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