Prunella Scales

Personal Info

Birthday

June 22, 1932

(93 years old)

Place of Birth

Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

Also Known As

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales

Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth

پرونلا اسکیلز

Prunella Scales

Biography

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth) 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

Midsomer Murders

Silent Witness

Agatha Christie's Marple

Bergerac

Casualty

BBC Play of the Month

Playhouse

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Filmography

2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
Sub Rosa
as Madame
2013
The Phone Call
as Joan
2012
Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub
2011
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
2007
The Shell Seekers
as Dolly Keeling
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self
2006
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Lady Moping
2005
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
2002
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
as Grace
2001
Station Jim
as Queen Victoria
1999
Mad Cows
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
1998
Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes
1996
Emma
as Miss Bates
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
Lord of Misrule
as Shirley
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
1994
Second Best
as Margery
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
Fair Game
as Marjorie
1992
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
My Friend Walter
as Aunt Ellie
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
1991
A Question of Attribution
as H.M.Q.
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Fleecy Flock
Dirty Beasts
as Narrator
Revolting Rhymes
as Narrator
1989
Beyond The Pale
as Milly
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
1988
Natural Causes
as Celia Bryce
Consuming Passions
as Ethel
1987
When We Are Married
as Annie Parker
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs Prentice
1986
Home Cooking
as Judith
1985
Absurd Person Singular
as Marion Brewster-Wright
1984
Slimming Down
as Mrs. Shrigley
1983
The Wicked Lady
as Lady Kingsclere
1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Page
Outside Edge
as Miriam
1978
Doris and Doreen
as Doris Rutter
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Glynis
1977
The Achurch Letters
as Florence Farr
1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves
as Mrs. Sandman
1975
The Apple Cart
as Queen Jemima
1962
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Estella Fitzjohn
1958
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
1954
What Every Woman Wants
as Mary
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
1953
Laxdale Hall
as Morag McLeod