• Manuel is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Andrew Sachs. He reappeared for a small sketch with John Cleese in We Are...
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  • Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of...
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  • Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese. The proprietor of the hotel Fawlty Towers, he is a...
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  • as Basil Fawlty, Blazey Best as Sybil Fawlty, Aimee Horne as Polly and Syd Brisbane as Manuel. The play made its UK premiere (as Fawlty Towers: The Play)...
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  • Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. She is played by Prunella Scales. She is listed as 34 years old as seen on her...
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  • Look up Manuel or manuel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Manuel may refer to: Manuel (name), a given name and surname Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional...
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    greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers. Sachs had a long career in acting and voice-over work for television...
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  • third episode of the second series of the British television sitcom Fawlty Towers. Written by John Cleese and Connie Booth and directed by Bob Spiers...
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  • Sherman is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. Played by Connie Booth, she is Fawlty Towers' long-suffering waitress and hotel maid. Polly...
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  • The Germans (category Fawlty Towers episodes)
    sixth episode of the first series of the British television sitcom Fawlty Towers. Written by John Cleese and Connie Booth and directed by John Howard...
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  • football player Simone Manuel (born 1996), American swimmer Vic Manuel (born 1987), Filipino basketball player Manuel (Fawlty Towers), waiter in the BBC...
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    Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay (category Fawlty Towers)
    41-bed establishment, which opened in the 1960s, was the inspiration for Fawlty Towers, a British situation comedy first broadcast in the mid-1970s. John Cleese...
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  • The Hotel Inspectors (category Fawlty Towers episodes)
    fourth episode of the first series of the British television sitcom Fawlty Towers. Written by John Cleese and Connie Booth and directed by John Howard...
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  • Amanda's (category Fawlty Towers)
    American sitcom television series based on the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers that aired on ABC from February 10 to May 26, 1983. The series starred...
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    first wife Connie Booth cowrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers, in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television...
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  • Payne (TV series) (category Fawlty Towers)
    1999 American sitcom adapted from the 1970s British television comedy Fawlty Towers. This adaptation, which was a mid-season replacement on CBS, originally...
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  • Gaiters, The Benny Hill Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goodies, Fawlty Towers, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Only...
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  • degree. This link is included on the Region 2 DVD boxset of Fawlty Towers. Basil's waiter Manuel, played by Andrew Sachs, also appeared at the end of the...
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  • show when he turned down an offer to write a spin-off sitcom for Manuel of Fawlty Towers. Geoffrey Palmer as Major Harry Truscott Michael Robbins as Sgt...
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  • 2022). "Why 'Fawlty Towers' Is Still Comedy Gold After All These Years". Collider. Collider.com. Retrieved 23 December 2022. "Fawlty Towers". Britannica...
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  • became known as Sachsgate or Manuelgate (a reference to Sachs' Fawlty Towers character Manuel). Brand and Ross were criticised by a number of MPs, including...
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  • however, Fawlty Towers featured the mistreatment of the Spanish waiter, Manuel, but the target was the bigotry of the lead character, Basil Fawlty. The Young...
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  • edition of The Grimleys. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers as Irish cowboy builder Lurphy (whom Manuel memorably called a "hideous orangutan"), and as...
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  • portrayal of Dougal, O'Hanlon turned to Laurel and Hardy and Fawlty Towers's bumbling waiter Manuel. O'Hanlon also drew inspiration from his child sister, as...
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    artists as diverse as Lou Monte, Sheila (France), Andrew Sachs (Manuel, of Fawlty Towers), actor Samuel L. Jackson and hip-hop legend KRS-One. In 2018,...
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    Yu 2022 film, Triangle of Sadness Basil Fawlty refers to Manuel as "the admirable Crichton" in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Germans". Crichton formed...
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    Barcelona", named as an homage to the Spanish waiter Manuel, a character on BBC Television's Fawlty Towers ("He’s from Barcelona"). Their debut full-length...
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  • KRS-One (hip-hop), EMF (British), Andrew Sachs (Manuel in the British television sitcom Fawlty Towers), Werner Böhm, alias: Gottlieb Wendehals (German...
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    "Fawlty Towers: The Germans episode to be reinstated by UKTV". BBC News. June 13, 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2020. "UKTV to reinstate Fawlty Towers episode...
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  • by Shorty from the Famous Studios era of Popeye the Sailor and Manuel from Fawlty Towers, borrowing some inspiration from Encino Man. The theme song is...
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