Prunella Scales
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
Maude Waggins
Wolf
Dolly Keeling
The Shell Seekers
Miss Bates
Emma
Moira O'Neill
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Estella Fitzjohn
Waltz of the Toreadors
Vicky Hobson
Hobson's Choice
Lady Moping
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Sara Turing
Breaking the Code
H.M.Q.
A Question of Attribution
Aunt Agnes
Stiff Upper Lips
Queen (voice)
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Grace
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Hannah Ap Llewellyn
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ethel
Consuming Passions
Mrs Prentice
What the Butler Saw
Joan
The Phone Call
Herself
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Lady Markby
An Ideal Husband
Margery
Second Best
Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Narrator
Dirty Beasts
Narrator
Revolting Rhymes
Lady Kingsclere
The Wicked Lady
Woman in Pub
Run For Your Wife
Self / Sybil Fawlty
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Mrs. Sandman
The Littlest Horse Thieves
An Audience with Alf Garnett
Council Office Worker (uncredited)
Room at the Top
Sarah
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Milly
Beyond The Pale
Doris Rutter
Doris and Doreen
Queen Jemima
The Apple Cart
Mary
What Every Woman Wants
Rose
An Awfully Big Adventure
Queen Victoria
Station Jim
Self
What the Pythons Did Next...
Shirley
Lord of Misrule
Celia Bryce
Natural Causes
Marjorie
Fair Game
Aunt Juley
Howards End
Miriam
Outside Edge
Great Aunt Greta
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Mrs. Harrington
The Boys from Brazil
Glynis
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. Minny Stinkler
Mad Cows
Mistress Page
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Morag McLeod
Laxdale Hall
Aunt Ellie
My Friend Walter
Fleecy Flock
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Judith
Home Cooking
Madame
Sub Rosa
Annie Parker
When We Are Married
Marion Brewster-Wright
Absurd Person Singular
Mrs. Shrigley
Slimming Down
Florence Farr
The Achurch Letters
Bosses From Hell
Communicators From Hell
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Customer
The Crowded Day
Gail
Singles
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
61
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-06-22
Place of Birth
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales