Prunella Scales
Acting
Born 1932-06-22
Died 2025-10-27
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
104 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Midsomer Murders
Casualty
Silent Witness
Agatha Christie's Marple
BBC Play of the Month
Playhouse
Film '72
Bergerac
Loose Women
Thirty-Minute Theatre
An Audience with...
Dalziel and Pascoe
Fawlty Towers
ScreenPlay
Screen One
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Howards End
Never the Twain
Target
Wolf
Emma
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Country Matters
The Boys from Brazil
Unnatural Causes
Faces of Jim
After Henry
Look at the State We're In!
Great Canal Journeys
Mapp & Lucia
Theatre Night
Sub Rosa
Fair Game
Second Best
Room at the Top
Seven of One
Consuming Passions
Hobson's Choice
Horrid Henry: The Movie
The Wicked Lady
Thompson
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
The Rector's Wife
A Chorus of Disapproval
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Signs and Wonders
S.W.A.L.K.
Looking for Victoria
Marriage Lines
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
When We Are Married
Home Cooking
Keeping Mum
Dirty Beasts
Weekend Playhouse
What the Pythons Did Next...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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