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FILE - British actress Prunella Scales poses for the photographers, prior to the premiere of the new film "Keeping Mum" at a Leicester Square cinema in central London, on Nov. 28, 2005. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

LONDON – Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British sitcom “Fawlty Towers,” has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93 and had dementia.

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.”

Scales’ career included earl

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