Prunella Scales
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) 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
7.5
Bergerac
6.667
Fawlty Towers
8.3
Marriage Lines
5
Dalziel & Pascoe
6.44
After Henry
5.7
Great Canal Journeys
8.8
Target
6.5
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
5.5
Dickens
0
An Audience with...
5.3
Casualty
6.1
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
7.665
Theatre Night
0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Never the Twain
6.611
Movies
Wolf
6.1
The Shell Seekers
7.167
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
5.238
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
4.929
Run For Your Wife
3.85
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
8
The Littlest Horse Thieves
6.9
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
6.7
Station Jim
7
What the Pythons Did Next...
0
Lord of Misrule
0
Natural Causes
0
Fair Game
3.5
Howards End
7.025
Outside Edge
6
Horrid Henry: The Movie
5.2
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