Prunella Scales, best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in comedy show Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93. Scales’ career spanned seven decades and she had several roles from the 1950s, before she played the domineering Sybil, wife of John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty, in two series of Fawlty Towers in 1975 and 1979. Scales was married to actor Timothy West for 61 years, who died last November. She had been suffering from dementia
