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
Consuming Passions
Room at the Top
Dirty Beasts
An Ideal Husband
Revolting Rhymes
Horrid Henry: The Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
Hobson's Choice
Fair Game
Sub Rosa
The Wicked Lady
Natural Causes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Second Best
Run For Your Wife
A Chorus of Disapproval
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Home Cooking
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
When We Are Married
Bosses From Hell
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Phone Call
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Breaking the Code
TV Shows
Thirty-Minute Theatre
BBC Play of the Month
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dalziel and Pascoe
Bergerac
An Audience with...
Playhouse
ScreenPlay
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Screen One
Fawlty Towers
Never the Twain
Target
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
After Henry
Mapp & Lucia
Country Matters
Great Canal Journeys
Theatre Night
Unnatural Causes
Marriage Lines
Pickersgill People
Seven of One
Signs and Wonders
Keeping Mum
Pride and Prejudice
The World of Lee Evans
The Rector's Wife
Dickens
The Royal
More Movies
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Waltz of the Toreadors
The Achurch Letters
The Shell Seekers
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
An Audience with Alf Garnett
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
What Every Woman Wants
Stiff Upper Lips
Station Jim
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Mad Cows
A Question of Attribution
What the Butler Saw
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Communicators From Hell
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
What the Pythons Did Next...
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Absurd Person Singular
The Crowded Day
Doris and Doreen
Slimming Down
Outside Edge
My Friend Walter
Fawlty Towers Revisited
