Prunella Scales

The band released only one album, Dressing Up the Idiot. After a long bout with diabetes, a broken hip, and a number of strokes, Jan Sterling died on March 26, 2004, in Los Angeles, California, a few days before her 84th birthday. Prunella Scales was the side project of Skid Row bass player Rachel Bolan in 1996. Inactive for nearly two decades, she made an appearance at the Cinecon Film Festival in Los Angeles in the fall of 2001. She and Timothy West are both ambassadors for SOS Children's Charity [1] (http://www.sos-uk.org.uk/our-friends.htm). They never married but stayed together until his death in 1993. In 2003 she appeared as Hilda, alias "she who must be obeyed", wife of Horace Rumpole in a series of four BBC Radio 4 plays, with her husband playing her fictional husband. In the 70s she entered into a strong personal relationship with actor Sam Wanamaker.

She is married to the British actor Timothy West, and their son is the actor Samuel West. Herbert Hoover in the TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House. More recently she has been seen in a series of Tesco supermarket commercials as a domineering mother with Jane Horrocks as her long-suffering daughter. She retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969 and returned before the cameras in 1976 to portray Mrs. She has had major roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, most notably After Henry and Ladies of Letters. Married and divorced to actor John Merivale (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0580881/) in the 40s, Sterling's career slipped down after the death of her second husband, actor Paul Douglas, in 1959. Her first big break came with the early 1960s sitcom, Marriage Lines, in which she starred opposite Richard Briers. During the following years, she appears regularly in movies like Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Kathy O, and The Female Animal.

Prunella Scales has had a long and distinguished career as an actress, mostly in comic roles. Also the same year, she travelled to England to play the role of Julia in the first film version of George Orwell's 1984, despite being several months pregnant at the time. Prunella Scales (born June 22, 1932) is an actress best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom, Fawlty Towers. In 1954 Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for her great performance in The High and the Mighty. Shuttling between films and television, she showed up in nearly all the major live anthologies of the 1950s, stood out in such 'bad girl' film roles in Caged (1950), The Big Carnival [aka 'Ace in the Hole'] (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), The Human Jungle (1954), and Female on the Beach (1955), while making a more sympathetic impression in Sky Full of Moon (1952). In 1948 she broke into films supporting the Academy Award winner Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda, in a key, emotional role.

Then, the actrees Ruth Gordon insisted she change her stage name and the two hit upon 'Jan Sterling'. Seldom cast in passive roles, Sterling was at her best in parts calling for hard-bitten, sometimes hard-boiled determination. As a teenager she returned to Manhattan, and billed as Jane Sterling, made her first Broadway appearance in Bachelor Born and went on to appear in such major stage offerings as Panama Hattie, Over 21 and Present Laughter. In 1947, she made her movies debut in Tycoon, now billed as Jane Darian. She was schooled by private tutors in London and Paris, and was enrolled in Fay Compton's dramatic school in London.

Sterling was educated in private schools before heading to Europe with her family. Jan Sterling was born Jane Sterling Adriance on April 3, 1921, in New York City, NY, into a prosperous family. One of Hollywood's most talented and versatile stars, often cool and stunning blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the 1940s and '50s, the actrees Jan Sterling ensured audiences of a real good time with her sexy roles in soaps, crime action and comedies.