Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales (93)

1932-06-22 - 2025-10-27 | 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.

On Movies

  • The Phone Call
  • Run For Your Wife
  • Horrid Henry: The Movie
  • The Shell Seekers
  • Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
  • A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
  • Station Jim
  • The Ghost of Greville Lodge
  • Mad Cows
  • An Ideal Husband
  • Stiff Upper Lips
  • An Audience with Alf Garnett
  • Emma
  • Breaking the Code
  • Lord of Misrule
  • An Awfully Big Adventure
  • Second Best
  • Wolf
  • Fair Game
  • Freddie As F.R.O.7.
  • My Friend Walter
  • Howards End
  • A Question of Attribution
  • The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
  • Dirty Beasts
  • Revolting Rhymes
  • Beyond The Pale
  • A Chorus of Disapproval
  • Natural Causes
  • Consuming Passions
  • When We Are Married
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
  • Home Cooking
  • Absurd Person Singular
  • The Wicked Lady
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Outside Edge
  • Doris and Doreen
  • The Boys from Brazil
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Littlest Horse Thieves
  • Waltz of the Toreadors
  • Room at the Top
  • The Crowded Day
  • What Every Woman Wants
  • Hobson's Choice
  • Laxdale Hall

On Series

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