Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales, who played the role of Sybil Fawlty, the domineering wife of Basil, has died aged 93.
The BBC quoted her sons Samuel and Joseph as saying that the actress died peacefully at her home in London.
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979.
The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon.
The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner, Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth), and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs).
They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.
Prunella Scales’s husband, fellow actor Timothy West, died in November last year.
She is survived by two sons and one stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
