Prunella Scales
Born: 1932-06-22
Place of Birth: 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.
Known For
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000★ 6.4
Emma
1996★ 6.6
Wolf
1994★ 6.1
Fair Game
1994★ 3.8
Mad Cows
1999★ 3.9
Howards End
1992★ 7.0
Home Cooking
1986★ 0.0
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978★ 4.3
What the Butler Saw
1987★ 1.0
Consuming Passions
1988★ 8.0
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009★ 8.0
Natural Causes
1988★ 0.0
Hobson's Choice
1954★ 7.4
Second Best
1994★ 6.7
The Boys from Brazil
1978★ 6.7
Sub Rosa
2014★ 5.0
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025★ 0.0
Bosses From Hell
1989★ 0.0
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011★ 5.2
The Wicked Lady
1983★ 4.8
Slimming Down
1984★ 0.0
The Phone Call
2013★ 7.3
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995★ 6.5
Dirty Beasts
1990★ 0.0
Doris and Doreen
1978★ 6.0
When We Are Married
1987★ 0.0
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987★ 6.5
Room at the Top
1958★ 6.9
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962★ 4.8
The Crowded Day
1954★ 5.4
An Ideal Husband
1999★ 6.4
My Friend Walter
1992★ 0.0
Beyond The Pale
1989★ 0.0
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992★ 5.2
Revolting Rhymes
1990★ 0.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982★ 8.0
The Shell Seekers
2007★ 6.9
What Every Woman Wants
1954★ 6.3
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014★ 8.0
Run For Your Wife
2012★ 4.4
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976★ 6.8
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990★ 0.0
A Question of Attribution
1991★ 6.6
Breaking the Code
1996★ 5.1
Stiff Upper Lips
1998★ 5.2
Absurd Person Singular
1985★ 8.0
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007★ 0.0
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989★ 5.3
The Achurch Letters
1977★ 0.0
Communicators From Hell
1989★ 0.0
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005★ 5.0
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997★ 0.0
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006★ 0.0
Outside Edge
1982★ 6.0
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994★ 0.0