{"id":108295,"date":"2025-10-28T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:31:07","slug":"fawlty-towers-actress-prunella-scales-dies-aged-93-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108295\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has died aged 93, her family have confirmed.<\/p>\n

Scales was best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.<\/p>\n

The actress died “peacefully at home in London yesterday”, her sons Samuel and Joseph said.<\/p>\n

They added that she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died. She had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013.<\/p>\n

“Our darling mother Prunella Scales died peacefully at home in London yesterday. She was 93,” her sons told the PA News agency. <\/p>\n

“Although dementia forced her retirement from a remarkable acting career of nearly 70 years, she continued to live at home.”<\/p>\n

Her husband, fellow actor Timothy West, died in November last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She is survived by two sons and one stepdaughter, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

The statement added: “We would like to thank all those who gave Pru such wonderful care at the end of her life: her last days were comfortable, contented and surrounded by love.”<\/p>\n

This year marked 50 years since the classic comedy Fawlty Towers first appeared on screens.<\/p>\n

She also went on to receive a Bafta nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett’s 1991 televised play, A Question of Attribution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has died aged 93, her family have confirmed. Scales was best known for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-108295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}