Prunella Scales

Acting

22-06-1932

She/Her

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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Movies (Acting)

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Run For Your Wife

Great Aunt Greta

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Self / Sybil Fawlty

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

The Shell Seekers

What the Pythons Did Next...

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

Fawlty Towers Revisited

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

Dr. Minny Stinkler

An Ideal Husband

Stiff Upper Lips

An Audience with Alf Garnett

Breaking the Code

Lord of Misrule

An Awfully Big Adventure

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

My Friend Walter

A Question of Attribution

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Revolting Rhymes

Beyond The Pale

Hannah Ap Llewellyn

A Chorus of Disapproval

Bosses From Hell

Communicators From Hell

Consuming Passions

When We Are Married

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

What the Butler Saw

Marion Brewster-Wright

Absurd Person Singular

Lady Kingsclere

The Wicked Lady

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Doris and Doreen

Mrs. Harrington

The Boys from Brazil

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Achurch Letters

The Littlest Horse Thieves

Estella Fitzjohn

Waltz of the Toreadors

Council Office Worker (uncredited)

Room at the Top

What Every Woman Wants

Hobson's Choice

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