Died Andrew Sachs, Manuel from Fawlty Towers – the Public.en

The relationship of Basil Fawlty, the hotel owner personality arrogant and temperamental that protagonizava the series Fawlty Towers, with the created Spanish Manuel, an employee of awkward, with good intentions, has marked the history of british comedy. Andrew Sachs, who represented Manuel alongside John Cleese (Basil), died on the 23rd of November in a private home after four-year battle with vascular dementia, the second said his wife, Melody Sachs to british newspaper Daily Mail this Thursday.

The disease, which is the second most common form of Alzheimer’s, had been detected to the actor in 2012 and is characterized by the sudden loss of memory and language skills and changes of mood. Melody Sachs said that the actor just lost his ability to speak in the last three weeks, after suffering three accesses of pneumonia. "He had the best life and the best death that anyone could have," he acknowledged to the british publication. In spite of the growing decay of your health, Andrew Sachs "continued to work during [the first] two years" of the disease.

Fawlty Towers had 12 episodes that were broadcast in two seasons separated in 1975 and 1979 and became an icon of popular culture, also in the United States. It was frequent to listen to Manuel to train your English while doing their tasks in the hotel, to see him be the laughing stock on the part of Basil, or, still, the end up stuck in the schemes of the boss due to his naivety. Manuel also had a friendship moving with the maid Polly (Connie Booth, at the time wife of John Cleese and co-creator of the series) and proud to swell the chest in its roots Spanish.

The exaggeration of the hispanic accent of Andrew Sachs allied to your mustache farfalhudo did laugh a generation. "[To represent the side of Sachs] was like playing tennis with someone who is exactly as good as us," said John Cleese in statements to the program Today BBC Radio 4. Sachs, initially insecure with his ability to imitate the Spanish accent, suggested that the character would be German (due to its origins), but, when John Cleese insisted that Manuel was from Barcelona, mastered the accent in just a few weeks.

Cleese, 77 years old, he saw Sachs for the last time, there are "eight or nine months" for a photo session in which they were together and, at the time, realized that the actor "was not completely present in the moment", but did not hide to be in shock with the news. "If you knew Andrew, you would find it reserved, introvert, polite, almost in a way academic and scholar," he recalled to british radio. "But when he put on the mustache, it became a completely different person". The co-creator of sitcom of the 70′s paid homage to the friend on Twitter.

in Addition to appearing alongside John Cleese in the series of the BBC Comedy, Andrew Sachs also participated in Doctor Who, The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk and The History of Mr. Polly. Was, for many years, a regular presence on BBC Radio 4, interpreting various roles. The director of content at the BBC, Charlotte Moore, also paid tribute to the actor. "He entertained millions of people throughout his life and will be greatly missed," he said, quoted by the british newspaper The Guardian.

Born in 1930 in Berlin, Germany, Andrew Sachs, he moved with his family to London in 1938 to escape the nazis, and there settled. He married Melody Lang, who came in an episode of Fawlty Towers in 1970, and leaves three sons, Bill and John (who adopted the prior relationship of the Melody), and Kate.