Prunella Scales
Born June 22, 1932 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 22 June 1932) was an English former actor, best known for playing Sybil Fawlty, wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers; for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award); and for the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), in which she travels on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Howards End
The Boys from Brazil
Emma
Wolf
Sub Rosa
The Wicked Lady
Room at the Top
Horrid Henry: The Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
Fair Game
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Consuming Passions
A Chorus of Disapproval
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
What the Pythons Did Next...
Home Cooking
Hobson's Choice
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Dirty Beasts
Second Best
Revolting Rhymes
A Question of Attribution
Natural Causes
When We Are Married
The Hound of the Baskervilles
An Ideal Husband
Communicators From Hell
Fawlty Towers Revisited
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
TV Shows
BBC Play of the Month
Agatha Christie's Marple
Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Bergerac
ScreenPlay
Dalziel and Pascoe
An Audience with...
Fawlty Towers
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Screen One
Never the Twain
Target
After Henry
Great Canal Journeys
Unnatural Causes
Marriage Lines
Country Matters
Mapp & Lucia
Theatre Night
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Seven of One
Dickens
Pride and Prejudice
Signs and Wonders
The World of Lee Evans
Keeping Mum
The Rector's Wife
The Royal
More Movies
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Stiff Upper Lips
Station Jim
Mad Cows
Run For Your Wife
The Crowded Day
Breaking the Code
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
The Phone Call
The Littlest Horse Thieves
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Achurch Letters
Bosses From Hell
The Shell Seekers
What the Butler Saw
Absurd Person Singular
My Friend Walter
Doris and Doreen
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
What Every Woman Wants
Waltz of the Toreadors
Slimming Down
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Beyond The Pale
An Audience with Alf Garnett
