Prunella Scales

Biography

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 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.

Known For

Wolf

17 June, 1994

The Shell Seekers

18 October, 2007

Emma

2 October, 1996

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

23 December, 1987

Waltz of the Toreadors

12 April, 1962

Hobson's Choice

19 April, 1954

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

7 May, 2006

Breaking the Code

17 September, 1996

A Question of Attribution

20 October, 1991

Stiff Upper Lips

12 June, 1998

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

14 August, 1992

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

13 March, 2002

A Chorus of Disapproval

18 August, 1989

Consuming Passions

6 April, 1988

What the Butler Saw

23 May, 1987

The Phone Call

20 October, 2013

Fawlty Towers Revisited

1 December, 2005

An Ideal Husband

18 May, 1999

Second Best

30 September, 1994

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

24 May, 2014

Dirty Beasts

2 January, 1990

Revolting Rhymes

2 January, 1990

The Wicked Lady

21 April, 1983

Run For Your Wife

16 May, 2012

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

10 May, 2009

The Littlest Horse Thieves

26 May, 1976

An Audience with Alf Garnett

5 April, 1997

Room at the Top

29 December, 1958

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

6 October, 2000

Beyond The Pale

30 August, 1989

Doris and Doreen

16 December, 1978

The Apple Cart

19 January, 1975

What Every Woman Wants

10 June, 1954

An Awfully Big Adventure

11 May, 1995

Station Jim

30 December, 2001

What the Pythons Did Next...

1 January, 2007

Lord of Misrule

6 May, 1996

Natural Causes

11 September, 1988

Fair Game

11 June, 1994

Howards End

13 March, 1992

Outside Edge

19 December, 1982

Horrid Henry: The Movie

29 July, 2011

The Boys from Brazil

5 October, 1978

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1 August, 1978

Mad Cows

29 October, 1999

The Merry Wives of Windsor

28 December, 1982

Laxdale Hall

1 April, 1953

My Friend Walter

24 April, 1992

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

26 December, 1990

Home Cooking

8 November, 1986

Sub Rosa

1 January, 2014

When We Are Married

26 December, 1987

Absurd Person Singular

1 January, 1985

Slimming Down

30 June, 1984

The Achurch Letters

12 January, 1977

Bosses From Hell

1 January, 1989

Communicators From Hell

1 January, 1989

Seven of One

1973

Midsomer Murders

1997

Bergerac

1981

Fawlty Towers

1975

Marriage Lines

1961

Dalziel & Pascoe

1996

After Henry

1988

Great Canal Journeys

2014

Target

1977

Mapp & Lucia

1985

Keeping Mum

1997

Look at the State We're In!

1995

Unnatural Causes

1986

The Royal

2003

Thompson

1988

Lucky Feller

1976

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

1996

Dickens

2002

An Audience with...

1978

Casualty

1986

The World of Lee Evans

1995

The Rector's Wife

1994

Signs and Wonders

1995

Silent Witness

1996

Loose Women

1999

Pride and Prejudice

1952

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

Theatre Night

1985

The BBC Television Shakespeare

1978