Prunella Scales
Acting
June 22, 1932
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
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.
Movies
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
Emma
1996
Wolf
1994
Howards End
1992
What the Butler Saw
1987
Fair Game
1994
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
Mad Cows
1999
Home Cooking
1986
Hobson's Choice
1954
Consuming Passions
1988
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
Bosses From Hell
1989
Natural Causes
1988
The Boys from Brazil
1978
Second Best
1994
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
The Phone Call
2013
TV Shows
Midsomer Murders
1997
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Silent Witness
1996
Casualty
1986
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Playhouse
1974
Bergerac
1981
Loose Women
1999
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Fawlty Towers
1975
An Audience with...
1978
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Target
1977
Never the Twain
1981
Great Canal Journeys
2014
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
After Henry
1988
Seven of One
1973
Mapp & Lucia
1985
Signs and Wonders
1995