Prunella Scales
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1932-06-22
Place of Birth: Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Popularity: 1.0
Biography
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 Filmography
Midsomer Murders
1997
Casualty
1986
Silent Witness
1996
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Bergerac
1981
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Loose Women
1999
Playhouse
1974
An Audience with...
1978
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Fawlty Towers
1975
Screen One
1989
ScreenPlay
1986
Never the Twain
1981
Target
1977
After Henry
1988
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
Country Matters
1972
Wolf
1994
Great Canal Journeys
2014
Howards End
1992
Unnatural Causes
1986
Emma
1996
Mapp & Lucia
1985
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Theatre Night
1985
The Boys from Brazil
1978No Photo
Faces of Jim
1961
Keeping Mum
1997No Photo
Weekend Playhouse
1984
Seven of One
1973No Photo
Look at the State We're In!
1995No Photo
Thompson
1988
Room at the Top
1958
Marriage Lines
1961
Hobson's Choice
1954
Signs and Wonders
1995
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
Dickens
2002
Sub Rosa
2014
The Royal
2003
Mad Cows
1999
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
The World of Lee Evans
1995
The Rector's Wife
1994
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
Second Best
1994
Pride and Prejudice
1952
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978No Photo
Station Jim
2001
Fair Game
1994
The Wicked Lady
1983
The Phone Call
2013
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
Run For Your Wife
2012No Photo
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Breaking the Code
1996
The Shell Seekers
2007
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
When We Are Married
1987No Photo
Lord of Misrule
1996
Absurd Person Singular
1985
Consuming Passions
1988
Lucky Feller
1976
A Question of Attribution
1991
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Slimming Down
1984
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
An Ideal Husband
1999
The Crowded Day
1954No Photo
The Apple Cart
1975
Revolting Rhymes
1990
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962No Photo
Laxdale Hall
1953
The Achurch Letters
1977
Beyond The Pale
1989No Photo
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2002
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
Communicators From Hell
1989
What Every Woman Wants
1954
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Home Cooking
1986
Outside Edge
1982
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
Doris and Doreen
1978
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006No Photo
Looking for Victoria
2003
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
Natural Causes
1988
What the Butler Saw
1987
My Friend Walter
1992
Dirty Beasts
1990No Photo
Singles
1983
Bosses From Hell
1989No Photo
Think
2007
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994No Photo
The Ring of Truth
1973