Fawlty Towers Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets

27^th November 2015

Fact: The hotel that inspired John Cleese's beloved British sitcom FAWLTY TOWERS will be demolished to make way for a retirement home. Cleese based his fictional guest house on the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England after staying there in 1973.

23^rd September 2010

Quote: "I always felt attracted by Austrian and German culture in a way. I never saw so much theatre and music and so many museums anywhere else." Veteran British actor John Cleese, whose character Basil Fawlty once poked fun at Germans on TV sitcom FAWLTY TOWERS, reveals he's a fan of the country.

17^th September 2010

Fact: The woman who inspired iconic character SYBIL FAWLTY in 1970s British sitcom FAWLTY TOWERS has died, aged 95. Beatrice Sinclair, whose husband Donald inspired John Cleese's manic hotelier Basil Fawlty in the comedy, passed away on Monday (13Sep10).

13^th January 2010

Quote: "I watch too much FAWLTY TOWERS." Rocker Meat Loaf is a huge fan of the classic British TV comedy.

5^th January 2009

Fact: FAWLTY TOWERS actor ANDREW SACHS is to join the cast of long-running British TV soap Coronation Street later this year (09).

9^th August 2006

Fact: FAWLTY TOWERS actress Prunella Scales is to return to the cult British comedy's location later this month (AUG06) to relaunch the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England. Scales starred alongside John Cleese in the seminal show as hotelier BASIL FAWLTY's wife SYBIL.