John Cleese and his wife have unveiled blue plaques that pay tribute to two generations of the Freud family.

The plaques to Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna were unveiled on Friday, at the house in north London, where Freud lived until his death in 1939.

Mr Cleese paid tribute to the psychoanalyst while his wife, Alyce Faye, unveiled the plaque to Anna, who taught her psychotherapy at the house in 1978.

The house, in Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was converted to the Freud Museum in 1986.

Sigmund Freud completed his final work at the house

It has been preserved as Freud left it, right down to the book-lined study and the couch used by his patients.

He described Maresfield Gardens affectionately as "our last address on this planet" and completed his final work, Moses and Monotheism: An Outline of Psychoanalysis, while living there.

Ten members of the Freud family were present at the unveiling, at which Cleese described Freud as "a great anglophile".

He said: "He liked England enormously. He wrote that despite the fog and rain, the drunkenness and conservatism, it appealed to him."

Fled the Nazis

Erica Davies, director of the Freud Museum, said: "Sigmund Freud tried strenuously to become British, he died before he achieved his ambition, but Anna Freud often said 'Britain saved my father's life'.

"It is a remarkable tribute that two members of this extraordinary family are to be honoured with blue plaques.

Freud fled to England from Vienna to escape the Nazis in 1938.

His daughter lived and worked at the house in Maresfield Gardens for almost 44 years after her father's death.

A temporary plaque was erected at Maresfield Gardens in 1956 to mark the centenary of Freud's birth.