Prunella Scales
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.
Prunella Scales — movies and TV shows
7.5SeriesMidsomer Murders
1997
6.2SeriesCasualty
1986
7.6SeriesSilent Witness
1996
3.4SeriesLoose Women
1999
5.2SeriesBBC Play of the Month
1965
7.8SeriesAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
7.0SeriesBergerac
1981
4.2SeriesThirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.0SeriesPlayhouse
1974
6.4SeriesDalziel and Pascoe
1996
5.3SeriesAn Audience with...
1978
6.0SeriesThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
6.0SeriesScreenPlay
1986
8.3SeriesFawlty Towers
1975
7.2SeriesScreen One
1989
7.0SeriesTarget
1977
6.7FilmThe Boys from Brazil
1978
7.0SeriesNever the Twain
1981
7.0FilmHowards End
1992
6.1FilmWolf
1994
SeriesTheatre Night
1985
6.9FilmRoom at the Top
1958
8.8SeriesGreat Canal Journeys
2014
5.2FilmFreddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
6.3SeriesUnnatural Causes
1986
6.7SeriesAfter Henry
1988
6.3SeriesDennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
4.6SeriesCountry Matters
1972
6.2SeriesMapp & Lucia
1985
7.4FilmHobson's Choice
1954
5.2FilmHorrid Henry: The Movie
2011
6.6FilmEmma
1996
7.0SeriesMarriage Lines
1961
5.4FilmA Chorus of Disapproval
1989
6.7FilmSecond Best
1994
SeriesPickersgill People
1978
7.3SeriesSeven of One
1973
SeriesKeeping Mum
1997
9.0SeriesThe Rector's Wife
1994
5.0FilmSub Rosa
2014
6.5FilmAn Awfully Big Adventure
1995
4.9FilmThe Wicked Lady
1983
7.0SeriesThe World of Lee Evans
1995
7.0SeriesDickens
2002
8.3FilmConsuming Passions
1988
9.0SeriesPride and Prejudice
1952
7.0SeriesSigns and Wonders
1995
6.6FilmThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
5.0FilmFair Game
1994
6.9FilmThe Shell Seekers
2007
6.8FilmA Question of Attribution
1991
FilmHome Cooking
1986
4.4FilmThe Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
5.6FilmStiff Upper Lips
1998
6.6FilmWhat Every Woman Wants
1954
8.4FilmFawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
8.0FilmThe Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
6.9FilmThe Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
4.4FilmRun For Your Wife
2012
5.6FilmBreaking the Code
1996