Prunella Scales
Acting Born: 1932-06-22 Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
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.
Movies
Howards End
Emma
Wolf
Consuming Passions
Slimming Down
Singles
Outside Edge
Laxdale Hall
Fair Game
Second Best
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Breaking the Code
Mad Cows
The Boys from Brazil
Home Cooking
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Room at the Top
Hobson's Choice
What Every Woman Wants
TV Shows
Midsomer Murders
Agatha Christie's Marple
Silent Witness
Casualty
Loose Women
Bergerac
BBC Play of the Month
Playhouse
Dalziel & Pascoe
An Audience with...
After Henry
Fawlty Towers
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Never the Twain
Target
Great Canal Journeys
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Thompson
Signs and Wonders
Mapp & Lucia