Prunella Scales, greatest identified to TV audiences for her flip as lodge supervisor Sybil Fawlty on the BBC traditional “Fawlty Towers,” died Monday on the age of 93.
Although a selected reason for dying has not been disclosed, Scales had been identified with vascular dementia in 2013.
“Our darling mom Prunella Scales died peacefully at house in London yesterday,” her sons Samuel and Joseph mentioned in an announcement to the PA Information company. “Though dementia compelled her retirement from a outstanding performing profession of practically 70 years, she continued to dwell at house and was watching ‘Fawlty Towers’ the day earlier than she died…. We want to thank all those that gave Pru such fantastic care on the finish of her life. Her final days had been snug, contented and surrounded by love.”
Early profession credit included the Nineteen Sixties sitcom “The Marriage Strains” and the anthology sequence “Seven of One.” However Scales was most related along with her function as Sybil, the long-suffering spouse of John Cleese’s Basil, on “Fawlty Towers,” which ran for 2 seasons (12 episodes) between 1975 and 1979. She later portrayed Queen Elizabeth II within the 1991 TV-movie “A Query of Attribution,” incomes a BAFTA nomination for Greatest Actress.
Scales was married to actor Timothy West for 61 years, till his dying final November. Collectively, they led the primary 10 seasons of the Channel 4 docuseries “Nice Canal Journeys” (2014–2019).
She is survived by her two sons, one stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.