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Prunella Scales

Acting · Born June 22, 1932 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

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 shows

  • Midsomer Murders1997
  • Casualty1986
  • Loose Women1999
  • Silent Witness1996
  • BBC Play of the Month1965
  • Agatha Christie's Marple2004
  • Thirty-Minute Theatre1965
  • Bergerac1981
  • An Audience with...1978
  • Dalziel and Pascoe1996
  • Playhouse1974
  • ScreenPlay1986
  • The BBC Television Shakespeare1978
  • Fawlty Towers1975
  • Screen One1989
  • Never the Twain1981
  • Target1977
  • Great Canal Journeys2014
  • After Henry1988
  • Dennis the Menace and Gnasher1996
  • Howards End1992
  • Marriage Lines1961
  • Wolf1994
  • Country Matters1972