British Actress Prunella Scales of ‘Fawlty Towers’ Dies at 93

The stage and screen mainstay died peacefully at her home in London on Oct. 27.
British Actress Prunella Scales of ‘Fawlty Towers’ Dies at 93
Timothy West and Prunella Scales leave Lamb House in Rye, East Sussex, England, on May 16, 2024. Gareth Fuller/PA via AP
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Prunella Scales, the British actress best known for playing Sybil Fawlty, the domineering wife of John Cleese’s character, Basil Fawlty, in the BBC sitcom “Fawlty Towers,” has died at the age of 93.

Scales died peacefully at her home in London on Oct. 27, her two sons, Samuel and Joseph West, confirmed in an online statement.