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Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs dies aged 86 after four-year battle with dementia
Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs dies aged 86 after four-year battle with dementia
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The actor played bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel in the iconic TV show
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Andrew Sachs, the actor famous for his role in the series Fawlty Towers, has died.
He had been suffering vascular dementia for several years and passed away in Denham Hall, a private care home for actors last week.
Sachs was best-known for playing bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel in the iconic BBC comedy series Fawlty Towers, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA.
He is survived by his wife Melody who told the Daily Mail: "My heart has been broken every day for a long time."
John Cleese, who starred as something of a double act with Sachs in Fawlty Towers, tweeted: "A very sweet gentle and kind man and a truly great farceur. I could not have found a better Manuel. Inspired"
Sachs was also a well-known voice on the radio, and narrated several classics including \'The Chronicles of Narnia\'.
In 2009, he returned to TV with a stint on Coronation Street as Ramsay Clegg the long-lost brother of busybody Norris Cole.
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ANDREW PASSED AWAY AFTER A PRIVATE 4 YEAR DEMENTIA BATTLE
Andrew Sachs as Manuel (left) and John Cleese as Basil in the BBC\'s Fawlty Towers
Andrew Sachs arrives at the Best Of British Comedy Lunch at BAFTA in 2005 (Photo: Getty)
It came a year after Sachs was caught up in a row over a prank played on him by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Brand\'s radio show.
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The pair lewd explicit messages on Sachs\' voicemail in which Brand claimed to have had sex with his granddaughter Georgina Baillie.
Brand later resigned and Ross was suspended by the BBC.
The saga became known as \'Sachsgate\' and as recently as 2014, the actor said he had still not fully recovered from the fallout.
"They [Brand and Ross] both sent flowers and apologies in the end that meant nothing.
"They thought they were very funny and very clever. It was horrible," he said.
Listen: Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand\'s prank call to Sachs
Tributes from the world of showbiz have begun pouring in for Sachs.
Actor and TV presenter Tony Robinson tweeted: "So sad that Andrew Sachs has died. A true friend and a kindred spirit. I still have the wonderful baby pictures he took of my children. RIP."
Sachs was born in Berlin but his father was Jewish and the family left Germany in 1938 to escape the Nazis.
They settled in North London where he lived for the rest of his life.
Sachs started in radio and appeared in TV shows throughout the 1960s, but it was his breakout role as Manuel for which he will be remembered.
Between 1975 to 1979, he played a waiter from Barcelona who worked for the ever-despairing Basil Fawlty played by John Cleese.
Sachs also played Hercule Poirot in the 1978 film \'Revenge of the Pink Panther\'
Despite his best efforts, Manuel struggled to grasp the English language and would frequently find himself on the wrong end of a clip round the head from Fawlty.
The hotelier would apologise to guests with the phrase: "I\'m sorry, he\'s from Barcelona."
Sachs later admitted the part required him to withstanding a substantial battering.
"John had to hit me over the head with a frying pan. In rehearsals it had been padded, but there was a mix-up during the recording and he used a real one," said Sachs.
"He hit me so hard I couldn’t get up, although he apologised in his own way, offering me a Babycham and a big kiss."
In another incident, Sachs recalled a ladder missed his nose by "a whisker" and he was left with second-degree burns after being set on fire with a blowtorch.
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