Prunella Scales
Acting
3
Movies
21
TV Shows
24
Credits
About
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.
Prunella Scales
Acting
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.
Midsomer Murders
Silent Witness
Casualty
Agatha Christie's Marple
Bergerac
BBC Play of the Month
Loose Women
Playhouse
Dalziel and Pascoe
An Audience with...
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Fawlty Towers
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Never the Twain
ScreenPlay
Screen One
Target
Howards End
Wolf
Emma
After Henry
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Mapp & Lucia
Great Canal Journeys