Who played the part of Sybil Fawlty?
Sybil Fawlty character of Sybil was used by special permission of John Cleese. Sybil Fawlty Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom "Fawlty Towers". She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode "The Germans", thus presumably indicating that she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when "Fawlty Towers" began. She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by his first name (Major Gowen addresses Basil by his first name in
Sybil Fawlty of brown ale' while drunk, which implies a working-class background, as do some traces of working-class speech in her accent. Basil and Sybil married on 17 April 1964 (although Sybil once joked they were married in 1485) and opened their hotel in 1964. In November 2007, Scales returned to the role of Sybil Fawlty in a series of sketches for the BBC's annual "Children in Need" charity telethon. The character was seen taking over the management of the eponymous hotel from the BBC drama series "Hotel Babylon", interacting with characters from that programme as well as other sitcom characters. The