Prunella Scales
Acting
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.
Born: June 22, 1932 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Filmography (42)
The Phone Call
2013
Run For Your Wife
2012
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
The Shell Seekers
2007
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The Royal
2003
Mad Cows
1999
Loose Women
1999
An Ideal Husband
1999
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
Midsomer Murders
1997
Emma
1996
Breaking the Code
1996
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Silent Witness
1996
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
Second Best
1994
Wolf
1994
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
Howards End
1992
A Question of Attribution
1991
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
Casualty
1986
Mapp & Lucia
1985
The Wicked Lady
1983
Bergerac
1981
Never the Twain
1981
The Boys from Brazil
1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
An Audience with...
1978
Target
1977
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
Fawlty Towers
1975
Playhouse
1974
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
Room at the Top
1958
The Crowded Day
1954
Hobson's Choice
1954