Prunella Scales
Acting
1932-06-22 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
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 · Movie
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Movie
Great Canal Journeys
2014 · Series
Sub Rosa
2014 · Movie
The Phone Call
2013 · Movie
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Movie
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011 · Movie
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · Movie
The Shell Seekers
2007 · Movie
Think
2007 · Movie
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007 · Movie
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006 · Movie
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005 · Movie
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Looking for Victoria
2003 · Series
The Royal
2003 · Series
Dickens
2002 · Series
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2002 · Movie
Station Jim
2001 · Movie
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000 · Movie
Mad Cows
1999 · Movie
Loose Women
1999 · Series
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Movie
Stiff Upper Lips
1998 · Movie
Keeping Mum
1997 · Series
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997 · Movie
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
Emma
1996 · Movie
Breaking the Code
1996 · Movie
Lord of Misrule
1996 · Movie
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996 · Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
The World of Lee Evans
1995 · Series
Look at the State We're In!
1995 · Series
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Movie
Signs and Wonders
1995 · Series
Second Best
1994 · Movie
Wolf
1994 · Movie
Fair Game
1994 · Movie
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994 · Movie
The Rector's Wife
1994 · Series
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992 · Movie
My Friend Walter
1992 · Movie
Howards End
1992 · Movie
A Question of Attribution
1991 · Movie
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990 · Movie
Dirty Beasts
1990 · Movie
Revolting Rhymes
1990 · Movie
Screen One
1989 · Series
Beyond The Pale
1989 · Movie
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Movie
Bosses From Hell
1989 · Movie
Communicators From Hell
1989 · Movie
Thompson
1988 · Series
Natural Causes
1988 · Movie
Consuming Passions
1988 · Movie
After Henry
1988 · Series
When We Are Married
1987 · Movie
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987 · Movie
What the Butler Saw
1987 · Movie
Unnatural Causes
1986 · Series
Home Cooking
1986 · Movie
Casualty
1986 · Series
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Theatre Night
1985 · Series
Mapp & Lucia
1985 · Series
Absurd Person Singular
1985 · Movie
Weekend Playhouse
1984 · Series
Slimming Down
1984 · Movie
The Wicked Lady
1983 · Movie
Singles
1983 · Movie
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982 · Movie
Outside Edge
1982 · Movie
S.W.A.L.K.
1982 · Series
Bergerac
1981 · Series
Never the Twain
1981 · Series
Doris and Doreen
1978 · Movie
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Series
The Boys from Brazil
1978 · Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978 · Movie
Pickersgill People
1978 · Series
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
Target
1977 · Series
The Achurch Letters
1977 · Movie
Mr. Big
1977 · Series
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976 · Movie
Fawlty Towers
1975 · Series
The Apple Cart
1975 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Seven of One
1973 · Series
The Ring of Truth
1973 · Movie
Country Matters
1972 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962 · Movie
Faces of Jim
1961 · Series
Marriage Lines
1961 · Series
Room at the Top
1958 · Movie
The Crowded Day
1954 · Movie
What Every Woman Wants
1954 · Movie
Hobson's Choice
1954 · Movie
Laxdale Hall
1953 · Movie
Pride and Prejudice
1952 · Series