Prunella Scales
Acting · Born 1932-06-22 · age 93 at death · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
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.
Titles
Wolf
Fawlty Towers
Howards End
The Boys from Brazil
Midsomer Murders
Hobson's Choice
Agatha Christie's Marple
Room at the Top
Emma
Silent Witness
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Casualty
The Phone Call
An Awfully Big Adventure
Second Best
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dalziel and Pascoe
A Chorus of Disapproval
The Wicked Lady
Bergerac
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Breaking the Code
Waltz of the Toreadors
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Stiff Upper Lips
Run For Your Wife
Mad Cows
Never the Twain
A Question of Attribution
The Royal
The Crowded Day
An Ideal Husband
Thirty-Minute Theatre
BBC Play of the Month
Mapp & Lucia
The Shell Seekers
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Fair Game
After Henry
Seven of One
The BBC Television Shakespeare
What Every Woman Wants
Country Matters
Screen One
Sub Rosa
The World of Lee Evans
Target
Consuming Passions
What the Butler Saw
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Laxdale Hall
Absurd Person Singular
Marriage Lines
Unnatural Causes
Doris and Doreen
Station Jim
Outside Edge
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy