Prunella Scales
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.
100 acting credits
Acting · 100
Midsomer Murders
1997
Casualty
1986
Silent Witness
1996
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Bergerac
1981
Playhouse
1974
Loose Women
1999
An Audience with...
1978
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Fawlty Towers
1975
ScreenPlay
1986
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Screen One
1989
Never the Twain
1981
Target
1977
Theatre Night
1985
Unnatural Causes
1986
After Henry
1988
Wolf
1994
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
Howards End
1992
Great Canal Journeys
2014
Emma
1996
Country Matters
1972
Look at the State We're In!
1995
Mapp & Lucia
1985
Thompson
1988
The Boys from Brazil
1978
Seven of One
1973
Faces of Jim
1961
Dickens
2002
Keeping Mum
1997
Signs and Wonders
1995
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
Pride and Prejudice
1952
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
The Rector's Wife
1994
Marriage Lines
1961
The Wicked Lady
1983
The World of Lee Evans
1995
Hobson's Choice
1954
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Room at the Top
1958
The Royal
2003
Second Best
1994
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
Station Jim
2001
Lucky Feller
1976
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
Communicators From Hell
1989
Consuming Passions
1988
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Run For Your Wife
2012
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
Sub Rosa
2014
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Mad Cows
1999
Outside Edge
1982
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
Fair Game
1994
Laxdale Hall
1953
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Breaking the Code
1996
The Shell Seekers
2007
Natural Causes
1988
My Friend Walter
1992
The Crowded Day
1954
When We Are Married
1987
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
The Phone Call
2013
Home Cooking
1986
An Ideal Husband
1999
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2002
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
Absurd Person Singular
1985
Beyond The Pale
1989
A Question of Attribution
1991
Bosses From Hell
1989
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
The Achurch Letters
1977
What Every Woman Wants
1954
Dirty Beasts
1990
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
Doris and Doreen
1978
The Apple Cart
1975
Lord of Misrule
1996
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
Slimming Down
1984
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006
Revolting Rhymes
1990
What the Butler Saw
1987
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997
The Ring of Truth
1973
Singles
1983
Think
2007