Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 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.

Acting

2025

2014

2014

Sub Rosa

Madame

2013

2012

Run For Your Wife

Woman in Pub

2011

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Great Aunt Greta

2009

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Self / Sybil Fawlty

2007

The Shell Seekers

Dolly Keeling

2005

2004

2003

The Royal

Red Admiral

2002

Dickens

Elizabeth Dickens

2000

1999

1999

An Ideal Husband

Lady Markby

1998

1997

Keeping Mum

Marjorie

1997

Midsomer Murders

Eleanor Bunsall

1996

Emma

Miss Bates

1996

1996

1996

1996

Silent Witness

Anne Parker

1995

1995

1995

1994

1994

Wolf

Maude Waggins

1992

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

Queen (voice)

1992

Howards End

Aunt Juley

1991

1990

1989

A Chorus of Disapproval

Hannah Ap Llewellyn

1988

Thompson

Unknown

1988

1988

After Henry

Sarah France

1988

1987

1986

Casualty

Jocelyn Anderson

1985

Theatre Night

Mrs. Prentice

1985

1983

The Wicked Lady

Lady Kingsclere

1982

1981

Bergerac

Gloria Gibbins

1981

Never the Twain

Susan Peel

1978

The Boys from Brazil

Mrs. Harrington

1978

1978

1977

Target

Diana Blake

1976

1976

1975

Fawlty Towers

Sybil Fawlty

1974

Playhouse

Florence Farr

1973

1965

1965

1962

Waltz of the Toreadors

Estella Fitzjohn

1961

1958

Room at the Top

Council Office Worker (uncredited)

1954

1954

Hobson's Choice

Vicky Hobson

1952

Infos

Full Name
Prunella Scales
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
6/22/1932
Also Known As

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales

Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth

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