Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies, aged 93

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[dfwgator]

Funny lady. RIP.

[tumblindice]

Prunella? Series?

[libh8er]

Don’t think Basil and Sybil slept in the same bed from 6 months into their marriage.

[decal]

Also played Charles Laughton’s youngest daughter in “Hobson’s Choice,” the complete opposite of harridan Sybil.

[struggle]

YES DEAR IM DOING IT DEAR HOW CAN I DO IT IF YOU KEEP YELLING AT ME

[ComputerGuy]

In one of the episodes, they were in the same hospital room.

[Dr. Sivana]

Prunella? Series?

Sounds like a Dick Tracy villainess.

[God luvs America]

I remember watching Fawlty Towers as a kid and laughing my butt off...

[algore]

The brits make some good comedy shows.

Little Britain, The IT Crowd, and Miranda are all great examples, not to mention Mr Bean

[llevrok]

she was a great foil to Cleese’s Basil character.

[gundog]

Yup. PBS, late at night.

RIP

[Vaduz]

Fawlty Towers a funny program English comedy is much better than ours less smut for a laugh.

[Mozzafiato]

Fawlty Towers is on Mt Rushmore of comedy sitcoms. I am always surprised to remember it only has 12 episodes, I remember watching it religiously as a kid for a time in the 70s (probably on repeat, lol).

[Leaning Right]

[mass55th]

Her and her husband did a series on British TV traveling the different canals in Britain by canal boat. There were several seasons. In them, Timothy pointed out that Prunella was having some memory problems, even corrected her several times on the episodes. It kind of turned me off. I always figured she'd be the first one to go, especially with her memory issues. That's why I was surprised that he passed away first. He was still acting. Her last role was in 2015.

One of their sons Samuel West has been an actor in his own right for a long time now. He's regularly appeared on "All Creatures Great and Small", and has appeared periodically in Apple's "Slow Horses" with Gary Oldman. It's a great series about MI5 rejects who work in a derelict building called Slough House, based on a book series of the same name. Gary Oldman's character was farmed out to Slough House years before, and he is the boss of people that end up there. Oldman is one of those actors that can play any role, and be great in it. In this one, he's portrayed as a slob, long greasy hair, glasses, wearing the same old dirty trench coat through the past 5 seasons. Although he's looked down upon by the hoity-toity's over at MI5, Slough House always ends up solving their cases for them. It's in its 5th season, renewed for two more.

[dfwgator]

[tumblindice]

Maybe it’s a family name.

[dfwgator]

[NonValueAdded]

Basil! Basil! Basil!

Her laugh was a tad annoying, but that fit the character perfectly. RIP

[dfwgator]

The brits make some good comedy shows.

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Also, one of the best comedy movies of all time is “Hot Fuzz”, every scene had something to make me laugh.