Prunella Scales
Known for ActingBorn 1932-06-22Died 2025-10-27Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
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.Read more
Movies & web series
Lord of Misrule
★ 9.0View details →
Lord of Misrule
1996 · Movie
★ 8.8View details →
Great Canal Journeys
2014 · Series
★ 9.0View details →
The Rector's Wife
1994 · Series
★ 9.0View details →
Pride and Prejudice
1952 · Series
★ 8.4View details →
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · Movie
★ 8.3View details →
Consuming Passions
1988 · Movie
★ 8.3View details →
Absurd Person Singular
1985 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Movie
★ 8.3View details →
Fawlty Towers
1975 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
Natural Causes
1988 · Movie
★ 7.8View details →
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
★ 7.8View details →
The Royal
2003 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
Outside Edge
1982 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982 · Movie
Station Jim
★ 7.5View details →
Station Jim
2001 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
★ 7.5View details →
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
★ 7.3View details →
The Phone Call
2013 · Movie
★ 7.2View details →
Screen One
1989 · Series
★ 7.3View details →
Seven of One
1973 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Dickens
2002 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000 · Movie
★ 6.9View details →
The Shell Seekers
2007 · Movie
★ 7.2View details →
Lucky Feller
1976 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
The World of Lee Evans
1995 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Signs and Wonders
1995 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
My Friend Walter
1992 · Movie
★ 7.4View details →
Hobson's Choice
1954 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Howards End
1992 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Beyond The Pale
1989 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
When We Are Married
1987 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Target
1977 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Never the Twain
1981 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Playhouse
1974 · Series
★ 6.8View details →
A Question of Attribution
1991 · Movie
★ 6.8View details →
Second Best
1994 · Movie
★ 6.9View details →
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Marriage Lines
1961 · Series
★ 6.6View details →
Emma
1996 · Movie
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
★ 6.5View details →
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · Movie
Laxdale Hall
★ 7.0View details →
Laxdale Hall
1953 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Bergerac
1981 · Series
★ 6.5View details →
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
The Boys from Brazil
1978 · Movie
★ 6.9View details →
Room at the Top
1958 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987 · Movie
★ 6.4View details →
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series