Prunella Scales
2.8Acting

Prunella Scales

Jun 22, 1932 - Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth) 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.

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Movie1994WolfMaude Waggins
Movie2007The Shell SeekersDolly Keeling
Movie1996EmmaMiss Bates
Movie1987The Lonely Passion of Judith HearneMoira O'Neill
Movie1962Waltz of the ToreadorsEstella Fitzjohn
Movie1954Hobson's ChoiceVicky Hobson
Movie2006Mr. Loveday's Little OutingLady Moping
Movie1996Breaking the CodeSara Turing
Movie1991A Question of AttributionH.M.Q.
Movie1998Stiff Upper LipsAunt Agnes
Movie1992Freddie as F.R.O.7.Queen (voice)
Movie2002A Day In The Death Of Joe EggGrace
Movie1989A Chorus of DisapprovalHannah Ap Llewellyn
Movie1988Consuming PassionsEthel
Movie1987What the Butler SawMrs Prentice
Movie2013The Phone CallJoan
Movie2005Fawlty Towers RevisitedHerself
Movie1999An Ideal HusbandLady Markby
Movie1994Second BestMargery
Movie201450 Years of BBC Two ComedySelf
Movie1990Dirty BeastsNarrator
Movie1990Revolting RhymesNarrator
Movie1983The Wicked LadyLady Kingsclere
Movie2012Run For Your WifeWoman in Pub
Movie2009Fawlty Towers: Re-OpenedSelf / Sybil Fawlty
Movie1976The Littlest Horse ThievesMrs. Sandman
Movie1997An Audience with Alf Garnett
Movie1958Room at the TopCouncil Office Worker (uncredited)
Movie2000The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Movie1989Beyond The PaleMilly
Movie1978Doris and DoreenDoris Rutter
Movie1975The Apple CartQueen Jemima
Movie1954What Every Woman WantsMary
Movie1995An Awfully Big AdventureRose
Movie2001Station JimQueen Victoria
Movie2007What the Pythons Did Next...Self
Movie1996Lord of MisruleShirley
Movie1988Natural CausesCelia Bryce
Movie1994Fair GameMarjorie
Movie1992Howards EndAunt Juley
Movie1982Outside EdgeMiriam
Movie2011Horrid Henry: The MovieGreat Aunt Greta
Movie1978The Boys from BrazilMrs. Harrington
Movie1978The Hound of the BaskervillesGlynis
Movie1999Mad CowsDr. Minny Stinkler
Movie1982The Merry Wives of WindsorMistress Page
Movie1953Laxdale HallMorag McLeod
Movie1992My Friend WalterAunt Ellie
Movie1990The Tale of Little Pig RobinsonFleecy Flock
Movie1986Home CookingJudith
Movie2014Sub RosaMadame
Movie1987When We Are MarriedAnnie Parker
Movie1985Absurd Person SingularMarion Brewster-Wright
Movie1984Slimming DownMrs. Shrigley
Movie1977The Achurch LettersFlorence Farr
Movie1989Bosses From Hell
Movie1989Communicators From Hell
Movie2025Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy
TV Show1973Seven of One1
TV Show1997Midsomer MurdersEleanor Bunsall1
TV Show1981BergeracGloria Gibbins1
TV Show1975Fawlty TowersSybil Fawlty12
TV Show1961Marriage Lines43
TV Show1996Dalziel & Pascoe1
TV Show1988After Henry39
TV Show2014Great Canal JourneysSelf34
TV Show1985Mapp & Lucia10
TV Show1997Keeping MumMarjorie1
TV Show1995Look at the State We're In!Storyteller6
TV Show1986Unnatural CausesJudith1
TV Show2003The RoyalRed Admiral1
TV Show1988Thompson1
TV Show1976Lucky Feller1
TV Show1996Dennis the Menace and GnasherMrs. Duffel1
TV Show2002Dickens3
TV Show1978An Audience with...Self2
TV Show1986CasualtyJocelyn Anderson1
TV Show1995The World of Lee EvansMother1
TV Show1994The Rector's WifeMarjorie Richardson4
TV Show1995Signs and WondersElizabeth Palmore4
TV Show1996Silent WitnessAnne Parker2
TV Show1999Loose WomenSelf1
TV Show1952Pride and PrejudiceLydia Bennet6
TV Show1965Thirty-Minute TheatreMarie1
TV Show2004Agatha Christie's MarpleMrs Mackenzie1
TV Show1985Theatre NightMrs. Prentice1
TV Show1981Never the TwainSusan Peel1
TV Show1974PlayhouseFlorence Farr1
TV Show1965BBC Play of the MonthQueen Jemima1
TV Show1977TargetDiana Blake1

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