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