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Gilly Flower | |
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![]() 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.