Prunella Scales

DOB: 1932-06-22

DOD: -

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.

Starred In

1994
Movie

Wolf

2007
Movie

The Shell Seekers

1996
Movie

Emma

1954
Movie

Hobson's Choice

1996
Movie

Breaking the Code

1998
Movie

Stiff Upper Lips

1988
Movie

Consuming Passions

2013
Movie

The Phone Call

1999
Movie

An Ideal Husband

1994
Movie

Second Best

1990
Movie

Dirty Beasts

1990
Movie

Revolting Rhymes

1983
Movie

The Wicked Lady

2012
Movie

Run For Your Wife

1958
Movie

Room at the Top

1989
Movie

Beyond The Pale

1978
Movie

Doris and Doreen

1975
Movie

The Apple Cart

2001
Movie

Station Jim

1996
Movie

Lord of Misrule

1988
Movie

Natural Causes

1994
Movie

Fair Game

1992
Movie

Howards End

1982
Movie

Outside Edge

1999
Movie

Mad Cows

1953
Movie

Laxdale Hall

1992
Movie

My Friend Walter

1986
Movie

Home Cooking

2014
Movie

Sub Rosa

1984
Movie

Slimming Down

1989
Movie

Bosses From Hell

1973
Tv

Seven of One

1981
Tv

Bergerac

1975
Tv

Fawlty Towers

1988
Tv

After Henry

1977
Tv

Target

1985
Tv

Mapp & Lucia

1997
Tv

Keeping Mum

2003
Tv

The Royal

1988
Tv

Thompson

1976
Tv

Lucky Feller

2002
Tv

Dickens

1986
Tv

Casualty

1999
Tv

Loose Women

1985
Tv

Theatre Night