Prunella Scales
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Prunella Scales

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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.

Films Featuring Prunella Scales

Wolf

19946.1

The Shell Seekers

20076.9

Emma

19966.6

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

19876.6

Waltz of the Toreadors

19625.0

Hobson's Choice

19547.4

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

2006

Breaking the Code

19965.6

A Question of Attribution

19916.8

Stiff Upper Lips

19985.6

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

19925.2

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

2002

A Chorus of Disapproval

19895.4

Consuming Passions

19888.3

What the Butler Saw

19873.0

The Phone Call

20137.3

Fawlty Towers Revisited

20057.5

An Ideal Husband

19996.5

Second Best

19946.8

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

20148.0

Dirty Beasts

1990

Revolting Rhymes

1990

The Wicked Lady

19834.9

Run For Your Wife

20124.4

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

20098.4

The Littlest Horse Thieves

19766.9

An Audience with Alf Garnett

1997

Room at the Top

19586.9

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

20007.0

Beyond The Pale

19897.0

Doris and Doreen

19786.5

The Apple Cart

The Apple Cart

1975

What Every Woman Wants

19546.6

An Awfully Big Adventure

19956.5

Station Jim

20017.5

What the Pythons Did Next...

2007

Lord of Misrule

Lord of Misrule

19969.0

Natural Causes

19888.0

Fair Game

19944.8

Howards End

19927.0

Outside Edge

19828.0

Horrid Henry: The Movie

20115.2

The Boys from Brazil

19786.7

The Hound of the Baskervilles

19784.4

Mad Cows

19994.4

The Merry Wives of Windsor

19828.0

Laxdale Hall

Laxdale Hall

19537.0

My Friend Walter

19927.0

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

Home Cooking

1986

Sub Rosa

20145.0

When We Are Married

19877.0

Absurd Person Singular

19858.3

Slimming Down

1984

The Achurch Letters

1977

Bosses From Hell

1989

Communicators From Hell

1989

The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers

2025

The Crowded Day

19545.8

Singles

Singles

19836.0

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher

1994

Think

Think

2007

The Ring of Truth

The Ring of Truth

1973

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

20056.5