Prunella Scales

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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.

Filmography

• The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers (2025)
• 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy (2014)
• Sub Rosa (2014)
• The Phone Call (2013)
• Run For Your Wife (2012)
• Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
• Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened (2009)
• The Shell Seekers (2007)
• Think (2007)
• What the Pythons Did Next... (2007)
• Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (2006)
• Fawlty Towers Revisited (2005)
• The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2002)
• Station Jim (2001)
• The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000)
• Mad Cows (1999)
• An Ideal Husband (1999)
• Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
• An Audience with Alf Garnett (1997)
• Emma (1996)
• Breaking the Code (1996)
• Lord of Misrule (1996)
• An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
• Second Best (1994)
• Wolf (1994)
• Fair Game (1994)
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1994)
• Freddie As F.R.O.7. (1992)
• My Friend Walter (1992)
• Howards End (1992)
• A Question of Attribution (1991)
• The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990)
• Dirty Beasts (1990)
• Revolting Rhymes (1990)
• Beyond The Pale (1989)
• A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
• Bosses From Hell (1989)
• Communicators From Hell (1989)
• Natural Causes (1988)
• Consuming Passions (1988)
• When We Are Married (1987)
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
• What the Butler Saw (1987)
• Home Cooking (1986)
• Absurd Person Singular (1985)
• Slimming Down (1984)
• The Wicked Lady (1983)
• Singles (1983)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)
• Outside Edge (1982)
• Doris and Doreen (1978)
• The Boys from Brazil (1978)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
• The Achurch Letters (1977)
• The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
• The Apple Cart (1975)
• The Ring of Truth (1973)
• Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
• Room at the Top (1958)
• The Crowded Day (1954)
• What Every Woman Wants (1954)
• Hobson's Choice (1954)
• Laxdale Hall (1953)