Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs dies aged 86

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Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs dies aged 86

Actor dies from Dementia after battling disease for four years

John Cleese playing Basil Fawlty and Andrew Sachs as Manuel

Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has died at the age of 86.

The actor, famed for playing Spanish waiter Manuel in the 1970s show, had reportedly been battling dementia for four years.

Sachs, who also starred in Coronation Street, was said to have died in a care home on November 23 and was buried in north London on Thursday.

His wife Melody told the Daily Mail he had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2012, the second most common form of the disease after Alzheimer's.

"My heart has been broken every day for a long time," she said, adding she had "never once heard him grumble" as he battled the condition.

Mrs Sachs told the newspaper: "It wasn’t all doom and gloom, he still worked for two years.

"We were happy, we were always laughing, we never had a dull moment. He had dementia for four years and we didn’t really notice it at first until the memory started going.

"It didn’t get really bad until quite near the end. I nursed Andrew, I was there for every moment of it."

His son John Sachs tweeted his thanks to people paying tribute to his father.

He told one Twitter user: "We are all grateful for your kind words."

Sachs and his 85-year-old wife were married for 57 years.

"We loved each other very deeply and it was a pleasure looking after him. I miss him terribly," Mrs Sachs said.

John Cleese, who starred alongside Sachs in Fawlty Towers paid tribute to the actor on Twitter as a "very sweet, gentle and kind man", who was a "great farceur".

Another. RIP