Acting
Prunella Scales
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.
Filmography
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Film · 2025
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Film · 2014
Sub Rosa
Film · 2014
Great Canal Journeys
Series · 2014
The Phone Call
Film · 2013
Run For Your Wife
Film · 2012
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Film · 2011
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Film · 2009
The Shell Seekers
Film · 2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
Film · 2007
Think
Film · 2007
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Film · 2006
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Film · 2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Film · 2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Series · 2004
The Royal
Series · 2003
Looking for Victoria
Series · 2003
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Film · 2002
Dickens
Series · 2002
Station Jim
Film · 2001
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Film · 2000
An Ideal Husband
Film · 1999
Mad Cows
Film · 1999
Loose Women
Series · 1999
Stiff Upper Lips
Film · 1998
An Audience with Alf Garnett
Film · 1997
Midsomer Murders
Series · 1997
Keeping Mum
Series · 1997
Emma
Film · 1996
Breaking the Code
Film · 1996
Lord of Misrule
Film · 1996
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Series · 1996
Silent Witness
Series · 1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
Series · 1996
An Awfully Big Adventure
Film · 1995
The World of Lee Evans
Series · 1995
Signs and Wonders
Series · 1995
Look at the State We're In!
Series · 1995
Searching
Series · 1995
Wolf
Film · 1994
Second Best
Film · 1994
Fair Game
Film · 1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Film · 1994
The Rector's Wife
Series · 1994
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Film · 1992
Howards End
Film · 1992
My Friend Walter
Film · 1992
A Question of Attribution
Film · 1991
Dirty Beasts
Film · 1990
Revolting Rhymes
Film · 1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Film · 1990
A Chorus of Disapproval
Film · 1989
Beyond The Pale
Film · 1989
Bosses From Hell
Film · 1989
Communicators From Hell
Film · 1989
Screen One
Series · 1989
Consuming Passions
Film · 1988
Natural Causes
Film · 1988
Thompson
Series · 1988
After Henry
Series · 1988
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Film · 1987
What the Butler Saw
Film · 1987
When We Are Married
Film · 1987
Home Cooking
Film · 1986
Casualty
Series · 1986
Unnatural Causes
Series · 1986
ScreenPlay
Series · 1986
Absurd Person Singular
Film · 1985
Theatre Night
Series · 1985
Mapp & Lucia
Series · 1985
Slimming Down
Film · 1984
Weekend Playhouse
Series · 1984
The Wicked Lady
Film · 1983
Singles
Film · 1983
Outside Edge
Film · 1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Film · 1982
S.W.A.L.K.
Series · 1982
Bergerac
Series · 1981
Never the Twain
Series · 1981
Doris and Doreen
Film · 1978
The Boys from Brazil
Film · 1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Film · 1978
An Audience with...
Series · 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Series · 1978
Pickersgill People
Series · 1978
The Achurch Letters
Film · 1977
Target
Series · 1977
Mr Big
Series · 1977
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Film · 1976
The Apple Cart
Film · 1975
Fawlty Towers
Series · 1975
Playhouse
Series · 1974
The Ring of Truth
Film · 1973
Seven of One
Series · 1973
Country Matters
Series · 1972
Film '72
Series · 1971
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Series · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
Series · 1965
Waltz of the Toreadors
Film · 1962
Faces of Jim
Series · 1961
Marriage Lines
Series · 1961
Room at the Top
Film · 1958
Hobson's Choice
Film · 1954
What Every Woman Wants
Film · 1954
The Crowded Day
Film · 1954
Laxdale Hall
Film · 1953
Pride and Prejudice
Series · 1952