Prunella Scales
ActingAlso Known As
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth, پرونلا اسکیلز
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.
Movies
(64 total)
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
Emma
as Miss Bates
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
The Phone Call
as Joan
Second Best
as Margery
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Glynis
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
The Wicked Lady
as Lady Kingsclere
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
The Littlest Horse Thieves
as Mrs. Sandman
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Estella Fitzjohn
Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes
Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub
TV Shows
(33 total)
Fawlty Towers
as Sybil Fawlty
Midsomer Murders
as Eleanor Bunsall
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs Mackenzie
Silent Witness
as Anne Parker
Casualty
as Jocelyn Anderson
Bergerac
as Gloria Gibbins
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Mrs. Duffel
Loose Women
as Self
The Royal
as Red Admiral
Never the Twain
as Susan Peel
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Marie
BBC Play of the Month
as Queen Jemima
Mapp & Lucia
as Miss Elizabeth Mapp
Great Canal Journeys
as Self
Seven of One
as Marion Joyce
An Audience with...
as Self
The World of Lee Evans
as Mother
Target
as Diana Blake