (archive footage)
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 mom...
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
2004
as Self (archive footage)
All the best sketches from the third and fourth series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'The Finals of the All-England Summar...
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
2004
as Self (archive footage)
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'; 'N...
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
1999
as Self
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
1999
as Self
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 f...
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
as 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 ...
Smack and Thistle
1991
as Ms Kane
With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one ...
American Friends
1991
as 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-Ame...
The World of Eddie Weary
1990
as 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 s...
High Spirits
1988
as Marge
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunte...
Hawks
1988
as 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...
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as The Lady from Delaware
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Violet Morstan
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
Past Caring
1986
as Linda
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
Rocket to the Moon
1986
as Belle Stark
In 1938 New York City, a dentist finds his business and marriage failing as he embarks on a love affair with a young dental assistant.
Nairobi Affair
1984
as 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 w...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983
as 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 h...
The Deadly Game
1982
as 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,...
The Story of Ruth
1982
as Ruth Baker
The nightmare experience of a young American housewife, confronted by a dark secret from her childhood.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
as Mrs. Errol
Young 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 D...
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980
as 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 myst...
Snavely
1978
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
1977
as 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 ...
The Mermaid Frolics
1977
as 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-sch...
Spaghetti Two-Step
1977
as Sheila
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
1975
as Ginny
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
as The Witch
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin th...
The After Dinner Game
1975
as 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 fro...
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
as 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...
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
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...
Is This a Record?
1973
as Various
John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Jones celebrate the Guinness Book of World Records.
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971
as Best Girl
A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
How to Irritate People
1969
as Various
A pre-Monty Python mockumentary, written by and presented by John Cleese, that provides tips on learning how to irritate people.