Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs dies aged 86
Actor Andrew Sachs, famed for his role as a waiter in British sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died, his wife said in a newspaper interview on Thursday. "My heart has been broken every day for a long time," his wife Melody Sachs was quoted as saying. The German-born actor rose to fame in the 1970s for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers, playing a hotel waiter alongside actor John Cleese as the proprietor.