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- He couldn't speak because he had vascular dementia. "That means that you lose your speech but you don't lose your mind." The son of Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has told how his father's dementia meant he could no longer recognise himself on the classic sitcom.
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Dec 3, 2016 · The son of Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has told how his father's dementia meant he could no longer recognise himself on the classic sitcom. John Sachs told Sky News the final months of the actor's life were "very hard", describing dementia as a "terrible thing".
Dec 3, 2016 · The son of Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has told how his father's dementia meant he could no longer recognise himself on the classic sitcom. John Sachs told Sky News the final months of...
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Dec 2, 2016 · Sachs didn't miss the irony of a half-Jewish actor playing Walter Wagner, the Nazi lawyer who married Hitler to his mistress Eva Braun shortly before the pair committed suicide. Sachs...
May 1, 2009 · Why was Fawlty Towers so successful? "It's not only a farce," Sachs says, "it's a tragedy, and the relationship between all those people is very real. We recognise the follies in ourselves.
Dec 2, 2016 · There may have been only 12 episodes of the television series Fawlty Towers but the legacy created by Andrew Sachs as bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel has been demonstrated in the tributes paid...
Dec 2, 2016 · Actor Andrew Sachs, best known for his beloved portrayal of a hapless Spanish waiter named Manuel on the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died at 86. Sachs had "suffered from dementia for four...
Dec 2, 2016 · Comedy writer Edgar Wright said Sachs "spun comic gold as Manuel in Fawlty Towers". In 2008 Mr Sachs made unwanted headlines after Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand made a prank call to the...
