Prunella Scales
Biography
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (nÊe 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 (2014â2021), in which she travels on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
The Boys from Brazil
1978
Breaking the Code
1996
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
A Question of Attribution
1991
Sub Rosa
2014
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Howards End
1992
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Communicators From Hell
1989
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Emma
1996
Wolf
1994
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
Run For Your Wife
2012
Fair Game
1994
What Every Woman Wants
1954
Consuming Passions
1988
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997
The Wicked Lady
1983
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
Hobson's Choice
1954
The Shell Seekers
2007
Natural Causes
1988
The Crowded Day
1954
Mad Cows
1999
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
Room at the Top
1958
My Friend Walter
1992
The Phone Call
2013
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
Home Cooking
1986
Second Best
1994
When We Are Married
1987
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976