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.
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
22 June 1932
Death Day
27 October 2025
Place of Birth
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth, پرونلا اسکیلز
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FILMOGRAPHY
Wolf
1994-06-17Actor
The Shell Seekers
2007-10-18Actor
Emma
1996-10-02Actor
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987-12-23Actor
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962-04-12Actor
Hobson's Choice
1954-04-19Actor
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006-05-07Actor
Breaking the Code
1996-09-17Actor
A Question of Attribution
1991-10-20Actor
Stiff Upper Lips
1998-06-12Actor
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992-08-14Actor
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2002-03-13Actor
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989-08-18Actor
Consuming Passions
1988-04-06Actor
What the Butler Saw
1987-05-23Actor
The Phone Call
2013-10-20Actor
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005-12-01Actor
An Ideal Husband
1999-05-18Actor
Second Best
1994-09-30Actor
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014-05-24Actor
Dirty Beasts
1990-01-02Actor
Revolting Rhymes
1990-01-02Actor
The Wicked Lady
1983-04-21Actor
Run For Your Wife
2012-05-16Actor
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009-05-10Actor
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976-05-26Actor
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997-04-05
Room at the Top
1958-12-29Actor
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000-10-06
Beyond The Pale
1989-08-30Actor
Doris and Doreen
1978-12-16Actor
The Apple Cart
1975-01-19Actor
What Every Woman Wants
1954-06-10Actor
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995-05-11Actor
Station Jim
2001-12-30Actor
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007-01-01Actor
Lord of Misrule
1996-05-06Actor
Natural Causes
1988-09-11Actor
Fair Game
1994-06-11Actor
Howards End
1992-03-13Actor
Outside Edge
1982-12-19Actor
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011-07-29Actor
The Boys from Brazil
1978-10-05Actor
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978-08-01Actor
Mad Cows
1999-10-29Actor
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982-12-28Actor
Laxdale Hall
1953-04-01Actor
My Friend Walter
1992-04-24Actor
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990-12-26Actor
Home Cooking
1986-11-08Actor
Sub Rosa
2014-01-01Actor
When We Are Married
1987-12-26Actor
Absurd Person Singular
1985-01-01Actor
Slimming Down
1984-06-30Actor
The Achurch Letters
1977-01-12Actor
Bosses From Hell
1989-01-01
Communicators From Hell
1989-01-01
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025-05-31
The Crowded Day
1954-10-01Actor
Singles
1983-04-11Actor
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994-04-01Actor
Seven of One
1973-03-25
Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23Actor
Bergerac
1981-10-18Actor
Fawlty Towers
1975-09-19Actor
Marriage Lines
1961-05-14
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996-03-16
Great Canal Journeys
2014-03-10Actor
Mapp & Lucia
1985-04-14
Keeping Mum
1997-04-17Actor
Unnatural Causes
1986-11-08Actor
The Royal
2003-01-19Actor
Thompson
1988-11-10
Lucky Feller
1976-09-04
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996-04-02Actor
An Audience with...
1978-01-08Actor
Casualty
1986-09-06Actor
The World of Lee Evans
1995-06-02Actor
The Rector's Wife
1994-03-04Actor
Signs and Wonders
1995-01-16Actor
Silent Witness
1996-02-21Actor
Loose Women
1999-09-06Actor
Pride and Prejudice
1952-02-02Actor
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965-10-07Actor
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004-12-12Actor
Theatre Night
1985-09-15Actor
Never the Twain
1981-09-07Actor
Playhouse
1974-03-13Actor
BBC Play of the Month
1965-10-19Actor
Target
1977-09-09Actor
Dickens
2002-05-11Actor
After Henry
1988-01-04Actor
Look at the State We're In!
1995-05-20Actor
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