Cast
Prunella Scales
Acting
Cast
Prunella Scales
Known for
Acting
Born
1932-06-22
From
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Died
2025-10-27
Also 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.
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
★4.8
MOVIE1994
Fair Game
as Marjorie
★6.6
MOVIE1996
Emma
as Miss Bates
★6.1
MOVIE1994
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
★5.2
MOVIE2011
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
★8.3
MOVIE1988
Consuming Passions
as Ethel
MOVIE1986
Home Cooking
as Judith
★5.0
MOVIE2014
Sub Rosa
as Madame
★6.7
MOVIE1978
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
★8.0
MOVIE1988
Natural Causes
as Celia Bryce
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Second Best
as Margery
MOVIE2025
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
MOVIE1990
Dirty Beasts
as Narrator
★6.9
MOVIE1958
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1983
The Wicked Lady
as Lady Kingsclere
★7.4
MOVIE1954
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
MOVIE1989
Bosses From Hell
★6.5
MOVIE2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1999
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
★5.3
MOVIE1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
MOVIE1990
Revolting Rhymes
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1987
When We Are Married
as Annie Parker
MOVIE1975
The Apple Cart
as Queen Jemima
★8.4
MOVIE2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
MOVIE2007
Think
as Customer
★9.0
MOVIE1996
Lord of Misrule
as Shirley
★6.5
MOVIE1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
MOVIE1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE2005
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
★8.0
MOVIE1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Page
★5.6
MOVIE1998
Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes
★5.4
MOVIE1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
MOVIE1973
The Ring of Truth
as Babs Pickard
MOVIE1989
Communicators From Hell
★4.4
MOVIE2012
Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub
★7.3
MOVIE2013
The Phone Call
as Joan
★5.8
MOVIE1954
The Crowded Day
as Customer
★4.4
MOVIE1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Glynis
MOVIE2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1978
Doris and Doreen
as Doris Rutter
MOVIE1977
The Achurch Letters
as Florence Farr
★5.5
MOVIE1996
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
MOVIE1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Fleecy Flock
★8.0
MOVIE2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE1991
A Question of Attribution
as H.M.Q.
★7.5
MOVIE2001
Station Jim
as Queen Victoria
★6.9
MOVIE2007
The Shell Seekers
as Dolly Keeling
★7.0
MOVIE1992
My Friend Walter
as Aunt Ellie
★5.0
MOVIE1962
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Estella Fitzjohn
★6.6
MOVIE1987
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
★8.3
MOVIE1985
Absurd Person Singular
as Marion Brewster-Wright
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Laxdale Hall
as Morag McLeod
★6.5
MOVIE1954
What Every Woman Wants
as Mary
★8.0
MOVIE1982
Outside Edge
as Miriam
MOVIE2006
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Lady Moping
MOVIE2002
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
as Grace
★6.9
MOVIE1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves
as Mrs. Sandman
★4.4
MOVIE1999
Mad Cows
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
★7.0
MOVIE2000
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
as Sarah
★3.0
MOVIE1987
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs Prentice
MOVIE1984
Slimming Down
as Mrs. Shrigley
★7.0
MOVIE1989
Beyond The Pale
as Milly
★6.0
MOVIE1983
Singles
as Gail
MOVIE1997