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