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.

Cast

The Shell Seekers

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Waltz of the Toreadors

Estella Fitzjohn

Hobson's Choice

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

Breaking the Code

A Question of Attribution

Stiff Upper Lips

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

A Chorus of Disapproval

Hannah Ap Llewellyn

Consuming Passions

What the Butler Saw

Fawlty Towers Revisited

An Ideal Husband

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Revolting Rhymes

The Wicked Lady

Lady Kingsclere

Run For Your Wife

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Self / Sybil Fawlty

The Littlest Horse Thieves

An Audience with Alf Garnett

Room at the Top

Council Office Worker (uncredited)

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

Beyond The Pale

Doris and Doreen

What Every Woman Wants

An Awfully Big Adventure

What the Pythons Did Next...

Lord of Misrule

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Great Aunt Greta

The Boys from Brazil

Mrs. Harrington

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Dr. Minny Stinkler

The Merry Wives of Windsor

My Friend Walter

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

When We Are Married

Absurd Person Singular

Marion Brewster-Wright

The Achurch Letters

Bosses From Hell

Communicators From Hell

The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers

The Crowded Day