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Basil Fawlty is the main character of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese. Basil has become an iconic British comedy character, despite only twelve half-hour episodes ever being made. ==Personality== Basil, who runs the titular hotel in Torquay, is a misanthropic, paranoid man who is desperate to belong to a higher social class...
Basil Fawlty is London Cockney rhyming slang for balti.