Prunella Scales
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.
Filmography
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Sub Rosa
The Phone Call
Run For Your Wife
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
The Shell Seekers
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Think
What the Pythons Did Next...
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Fawlty Towers Revisited
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
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A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
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Station Jim
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Mad Cows
An Ideal Husband
Stiff Upper Lips
An Audience with Alf Garnett
Emma
Breaking the Code
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Lord of Misrule
An Awfully Big Adventure
Second Best
Wolf
Fair Game
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
My Friend Walter
Howards End
A Question of Attribution
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Dirty Beasts
Revolting Rhymes
Beyond The Pale
A Chorus of Disapproval
Bosses From Hell
Communicators From Hell
Natural Causes
Consuming Passions
When We Are Married
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
What the Butler Saw
Home Cooking
Absurd Person Singular
Slimming Down
The Wicked Lady
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Singles
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Outside Edge
Doris and Doreen
The Boys from Brazil
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Achurch Letters
The Littlest Horse Thieves
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The Apple Cart
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The Ring of Truth
Waltz of the Toreadors
Room at the Top
The Crowded Day
What Every Woman Wants
Hobson's Choice
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Laxdale Hall