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