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Connie Sawyer

Highest Rated: 75% A Hole in the Head (1959)

Lowest Rated: 29% Lovesick (2014)

Birthday: Nov 27, 1912

Birthplace: Pueblo, Colorado, USA

Connie Sawyer's prolific acting career stretches over 50 years and is filled with memorable performances as wisecracking grannies, tough-talking mothers, and no-nonsense neighbors. Sawyer began her long career in the '60s, appearing in minor roles on shows like the medical drama "Dr. Kildare" and films like "Ada," about a strong-willed hooker who marries a weak-willed politician. She portrayed a stern teacher in "A Hole in the Head," about a frivolous widower (Frank Sinatra) who tries to juggle business and pleasure, and was cast as a tough-talking frontier woman in the 1967 epic "The Way West." By the end of the '70s, Sawyer had become a familiar on-screen presence; she guest-starred as a cantankerous mother in the short-lived sitcom "Archie Bunker's Place," a miserly neighbor on "Mary Tyler Moore," and a disgruntled customer on the heavenly comedy "Oh, God!." In 1989, she appeared as a gently chiding wife featured in one of the faux-documentary interviews woven throughout the critically acclaimed romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally...," about one couple's struggle to overcome their innate differences. She next appeared as a thieving, motorized senior citizen in the gross-out Jim Carrey comedy "Dumb & Dumber," about two insipid friends who strike out on an ill-fated cross-country road trip; after that small performance, she managed to continue her streak of notable supporting roles in the neurotic New York sitcom "Seinfeld" and the surprise stoner comedy hit "Pineapple Express."

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Highest rated movies

75% 48% A Hole in the Head
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29% 21% Lovesick
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17% It Came From Outer Space II
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The Last of the Secret Agents?
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40% Far From Home
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39% Blue Desert
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Promised Land
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Five Desperate Women
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83% Nights in White Satin
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The Strangers in 7A
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Filmography

Movies

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29% 21% Lovesick Nana Bebe (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Promised Land Hazel (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 17% It Came From Outer Space II Hughy (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes Motel Clerk (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 39% Blue Desert Elderly Lady 1 (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 40% Far From Home Viney Hunt (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 83% Nights in White Satin Martha (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 56% Fast Break Mom (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 40% The President's Mistress Cleaning Lady (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Strangers in 7A Mrs. Layton (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 77% Evil Roy Slade Aggie Potter (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Five Desperate Women Mrs. Brown (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last of the Secret Agents? Florence (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 50% Ada Alice Sweet (Character) - 1961
75% 48% A Hole in the Head Miss Wexler (Character) - 1959

TV

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72% 85% Ray Donovan Unknown (Guest Star) 2013-2014
95% 85% New Girl Oldest Woman in the World (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 63% NCIS: Los Angeles Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet 63% 2 Broke Girls Elderly Lady (Guest Star) 2012
67% 64% Up All Night Shopper (Character) 2011
81% 89% The Office Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
68% No Score Yet Worst Week Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet 80% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
84% 85% How I Met Your Mother Old Lady (Guest Star) 2007
No Score Yet 82% That '70s Show Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet 88% Will & Grace Old Woman (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet 96% Becker Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet 85% ER Kathy Brennan (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet L.A. Doctors Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet 86% Boy Meets World Foofie (Guest Star) 1998
33% No Score Yet Style & Substance Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet 75% Sliders Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
89% 92% Seinfeld Old Woman (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dave's World Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet 71% Home Improvement Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
15% No Score Yet The Jeff Foxworthy Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nurses Unknown (Guest Star) 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jake and the Fatman Unknown (Guest Star) 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet 227 Unknown (Guest Star) 1985
67% 76% V Old Woman (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Laverne & Shirley Unknown (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barnaby Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1980
66% No Score Yet Archie Bunker's Place Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Welcome Back, Kotter Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco Woman Driver (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Neighbor (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Good Times Personnel Woman (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet 85% All in the Family Unknown (Guest Star) 1971-1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Room 222 Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Beverly Hillbillies Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet 88% The Andy Griffith Show Miss Blanchard (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love on a Rooftop Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Mrs. Ball (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Please Don't Eat the Daisies Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1962