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Gilly Flower | |
|---|---|
 Flower as Miss Tibbs in Fawlty Towers | |
| Born | Gertrude Adele Jacobs 26 August 1908 London, England |
| Died | 17 February 2001 (aged 92) Surrey, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1932–1991 |
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.[1][2]
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.[3]
A Londoner, Flower had her first film role in 1932 and, with the advent of television in Britain, she found a new outlet for her talents, continuing to appear in such programmes as Z-Cars, Steptoe and Son and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.[2][4] Early in her career, Flower was also a model and seven portrait photographs taken by Bassano, in which she is modelling hats from Kembray, may today be found in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[1]
Flower retired from acting in 1991.
- ^ a b "Gilly Flower – Person – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Gilly Flower". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Fawlty Towers (1975, 79) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ "Gilly Flower". www.aveleyman.com.