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Prunella Scales

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK, 1932-06-22

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Laxdale Hall	Morag McLeod	60
2	1954	Hobson's Choice	Vicky Hobson	73
3	1954	What Every Woman Wants	Mary	63
4	1958	Room at the Top	Council Office Worker (uncredited)	69
5	1962	Waltz of the Toreadors	Estella Fitzjohn	48
6	1975	The Apple Cart	Queen Jemima	0
7	1976	The Littlest Horse Thieves	Mrs. Sandman	68
8	1977	The Achurch Letters	Florence Farr	0
9	1978	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Glynis	44
10	1978	The Boys from Brazil	Mrs. Harrington	67
11	1978	Doris and Doreen	Doris Rutter	0
12	1982	Outside Edge	Miriam	60
13	1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Mistress Page	80
14	1983	The Wicked Lady	Lady Kingsclere	49
15	1984	Slimming Down	Mrs. Shrigley	0
16	1985	Absurd Person Singular	Marion Brewster-Wright	80
17	1986	Home Cooking	Judith	0
18	1987	What the Butler Saw	Mrs Prentice	10
19	1987	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	Moira O'Neill	66
20	1987	When We Are Married	Annie Parker	0
21	1988	Consuming Passions	Ethel	80
22	1988	Natural Causes	Celia Bryce	0
23	1989	Bosses From Hell		0
24	1989	Communicators From Hell		0
25	1989	A Chorus of Disapproval	Hannah Ap Llewellyn	52
26	1989	Beyond The Pale	Milly	0
27	1990	Dirty Beasts	Narrator	0
28	1990	Revolting Rhymes	Narrator	0
29	1990	The Tale of Little Pig Robinson	Fleecy Flock	0
30	1991	A Question of Attribution	H.M.Q.	66
31	1992	Howards End	Aunt Juley	70
32	1992	My Friend Walter	Aunt Ellie	0
33	1992	Freddie as F.R.O.7.	Queen (voice)	50
34	1994	Fair Game	Marjorie	35
35	1994	Wolf	Maude Waggins	61
36	1994	Second Best	Margery	67
37	1995	An Awfully Big Adventure	Rose	67
38	1996	Lord of Misrule	Shirley	0
39	1996	Breaking the Code	Sara Turing	54
40	1996	Emma	Miss Bates	66
41	1997	An Audience with Alf Garnett		0
42	1998	Stiff Upper Lips	Aunt Agnes	56
43	1999	An Ideal Husband	Lady Markby	65
44	1999	Mad Cows	Dr. Minny Stinkler	36
45	2000	The Ghost of Greville Lodge		60
46	2001	Station Jim	Queen Victoria	70
47	2002	A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg	Grace	0
48	2005	Fawlty Towers Revisited	Herself	0
49	2006	Mr. Loveday's Little Outing	Lady Moping	0
50	2007	What the Pythons Did Next...	Self	0
51	2007	The Shell Seekers	Dolly Keeling	69
52	2009	Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened	Self / Sybil Fawlty	80
53	2011	Horrid Henry: The Movie	Great Aunt Greta	52
54	2012	Run For Your Wife	Woman in Pub	44
55	2013	The Phone Call	Joan	73
56	2014	Sub Rosa	Madame	50
57	2014	50 Years of BBC Two Comedy	Self	80
58	2025	Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Pride and Prejudice	Lydia Bennet	0
2	1961	Marriage Lines		50
3	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Marie	38
4	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Queen Jemima	50
5	1973	Seven of One		70
6	1974	Playhouse	Florence Farr	70
7	1975	Fawlty Towers	Sybil Fawlty	83
8	1976	Lucky Feller		72
9	1977	Target		65
10	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
11	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Mistress Page	60
12	1981	Never the Twain	Susan Peel	66
13	1981	Bergerac	Gloria Gibbins	67
14	1985	Mapp & Lucia		60
15	1985	Theatre Night	Mrs. Prentice	0
16	1986	Casualty	Jocelyn Anderson	61
17	1986	Unnatural Causes	Judith	55
18	1988	After Henry		57
19	1988	Thompson		10
20	1994	The Rector's Wife	Marjorie Richardson	80
21	1995	Signs and Wonders	Elizabeth Palmore	0
22	1995	Look at the State We're In!	Storyteller	0
23	1995	The World of Lee Evans	Mother	60
24	1996	Silent Witness	Anne Parker	76
25	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
26	1996	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	Mrs. Duffel	63
27	1997	Midsomer Murders	Eleanor Bunsall	75
28	1997	Keeping Mum	Marjorie	0
29	1999	Loose Women	Self	32
30	2002	Dickens		0
31	2003	The Royal	Red Admiral	76
32	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Mrs Mackenzie	77
33	2014	Great Canal Journeys	Self	88