"Scales' career included early roles in a 1952 television version of Pride and Prejudice and the 1954 film comedy Hobson's Choice, followed by her TV breakthrough starring opposite Richard Briers in Marriage Lines, a popular 1960s sitcom about a newlywed couple. In Fawlty Towers she played the exasperated wife of hapless Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, whose efforts to run a seaside hotel inevitably escalated into chaos."
"Scales also starred as the small-town social powerhouse Elizabeth Mapp in Mapp & Lucia, a 1985 TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's 1930s series of comic novels. Later roles included Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution, Alan Bennett's stage and TV drama about the queen's art adviser, Anthony Blunt, who was also a Soviet spy. Scales played another British monarch in the one-woman stage show An Evening with Queen Victoria."
"Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died, her children said. She was 93 and had lived with dementia for many years. Scales' sons, Samuel and Joseph West, said she died peacefully at home in London on Monday. Although dementia forced her retirement from a remarkable acting career of nearly 70 years, she continued to live at home, her sons said. She was watching Fawlty Towers' the day before she died."
Prunella Scales died at 93 after living with dementia for many years and passed away peacefully at home in London. Her sons Samuel and Joseph West reported that she continued to live at home and was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died. Scales enjoyed a nearly 70-year acting career with early roles in a 1952 television Pride and Prejudice and the 1954 film Hobson's Choice, a TV breakthrough in Marriage Lines, and enduring fame as Sybil Fawlty opposite John Cleese. Her work also included Mapp & Lucia, portrayals of British monarchs, and varied stage roles from Shakespeare to Eugene O'Neill.
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