# Gilly Flower

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.
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.
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. 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.
Flower retired from acting in 1991.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1932 | The New Hotel | | |
| 1968 | Work Is a Four-Letter Word | Auntie Winnie | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | Six More Faces of Jim | | 2 episodes |
| 1965 | The Wednesday Play | The Unconfident | Episode: "The Confidence Course" |
| 1965–1966 | Crossroads King's Oak | Mrs. Templeton | 4 episodes |
| 1966 | Seven Deadly Sins | Group B Member (uncredited) | Episode: "The Erpingham Camp" |
| 1968 | Beggar My Neighbour | Civil Defence volunteer | Episode: "Whiter Shade of Yellow" |
| 1968 | The Root of All Evil? | Party guest | Episode: "Money for Change" |
| 1969 | Wink to Me Only | 1st Woman | Episode: "The Vacuum Affair" |
| 1969 | Not in Front of the Children | Housekeeper | Episode: "Stand on Ceremony" |
| 1970 | Morning Story | Mrs. Johnson | Television film |
| 1970 | The Culture Vultures | Secretary | Episode: #1.1 |
| 1971 | Doomwatch | Woman (uncredited) | 2 episodes |
| 1971 | Comedy Playhouse | Miss Travers | Episode: "The Importance of Being Hairy" |
| 1971 | Bachelor Father | Housewife | Episode: "Economy Class" |
| 1972 | Emma | | Mini Series |
| 1972 | My Wife Next Door | The Maid | Episode: "Joint Assignment" |
| 1972 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Woman at Courtroom (uncredited) | Episode: "A Special Mischief" |
| 1973 | Softly, Softly: Task Force | Landlady (uncredited) | Episode: "Time-Table" |
| 1973 | Z Cars | Customer (uncredited) | Episode: "Skin Game" |
| 1973 | Pardon My Genie | Cousin Edna (uncredited) | Episode: "Commercial Success" |
| 1973 | Oh, Father! | Draper's Assistant | Episode: "A Little Law" |
| 1970–1974 | Play for Today | Mary (The Maid) Non-speaking extra | 2 episodes |
| 1973–1974 | Thriller | Miss Cardiff Pub guest | 2 episodes |
| 1974 | Happy Ever After | Hotel guest | Episode: "The Hotel" |
| 1972–1974 | Steptoe and Son | Alice Mrs. Sheldon | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | Second Time Around | Marjorie | Episode: "Father to Be (or Not to Be) |
| 1975 | My Honourable Mrs | Miss Birdwood | Episode: "While the Cat's Away" |
| 1975 | The Growing Pains of P.C. Penrose | Lady Magistrate | Episode: "Among Those Appearing" |
| 1975 | The Dick Emery Show | | Episode: #14.11 |
| 1974–1975 | Within These Walls | Woman (uncredited) | 2 episodes |
| 1977 | Beryl's Lot | Mrs. Norris | 4 episodes |
| 1977 | General Hospital | Woman patient | Episode: "Sons and Daughters" |
| 1977 | Ripping Yarns | Jehovah's Witnesses | Episode: "Murder at Moorstones Manor" |
| 1977 | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin | The woman with fur | Episode: "The Unusual Shop" |
| 1978 | Angels | Mrs. Black | Episode: "The Visitor" |
| 1975–1979 | Fawlty Towers | Miss Agatha Tibbs | 12 episodes |
| 1980 | Heartland | Mrs. Barnes | Episode: "Last Knockings" |
| 1980 | How's Your Father? | Old Lady | Episode: "Fantasy Time" |
| 1971–1980 | The Two Ronnies | Mrs. B Woman | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Blood Money | Molly Irons | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | Terry and June | Mrs. Good | Episode: "The Auction" |
| 1980–1983 | Potter | Lady Motorist Lily | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | Juliet Bravo | Old Lady | Episode: "Doors" |
| 1983 | Only Fools and Horses | First old lady | Episode: "Homesick" |
| 1984 | The Fainthearted Feminist | Woman in supermarket | Episode: #1.2 |
| 1984 | That's My Boy | Lady White | Episode: "Unfair Dismissal" |
| 1984 | Ever Decreasing Circles | Old Lady | Episode: "The Tea Party" |
| 1985 | Relative Strangers | Customer | Episode: #1.9 |
| 1986 | Lenny Henry Tonite | | Episode: "Pratt Outta Hell" |
| 1985–1987 | The Mistress | Customer Elderly woman Lady in shop | 3 episodes |
| 1987 | Hello Mum | | Episode: #1.2 |