Prunella Scales
June 22, 1932 (92 years old) in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Prunella Scales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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
- 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 · Bosses From Hell as
- 1989 · Communicators 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 · 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 · BBC Television Shakespeare as
- 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