PRUNELLA SCALES
ACTING
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 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..
Wolf 1994
The Shell Seekers 2007
Emma 1996
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 1987
Waltz of the Toreadors 1962
Hobson's Choice 1954
Breaking the Code 1996
Stiff Upper Lips 1998
Freddie as F.R.O.7. 1992
A Chorus of Disapproval 1989
Consuming Passions 1988
The Phone Call 2013
Second Best 1994
The Wicked Lady 1983
Run For Your Wife 2012
The Littlest Horse Thieves 1976
Room at the Top 1958
What Every Woman Wants 1954
An Awfully Big Adventure 1995
Fair Game 1994
Howards End 1992
Horrid Henry: The Movie 2011
The Boys from Brazil 1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1978
Sub Rosa 2014
Midsomer Murders 1997
Bergerac 1981
Fawlty Towers 1975
The Royal 2003
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher 1996
Casualty 1986
The Rector's Wife 1994
Signs and Wonders 1995
Silent Witness 1996
Agatha Christie's Marple 2004
The BBC Television Shakespeare 1978
Never the Twain 1981