LONDON (Reuters) -British actress Prunella Scales, best known for playing the formidable Sybil Fawlty in comedy show “Fawlty Towers”, has died age 93, her sons said in a statement on Tuesday.

Sybil was the wife of John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty, in the show’s two series made in 1975 and 1979. Set in a dysfunctional hotel in the seaside resort of Torquay, it became one of Britain’s best-known comedies and was shown around the world.

It continues to be broadcast and referenced in popular culture now.

“Our darling mother Prunella Scales died peacefully at home in London yesterday,” her two sons said in a statement.

“She was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.”

Scales was married to actor Timothy West for 61 years. He died last November. She had been suffering from dementia.

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