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.
TV Shows(30)
Great Canal Journeys
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs Mackenzie
The Royal
Red Admiral
Looking for Victoria
Self / Victoria
Dickens
Elizabeth Dickens
Loose Women
Self
Midsomer Murders
Eleanor Bunsall
Keeping Mum
Marjorie
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Mrs. Duffel
Silent Witness
Anne Parker
Dalziel and Pascoe
Edith Disney
The World of Lee Evans
Mother
Signs and Wonders
Elizabeth Palmore
Look at the State We're In!
Storyteller
The Rector's Wife
Marjorie Richardson
Screen One
H.M.Q.
Thompson
After Henry
Sarah France
Casualty
Jocelyn Anderson
Unnatural Causes
Judith