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	\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs		\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs
	\| birth_date = 26 ~~August 1908~~		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1908\|08\|26\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = London, England		\| birth_place = London, England
	\| death_date = 17 ~~February 2001 (aged 92)~~		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|2001\|02\|17\|1908\|08\|26\|df=yes}}
	\| death_place = [[Surrey]], England		\| death_place = [[Surrey]], England
	\| occupation = Actress		\| occupation = Actress

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	\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs		\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs
	\| birth_date = 26 August 1908		\| birth_date = 26 August 1908

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	\| caption = ~~Flower as Miss Tibbs in ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''~~		\| caption =
	\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs		\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs
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	~~{{more footnotes needed\|date=September 2017}}~~
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	\| name = Gilly Flower		\| name = Gilly Flower
	\| image = ~~Actress_Gilly_Flower~~.jpg		\| image = Actress Gilly Flower.jpg
	\| caption = Flower as Miss Tibbs in ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''		\| caption = Flower as Miss Tibbs in ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''
	\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs		\| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs
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{{short description|British actress (1908–2001)}}
{{for|the flower|Gilliflower}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{more footnotes needed|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Gilly Flower
| image = Actress_Gilly_Flower.jpg
| caption = Flower as Miss Tibbs in ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''
| birth_name = Gertrude Adele Jacobs
| birth_date = 26 August 1908
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = 17 February 2001 (aged 92)
| death_place = [[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 Tibbs and Miss Gatsby|Miss Abitha Tibbs]] in the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''.<ref name=npg/><ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba42cc9ed|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009212621/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba42cc9ed|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 2019|title=Gilly Flower|website=BFI}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/459034/credits.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Fawlty Towers (1975, 79) Credits|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref>

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]]''.<ref name=bfi/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=5820|title=Gilly Flower|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref> Early in her career, Flower was also a model and seven portrait photographs taken by [[Alexander Bassano|Bassano]], in which she is modelling hats from Kembray, may today be found in the collection of the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref name=npg>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp83038/gilly-flower|title=Gilly Flower – Person – National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk|accessdate=24 December 2017}}</ref>

Flower retired from acting in 1991.

== Filmography ==

=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
! class="unsortable" |Notes
|-
|1932
|''[[The New Hotel]]''
|
|
|-
|1968
|''[[Work Is a Four-Letter Word]]''
|Auntie Winnie
|
|}

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
! class="unsortable" |Notes
|-
|1962
|''[[Faces of Jim|Six More Faces of Jim]]''
|
|2 episodes
|-
|1965
|''[[The Wednesday Play]]''
|The Unconfident
|Episode: "The Confidence Course"
|-
|1965–1966
|''[[Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads King's Oak]]''
|Mrs. Templeton
|4 episodes
|-
|1966
|''Seven Deadly Sins''
|Group B Member (uncredited)
|Episode: "The Erpingham Camp"
|-
|1968
|''[[Beggar My Neighbour (TV series)|Beggar My Neighbour]]''
|Civil Defence volunteer
|Episode: "Whiter Shade of Yellow"
|-
|1968
|''[[The Root of All Evil? (1968 TV series)|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 (TV series)|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 (British TV series)|Bachelor Father]]''
|Housewife
|Episode: "Economy Class"
|-
|1972
|''Emma''
|
|Mini Series
|-
|1972
|''[[My Wife Next Door]]''
|The Maid
|Episode: "Joint Assignment"
|-
|1972
|''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]''
|Woman at Courtroom (uncredited)
|Episode: "[[A Special Mischief]]"
|-
|1973
|''[[Softly, Softly: Task Force]]''
|Landlady (uncredited)
|Episode: "Time-Table"
|-
|1973
|''[[Z-Cars|Z Cars]]''
|Customer (uncredited)
|Episode: "[[List of Z-Cars episodes#Series 7 (1971–1973)|Skin Game]]"
|-
|1973
|''[[Pardon My Genie]]''
|Cousin Edna (uncredited)
|Episode: "Commercial Success"
|-
|1973
|''[[Oh, Brother!#Sequel series|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 (British TV series)|Thriller]]''
|Miss Cardiff
Pub guest
|2 episodes
|-
|1974
|''[[Happy Ever After (British TV series)|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 (British TV series)|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: "[[List of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin episodes#Series 2: (1977)|The Unusual Shop]]"
|-
|1978
|''[[Angels (TV series)|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 (TV series)|Blood Money]]''
|Molly Irons
|2 episodes
|-
|1982
|''[[Terry and June]]''
|Mrs. Good
|Episode: "[[List of Terry and June episodes#Series Four (early 1982)|The Auction]]"
|-
|1980–1983
|''[[Potter (TV series)|Potter]]''
|Lady Motorist
Lily
|2 episodes
|-
|1983
|''[[Juliet Bravo]]''
|Old Lady
|Episode: "Doors"
|-
|1983
|''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''
|First old lady
|Episode: "[[Homesick (Only Fools and Horses)|Homesick]]"
|-
|1984
|''The Fainthearted Feminist''
|Woman in supermarket
|Episode: #1.2
|-
|1984
|''[[That's My Boy (1981 TV series)|That's My Boy]]''
|Lady White
|Episode: "Unfair Dismissal"
|-
|1984
|''[[Ever Decreasing Circles]]''
|Old Lady
|Episode: "The Tea Party"
|-
|1985
|''[[Relative Strangers (TV series)|Relative Strangers]]''
|Customer
|Episode: #1.9
|-
|1986
|''Lenny Henry Tonite''
|
|Episode: "Pratt Outta Hell"
|-
|1985–1987
|''[[The Mistress (TV series)|The Mistress]]''
|Customer
Elderly woman
Lady in shop
|3 episodes
|-
|1987
|''Hello Mum''
|
|Episode: #1.2
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb name|id=0283148|name=Gilly Flower}}

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[[Category:Actresses from London]]
[[Category:English television actresses]]
[[Category:English film actresses]]
[[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
[[Category:English female models]]
[[Category:Models from London]]

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