Prunella Scales
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 (103)
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Great Canal Journeys
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
What the Pythons Did Next...- Think
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Royal- Looking for Victoria
Dickens- A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
- Station Jim
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
An Ideal Husband
Mad Cows
Loose Women
Stiff Upper Lips
Midsomer Murders
An Audience with Alf Garnett
Keeping Mum- Lord of Misrule
Silent Witness
Emma
Dalziel and Pascoe
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Breaking the Code
The World of Lee Evans
Signs and Wonders
An Awfully Big Adventure- Look at the State We're In!
The Rector's Wife
Second Best
Wolf
Fair Game
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
My Friend Walter
Howards End
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
A Question of Attribution
Dirty Beasts
Revolting Rhymes
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Screen One
Beyond The Pale
A Chorus of Disapproval
Bosses From Hell
Communicators From Hell
Consuming Passions
Natural Causes
After Henry- Thompson
When We Are Married
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
What the Butler Saw
Unnatural Causes
Casualty
ScreenPlay
Home Cooking
Absurd Person Singular
Mapp & Lucia
Theatre Night
Slimming Down- Weekend Playhouse
- Singles
The Wicked Lady
Outside Edge
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Never the Twain
Bergerac
The Boys from Brazil
Doris and Doreen
The BBC Television Shakespeare
An Audience with...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Target
The Achurch Letters
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Fawlty Towers- The Apple Cart
Playhouse
Seven of One- The Ring of Truth
Country Matters- Film '72
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Waltz of the Toreadors
Marriage Lines- Faces of Jim
Room at the Top
Hobson's Choice
What Every Woman Wants
The Crowded Day- Laxdale Hall
Pride and Prejudice