Sounds like a Dick Tracy villainess.
Posted on 10/29/2025 12:50:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has died aged 93, her family have confirmed.
Scales was best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the long-suffering and domineering wife of Basil - played by John Cleese - in the classic British sitcom.
The actress died "peacefully at home in London yesterday", her sons Samuel and Joseph said.
They added that she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died. Cleese paid tribute, describing Scales as "a really wonderful comic actress". He said: "Scene after scene she was absolutely perfect."
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Prunella? Series?
Don’t think Basil and Sybil slept in the same bed from 6 months into their marriage.
Also played Charles Laughton’s youngest daughter in “Hobson’s Choice,” the complete opposite of harridan Sybil.
YES DEAR IM DOING IT DEAR HOW CAN I DO IT IF YOU KEEP YELLING AT ME
In one of the episodes, they were in the same hospital room.
I remember watching Fawlty Towers as a kid and laughing my butt off...
The brits make some good comedy shows.
Little Britain, The IT Crowd, and Miranda are all great examples, not to mention Mr Bean
RIP
Fawlty Towers a funny program English comedy is much better than ours less smut for a laugh.
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).
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.
Maybe it’s a family name.
Basil! Basil! Basil!
Her laugh was a tad annoying, but that fit the character perfectly. RIP
The brits make some good comedy shows.
Also, one of the best comedy movies of all time is “Hot Fuzz”, every scene had something to make me laugh.
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