---
name: "Gilly Flower"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gilly-flower"
fi1m_id: "gilly-flower"
imdb_id: "nm0283148"
tmdb_id: 1229861
wikidata_id: "Q2149877"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 August 1908"
died: "17 February 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:33:38.231812+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gilly Flower

## Identity

Gilly Flower

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gilly-flower
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gilly-flower
- **IMDb ID:** nm0283148
- **TMDB ID:** 1229861
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2149877
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilly_Flower, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149877, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0283148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229861

Actor. Born 26 August 1908 in Hendon, London, England, UK. Died 17 February 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 August 1908, Hendon, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 17 February 2001
- **Also known as:** Gertrude Adele Jacobs
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilly_Flower, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149877, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0283148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229861

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Fawlty Towers*](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md) (90)

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## Biography

Gilly Flower (born Gertrude Adele Jacobs) was an English actress. She is best known for playing the elderly resident Miss Abitha Tibbs in all twelve episodes of the BBC sitcom *Fawlty Towers* (1975–1979).

A Londoner, she began her career with a film role in *The New Hotel* (1932) and later appeared in television series including *Only Fools and Horses* (1983), *Z-Cars*, *Steptoe and Son* and *The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin*. She retired from acting in 1991 and died in Surrey in 2001.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fawlty Towers* (1975), Fi1m 90, as Miss Tibbs — [page](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Funny Blokes of British Comedy* (2005), as Miss Agatha Tibbs (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *The Fainthearted Feminist* (1984), series, as Woman in Supermarket
- *That's My Boy* (1981), series, as Lady White
- *Terry and June* (1979), series, as Mrs. Good
- *Fawlty Towers* (1975), series, as Miss Tibbs — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md)
- *The Growing Pains of PC Penrose* (1975), series, as Lady Magistrate
- *My Honourable Mrs* (1975), series, as Miss Birdwell
- *Happy Ever After* (1974), series, as Hotel Guest
- *K Is for Killing* (1974), as Miss Cardiff
- *Oh, Father!* (1973), series, as Draper's Assistant
- *Thriller* (1973), series, as Miss Cardiff
- *Someone at the Top of the Stairs* (1973), as Pub Guest (uncredited)
- *My Wife Next Door* (1972), series, Actor
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, as Non-speaking extra (uncredited)
- *Work Is a 4-Letter Word* (1968), as Auntie Winnie
- *Not in Front of the Children* (1967), series, as Housekeeper
- *Steptoe and Son* (1962), series, as Dance Partner (uncredited), Alice, Mrs. Sheldon — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/steptoe-and-son.md)
- *Faces of Jim* (1961), series, Actor
- *The New Hotel* (1932), Actor

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