Prunella Scales
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth) is 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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Seven of One
7
Midsomer Murders
7.514
Bergerac
6.667
Fawlty Towers
8.258
Marriage Lines
5
Dalziel & Pascoe
6.5
After Henry
5.7
Great Canal Journeys
8.8
Mapp & Lucia
6
Keeping Mum
0
Look at the State We're In!
0
Unnatural Causes
5.5
The Royal
7.6
Thompson
1
Lucky Feller
7.2
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
6.2
Dickens
0
An Audience with...
5.3
Casualty
6.139
The World of Lee Evans
6
The Rector's Wife
8
Signs and Wonders
0
Silent Witness
7.6
Loose Women
3.2
Pride and Prejudice
0
Thirty-Minute Theatre
3.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
7.737
Theatre Night
0
Never the Twain
6.611
Playhouse
7
BBC Play of the Month
5
Target
6.333
Movies
Wolf
6.121
The Shell Seekers
6.9
Emma
6.6
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
6.6
Waltz of the Toreadors
4.8
Hobson's Choice
7.3
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
0
Breaking the Code
5.4
A Question of Attribution
6.6
Stiff Upper Lips
5.6
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
5
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
0
A Chorus of Disapproval
5.2
Consuming Passions
8
What the Butler Saw
1
The Phone Call
7.309
Fawlty Towers Revisited
0
An Ideal Husband
6.5
Second Best
6.7
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
8
Dirty Beasts
0
Revolting Rhymes
0
The Wicked Lady
4.9
Run For Your Wife
4.4
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
8
The Littlest Horse Thieves
6.792
An Audience with Alf Garnett
0
Room at the Top
6.9
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
6
Beyond The Pale
0
Doris and Doreen
0
The Apple Cart
0
What Every Woman Wants
6.333
An Awfully Big Adventure
6.559
Station Jim
7
What the Pythons Did Next...
0
Lord of Misrule
0
Natural Causes
0
Fair Game
3.5
Howards End
7.028
Outside Edge
6
Horrid Henry: The Movie
5.231
The Boys from Brazil
6.7
The Hound of the Baskervilles
4.42
Mad Cows
3.563
The Merry Wives of Windsor
8
Laxdale Hall
6
My Friend Walter
0
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
0
Home Cooking
0
Sub Rosa
5
When We Are Married
0
Absurd Person Singular
8
Slimming Down
0
The Achurch Letters
0
Bosses From Hell
0
Communicators From Hell
0
Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy
0