Actor
Prunella Scales
94 years · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · 57 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 57
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025 · Actor
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Self
Sub Rosa
2014 · Madame
The Phone Call
2013 · Joan
On Kanopy
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Woman in Pub
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011 · Great Aunt Greta
On Tubi TV
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · Self / Sybil Fawlty
The Shell Seekers
2007 · Dolly Keeling
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007 · Self
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006 · Lady Moping
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005 · Herself
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2002 · Grace
Station Jim
2001 · Queen Victoria
On Hoopla
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000 · Sarah
Mad Cows
1999 · Dr. Minny Stinkler
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Lady Markby
Stiff Upper Lips
1998 · Aunt Agnes
On Hoopla
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997 · Actor
Emma
1996 · Miss Bates
On Plex
Breaking the Code
1996 · Sara Turing
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Rose
Second Best
1994 · Margery
On Plex
Wolf
1994 · Maude Waggins
On Xumo Play
Fair Game
1994 · Marjorie