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.
11 TV shows
TV Shows
Midsomer Murders
ITV1
Agatha Christie's Marple
ITV1
Casualty
BBC One
Silent Witness
BBC One
BBC Play of the Month
BBC One
Playhouse
BBC Two
An Audience with...
ITV1
Dalziel & Pascoe
BBC One
Loose Women
ITV1
Fawlty Towers
BBC Two
Thirty-Minute Theatre
BBC Two
Other Credits
Bergerac, Great Canal Journeys, Keeping Mum, The Royal, Thompson, Lucky Feller, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, The World of Lee Evans, The Rector's Wife, Signs and Wonders, Pride and Prejudice, Theatre Night, Never the Twain, Target, Dickens, After Henry, Look at the State We're In!, Seven of One, Faces of Jim, Mapp & Lucia, Country Matters, Marriage Lines, Unnatural Causes