Prunella Scales
Acting
Born 1932-06-22 · 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.
Known for
Wolf
1994 · Movie
Howards End
1992 · Movie
Emma
1996 · Movie
The Boys from Brazil
1978 · Movie
Consuming Passions
1988 · Movie
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · Movie
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982 · Movie
Hobson's Choice
1954 · Movie
Absurd Person Singular
1985 · Movie
Room at the Top
1958 · Movie
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Movie
Outside Edge
1982 · Movie
Second Best
1994 · Movie
The Shell Seekers
2007 · Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Movie
When We Are Married
1987 · Movie
A Question of Attribution
1991 · Movie
The Phone Call
2013 · Movie
Natural Causes
1988 · Movie
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000 · Movie
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976 · Movie
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011 · Movie
What Every Woman Wants
1954 · Movie
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987 · Movie
Doris and Doreen
1978 · Movie
The Wicked Lady
1983 · Movie
My Friend Walter
1992 · Movie
Beyond The Pale
1989 · Movie
Stiff Upper Lips
1998 · Movie
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Movie
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992 · Movie
The Crowded Day
1954 · Movie
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Movie
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Movie
Sub Rosa
2014 · Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978 · Movie
Fair Game
1994 · Movie
Breaking the Code
1996 · Movie
Mad Cows
1999 · Movie
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962 · Movie
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005 · Movie
What the Butler Saw
1987 · Movie
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007 · Movie
Communicators From Hell
1989 · Movie
Bosses From Hell
1989 · Movie
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990 · Movie
The Achurch Letters
1977 · Movie
Home Cooking
1986 · Movie
Dirty Beasts
1990 · Movie
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025 · Movie
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997 · Movie
Revolting Rhymes
1990 · Movie
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994 · Movie
Slimming Down
1984 · Movie
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006 · Movie