Prunella Scales
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Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is 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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Acted in
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
Great Canal Journeys
2014
as Self
Sub Rosa
2014
as Madame
The Phone Call
2013
as Joan
Run For Your Wife
2012
as Woman in Pub
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
as Great Aunt Greta
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
The Shell Seekers
2007
as Dolly Keeling
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
as Self
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006
as Lady Moping
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
as Herself
The Royal
2003
as Red Admiral
Dickens
2002
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2002
as Grace
Station Jim
2001
as Queen Victoria
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
Mad Cows
1999
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
An Ideal Husband
1999
as Lady Markby
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
as Aunt Agnes
Keeping Mum
1997
as Marjorie
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Eleanor Bunsall
Emma
1996
as Miss Bates
Breaking the Code
1996
as Sara Turing
Lord of Misrule
1996
Lord of Misrule
1996
as Shirley
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
as Mrs. Duffel
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Silent Witness
1996
as Anne Parker
The World of Lee Evans
1995
as Mother
Look at the State We're In!
1995
as Storyteller
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
as Rose
Signs and Wonders
1995
as Elizabeth Palmore
Second Best
1994
as Margery
Wolf
1994
as Maude Waggins
Fair Game
1994
as Marjorie
The Rector's Wife
1994
as Marjorie Richardson
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
as Queen (voice)
My Friend Walter
1992
as Aunt Ellie
Howards End
1992
as Aunt Juley
A Question of Attribution
1991
as H.M.Q.
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Fleecy Flock
Dirty Beasts
1990
as Narrator
Revolting Rhymes
1990
as Narrator
Beyond The Pale
1989
as Milly
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
Thompson
1988
Natural Causes
1988
as Celia Bryce
Consuming Passions
1988
as Ethel
After Henry
1988
When We Are Married
1987
as Annie Parker
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
as Moira O'Neill
What the Butler Saw
1987
as Mrs Prentice
Home Cooking
1986
as Judith
Unnatural Causes
1986
as Judith
Casualty
1986
as Jocelyn Anderson
Absurd Person Singular
1985
as Marion Brewster-Wright
Mapp & Lucia
1985
The Wicked Lady
1983
as Lady Kingsclere
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
as Mistress Page
Outside Edge
1982
as Miriam
Bergerac
1981
as Gloria Gibbins
Doris and Doreen
1978
as Doris Rutter
BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Mrs. Harrington
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
as Glynis
Target
1977
Lucky Feller
1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
as Mrs. Sandman
Fawlty Towers
1975
as Sybil Fawlty
The Apple Cart
1975
as Queen Jemima
Seven of One
1973
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Marie
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
as Estella Fitzjohn
Marriage Lines
1961
Room at the Top
1959
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
What Every Woman Wants
1954
as Mary
Hobson's Choice
1954
as Vicky Hobson
Laxdale Hall
1953
as Morag McLeod
Pride and Prejudice
1952
as Lydia Bennet