She was 91 and suffering from dementia, but writer Julian Machin didn’t doubt she wouldn’t be able to deliver the lines for what would be her last ever role. Following the death of the revered British actor, he describes the last precious moments they spent together and pays tribute to the formidable woman she was A t our first encounter, in 1979, she put on a dramatic display that I couldn’t forget. Pru was famous and she and her actor husband, Timothy West , were visiting Finchcocks, the