Who played Basil Fawlty in 'Fawlty Towers'?
Basil Fawlty the place in a week",the way he'd handle guests' demands. In the next episode, the idea of him running a hotel was seen as him being a Basil Fawlty. In the 2004 film "Shrek 2", John Cleese's character of King Harold references the character by using Fawlty's excuse of "war wound shrapnel" with "Crusade war shrapnel". Basil Fawlty Basil Fawlty is the main character of the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers", played by John Cleese. Basil has become an iconic British comedy character that is widely recognised around the world, despite only 12 half-hour episodes ever having been made. Basil, who
Sybil Fawlty 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 "Communication Problems"). Sybil is a far more effective worker and manager