“I never really felt ready to go on Fawlty Towers,” Prunella Scales said way back in 1995. “Do you think I’m still lumbered with that show?”
Another 30 years have passed and, yes, it does seem that Scales, who has died in London at the age of 93, was doomed to be “lumbered” with a situation comedy that first emerged when Harold Wilson was the British prime minister.
This is not to suggest the obituarists have little else to celebrate. Her distinguished theatre career began as long ago as 1951 when she took a job as stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic (a common first step for hopeful actors).
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