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