Prunella Scales
Acting Born Jun 22, 1932 Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Eleanor Bunsall
- Casualty (1986) as Jocelyn Anderson
- Silent Witness (1996) as Anne Parker
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) as Mrs Mackenzie
- Bergerac (1981) as Gloria Gibbins
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Queen Jemima
- Playhouse (1974) as Florence Farr
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) as Edith Disney
- Loose Women (1999) as Self
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Marie
- An Audience with... (1978) as Self
- Screen One (1989) as H.M.Q.
- Fawlty Towers (1975) as Sybil Fawlty
- The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) as Mistress Page
- ScreenPlay (1986) as Milly
- Never the Twain (1981) as Susan Peel
- Target (1977) as Diana Blake
- Country Matters (1972) as Babs Pickard
- Howards End (1992) as Aunt Juley
- Unnatural Causes (1986) as Judith
- Wolf (1994) as Maude Waggins
- After Henry (1988) as Sarah France
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (1996) as Mrs. Duffel
- Emma (1996) as Miss Bates