
Prunella Scales
June 22, 1932 (92 years old) in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
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
Credits
- 2014 · 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
- 2014 · Great Canal Journeys as Self
- 2014 · Sub Rosa as Madame
- 2013 · The Phone Call as Joan
- 2012 · Run For Your Wife as Woman in Pub
- 2011 · Horrid Henry: The Movie as Great Aunt Greta
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self / Sybil Fawlty
- 2007 · The Shell Seekers as Dolly Keeling
- 2007 · What the Pythons Did Next... as Self
- 2006 · Mr. Loveday's Little Outing as Lady Moping
- 2005 · Fawlty Towers Revisited as Herself
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs Mackenzie
- 2003 · The Royal as Red Admiral
- 2002 · Dickens as
- 2002 · A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg as Grace
- 2001 · Station Jim as Queen Victoria
- 2000 · The Ghost of Greville Lodge as
- 1999 · Mad Cows as Dr. Minny Stinkler
- 1999 · Loose Women as Self
- 1999 · An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby
- 1998 · Stiff Upper Lips as Aunt Agnes
- 1997 · Keeping Mum as Marjorie
- 1997 · An Audience with Alf Garnett as
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Eleanor Bunsall
- 1996 · Emma as Miss Bates
- 1996 · Breaking the Code as Sara Turing
- 1996 · Lord of Misrule as Shirley
- 1996 · Dennis the Menace and Gnasher as Mrs. Duffel
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1996 · Silent Witness as Anne Parker
- 1995 · The World of Lee Evans as Mother
- 1995 · Look at the State We're In! as Storyteller
- 1995 · An Awfully Big Adventure as Rose
- 1995 · Signs and Wonders as Elizabeth Palmore
- 1994 · Second Best as Margery
- 1994 · Wolf as Maude Waggins
- 1994 · Fair Game as Marjorie
- 1994 · The Rector's Wife as Marjorie Richardson
- 1992 · Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Queen (voice)
- 1992 · My Friend Walter as Aunt Ellie
- 1992 · Howards End as Aunt Juley
- 1991 · A Question of Attribution as H.M.Q.
- 1990 · The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Fleecy Flock
- 1990 · Dirty Beasts as Narrator
- 1990 · Revolting Rhymes as Narrator
- 1989 · Beyond The Pale as Milly
- 1989 · A Chorus of Disapproval as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
- 1989 · Communicators From Hell as
- 1989 · Bosses From Hell as
- 1988 · Thompson as
- 1988 · Natural Causes as Celia Bryce
- 1988 · Consuming Passions as Ethel
- 1988 · After Henry as
- 1987 · When We Are Married as Annie Parker
- 1987 · The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Moira O'Neill
- 1987 · What the Butler Saw as Mrs Prentice
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Judith
- 1986 · Home Cooking as Judith
- 1986 · Casualty as Jocelyn Anderson
- 1985 · Theatre Night as Mrs. Prentice
- 1985 · Mapp & Lucia as
- 1985 · Absurd Person Singular as Marion Brewster-Wright
- 1984 · Slimming Down as Mrs. Shrigley
- 1983 · The Wicked Lady as Lady Kingsclere
- 1982 · The Merry Wives of Windsor as Mistress Page
- 1982 · Outside Edge as Miriam
- 1981 · Bergerac as Gloria Gibbins
- 1978 · Doris and Doreen as Doris Rutter
- 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as Mistress Page
- 1978 · The Boys from Brazil as Mrs. Harrington
- 1978 · The Hound of the Baskervilles as Glynis
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1977 · Target as
- 1977 · The Achurch Letters as Florence Farr
- 1976 · Lucky Feller as
- 1976 · The Littlest Horse Thieves as Mrs. Sandman
- 1975 · Fawlty Towers as Sybil Fawlty
- 1975 · The Apple Cart as Queen Jemima
- 1973 · Seven of One as
- 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as Marie
- 1962 · Waltz of the Toreadors as Estella Fitzjohn
- 1961 · Marriage Lines as
- 1958 · Room at the Top as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
- 1954 · What Every Woman Wants as Mary
- 1954 · Hobson's Choice as Vicky Hobson
- 1953 · Laxdale Hall as Morag McLeod
- 1952 · Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennet