Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has d!ed aged 93, her family have confirmed
Scales was best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the long-suffering and domineering wife of Basil – played by John Cleese – in the classic British sitcom.
The actress d!ed “peacefully at home in London yesterday”, her sons Samuel and Joseph said.
They added that she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died. Cleese paid tribute, describing Scales as “a really wonderful comic actress”. He said: “Scene after scene she was absolutely perfect.”
Cleese’s Fawlty Towers co-writer Connie Booth, who played waitress Polly on the show, also saluted the late star.
“As Sybil she became a kind of national figure,” Booth said in a statement.
“She was a wonderfully versatile character actress and the look she devised for Sybil – the overblown bouffant hairdo, the nails and the swooping voice were all her creation.
“She was tiny – those high heels, the perfect little figure. The size of her contrast to John couldn’t have worked better as a stage picture. Even though she was diminutive, she had a real power.”
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RIP
93 no be beans