John Cleese has paid tribute to his Fawlty Towers co-star Prunella Scales , who has died aged 93 .

In a short statement issued to press, he described his on-screen wife in the BBC sitcom as “a really wonderful comic actress,” and added: “Scene after scene she was absolutely perfect.”

In Fawlty Towers , Scales played the irascible and long-suffering Sybil Fawlty, who was often angered by the bumbling incompetence of husband and hotel manager Basil, played by Cleese. The two would often butt heads as Basil attempted to keep his latest mishap from her attention.

Cleese wrote the series with co-star and then-wife Connie Booth, who played chambermaid Polly. The show ran for just two seasons between 1975 and 1979, but is still remembered as one of the UK’s greatest ever sitcoms.

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