Robbery (1960), as well as the Rank comedy In the Doghouse (1961). In 1962 Booth spent a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in King Lear alongside Paul Scofield for Peter Brook. He also played in The Caretaker. Film stardom Booth's first lead role came in Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) directed by Littlewood. He then made Zulu (1964), the film for which he is best remembered; he was billed above Michael Caine. Joseph E. Levine put him under contract. Booth did Stray Cats and Empty Bottles (1964) for TV and played the lead in a comedy, French Dressing (1964), the feature debut of Ken Russell. It was a box office disappointment. Booth was in Herb Gardner's play, A Thousand Clowns in London 1964. He starred in 90 Degrees in the Shade (1964), a thriller, and the comedy, The Secret of My Success (1965). Neither movie was popular. A proposed film with Peter Sellers, Barbu, never eventuated. Booth starred as Robin Hood in the stage musical Twang! (1965), which was a troubled production (Littlewood resigned as director) and a notorious flop. Booth later claimed the failure of the musical put him out of work for a year. Booth was a policeman in a heist movie, Robbery (1967), for Levine, alongside his Zulu co-star Stanley Baker. He did a comedy with Shirley MacLaine, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) then Fräulein Doktor (1969) and The Vessel of Wrath (1970) for TV. Booth went to Australia to make Adam's Woman (1970) and played Rod Taylor's best friend in The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970). He worked with Taylor again in Darker Than Amber (1970). In 1970 he did "The Alchemist" at the Chichester Festival and had a support role in Macho Callahan (1970), then the lead in Revenge (1971). In 1972, he appeared on stage in The Hostage for Joan Littlewood again. Booth returned to leads in the films Rentadick (1972) and Penny Gold (1973) and TV comedy Them (1972). Booth could be seen in That'll Be the Day (1974), Percy's Progress (1974), The Confederacy of Wives (1975), Brannigan (1975), and I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976). Hollywood Booth appeared on Broadway in 1975 in a production of Travesties. He then relocated to Hollywood and found work as a character actor in films like Airport '77 (1977), Murder in Peyton Place (1977), Wheels (1978), Evening in Byzantium (1978), Jennifer: