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
Wolf
The Boys from Brazil
Emma
Dirty Beasts
Consuming Passions
Revolting Rhymes
Room at the Top
Horrid Henry: The Movie
An Ideal Husband
Fair Game
An Awfully Big Adventure
Natural Causes
The Wicked Lady
Sub Rosa
Hobson's Choice
Second Best
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Home Cooking
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
A Chorus of Disapproval
Bosses From Hell
Run For Your Wife
Stiff Upper Lips
Waltz of the Toreadors
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Littlest Horse Thieves
An Audience with Alf Garnett
The Phone Call
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
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
What Every Woman Wants
When We Are Married
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
The Achurch Letters
A Question of Attribution
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Station Jim
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
The Shell Seekers
Communicators From Hell
What the Butler Saw
Slimming Down
Absurd Person Singular
What the Pythons Did Next...
Mad Cows
The Crowded Day
Breaking the Code
Doris and Doreen
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Outside Edge
My Friend Walter
