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Samuel West reveals the final words his theatre legend father Timothy said to him before he passed away aged 90 - and the 'beautiful' meaning of his time of death
The stage actor, who also starred in EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys with his Fawlty Towers star wife Prunella Scales, died at Wandsworth Common Care Home on November 12.
His children Juliet, Samuel and Joseph West announced the tragic news with a shared statement on social media, saying he died peacefully in his sleep 'with his friends and family at the end'. Prunella and Timothy previously starred together in their own Channel 4 TV show, Great Canal Journeys, between 2014 and 2021, but were forced to quit due to her ailing health. In an interview with the BBC last year, West said he recalled every word of that life-changing moment when the doctor finally diagnosed her condition: 'We went to see a specialist who said, 'Sorry this is just something which happens to you when you are older and it's not going to get any easier, but you can cope with it.
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