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.

Movies with Prunella Scales

• Wolf 1994 · ★ 6.1
• Howards End 1992 · ★ 7.0
• The Boys from Brazil 1978 · ★ 6.7
• Hobson's Choice 1954 · ★ 7.4
• Room at the Top 1958 · ★ 6.9
• Emma 1996 · ★ 6.6
• Horrid Henry: The Movie 2011 · ★ 5.2
• The Phone Call 2013 · ★ 7.3
• An Awfully Big Adventure 1995 · ★ 6.5
• Second Best 1994 · ★ 6.7
• Freddie As F.R.O.7. 1992 · ★ 5.2
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 1987 · ★ 6.6
• The Hound of the Baskervilles 1978 · ★ 4.4
• A Chorus of Disapproval 1989 · ★ 5.4
• The Wicked Lady 1983 · ★ 4.9
• Breaking the Code 1996 · ★ 5.6
• Waltz of the Toreadors 1962 · ★ 5.0
• The Littlest Horse Thieves 1976 · ★ 6.9
• Stiff Upper Lips 1998 · ★ 5.6
• Run For Your Wife 2012 · ★ 4.4
• Mad Cows 1999 · ★ 4.4
• A Question of Attribution 1991 · ★ 6.8
• The Crowded Day 1954 · ★ 5.8
• An Ideal Husband 1999 · ★ 6.5
• The Shell Seekers 2007 · ★ 6.9
• The Ghost of Greville Lodge 2000 · ★ 7.0
• Fair Game 1994 · ★ 5.0
• Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened 2009 · ★ 8.4
• What Every Woman Wants 1954 · ★ 6.6
• Sub Rosa 2014 · ★ 5.0
• Consuming Passions 1988 · ★ 8.3
• What the Butler Saw 1987 · ★ 3.0
• Fawlty Towers Revisited 2005 · ★ 8.0
• 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy 2014 · ★ 8.0
• The Merry Wives of Windsor 1982 · ★ 8.0
• Laxdale Hall 1953 · ★ 7.0
• Absurd Person Singular 1985 · ★ 8.3
• Doris and Doreen 1978 · ★ 6.5
• Station Jim 2001 · ★ 7.5
• Outside Edge 1982 · ★ 8.0