Prunella Scales
Born:6/22/1932
Place of Birth:Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 22 June 1932) is 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.
Filmography
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
20250.0
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
20148.0
Sub Rosa
20145.0
The Phone Call
20137.3
Run For Your Wife
20124.4
Horrid Henry: The Movie
20115.2
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
20098.0
The Shell Seekers
20076.9
What the Pythons Did Next...
20070.0
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
20060.0
Fawlty Towers Revisited
20055.0
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
20020.0
Station Jim
20017.0
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
20006.0
Mad Cows
19993.6
An Ideal Husband
19996.5
Stiff Upper Lips
19985.6
An Audience with Alf Garnett
19970.0
Emma
19966.6
Breaking the Code
19965.4
Lord of Misrule
19960.0
An Awfully Big Adventure
19956.6
Second Best
19946.7
Wolf
19946.1
Fair Game
19944.3
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
19925.0
My Friend Walter
19920.0
Howards End
19927.0
A Question of Attribution
19916.6
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
19900.0
Dirty Beasts
19900.0
Revolting Rhymes
19900.0
Beyond The Pale
19890.0
A Chorus of Disapproval
19895.3
Bosses From Hell
19890.0
Communicators From Hell
19890.0
Natural Causes
19880.0
Consuming Passions
19888.0
When We Are Married
19870.0
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
19876.6
What the Butler Saw
19871.0
Home Cooking
19860.0
Absurd Person Singular
19858.0
Slimming Down
19840.0
The Wicked Lady
19834.9
The Merry Wives of Windsor
19828.0
Outside Edge
19826.0
Doris and Doreen
19780.0
The Boys from Brazil
19786.7
The Hound of the Baskervilles
19784.4
The Achurch Letters
19770.0
The Littlest Horse Thieves
19766.8
The Apple Cart
19750.0
Waltz of the Toreadors
19624.8
Room at the Top
19586.9
The Crowded Day
19545.4
What Every Woman Wants
19546.3
Hobson's Choice
19547.3
Laxdale Hall
19536.0