Prunella Scales Dead: 'Fawlty Towers' Actress Was 93

Prunella Scales, who starred with John Cleese as the squabbling married co-owners of a quaint seaside hotel on the beloved British sitcom Fawlty Towers , has died. She was 93.

Scales died “peacefully at home in London yesterday,” her sons Samuel and Joseph said, the Press Association and the BBC reported. She had battled dementia in recent years.

She and late husband Timothy West , a fellow actor whom she married in 1963, hosted the Channel 4 travel series Great Canal Journeys from 2014-17.

Prunella Scales, who starred with John Cleese as the squabbling married co-owners of a quaint seaside hotel on the beloved British sitcom Fawlty Towers , has died. She was 93.

Scales died “peacefully at home in London yesterday,” her sons Samuel and Joseph said, the Press Associat