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.
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
Emma
as Miss Bates
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
Station Jim
as Queen Victoria
Fair Game
as Marjorie
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sub Rosa
as Madame
Dirty Beasts
as Narrator
The Wicked Lady
as Lady Kingsclere
Communicators From Hell
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Page
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
Doris and Doreen
as Doris Rutter
Mad Cows
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
Consuming Passions
as Ethel
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Glynis
Second Best
as Margery
Outside Edge
as Miriam
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Estella Fitzjohn
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self
A Question of Attribution
as H.M.Q.
Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub
The Littlest Horse Thieves
as Mrs. Sandman
The Shell Seekers
as Dolly Keeling
When We Are Married
as Annie Parker
Laxdale Hall
as Morag McLeod
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
Home Cooking
as Judith
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Fleecy Flock
Lord of Misrule
as Shirley
The Phone Call
as Joan
Revolting Rhymes
as Narrator
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
as Grace
Bosses From Hell
The Crowded Day
as Customer
The Apple Cart
as Queen Jemima
Natural Causes
as Celia Bryce
What Every Woman Wants
as Mary
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Lady Moping
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
Absurd Person Singular
as Marion Brewster-Wright
The Achurch Letters
as Florence Farr
Beyond The Pale
as Milly
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
as Sarah
Slimming Down
as Mrs. Shrigley
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs Prentice
My Friend Walter
as Aunt Ellie
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
An Audience with Alf Garnett
The Ring of Truth
as Babs Pickard
Singles
as Gail
Think
as Customer