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.
Movies
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Sub Rosa
Madame
The Phone Call
Joan
Run For Your Wife
Woman in Pub
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Great Aunt Greta
The Shell Seekers
Dolly Keeling
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Lady Moping
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Grace
Station Jim
Queen Victoria
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Mad Cows
Dr. Minny Stinkler
An Ideal Husband
Lady Markby
Stiff Upper Lips
Aunt Agnes
An Audience with Alf Garnett
Emma
Miss Bates
Breaking the Code
Sara Turing
Lord of Misrule
Shirley
An Awfully Big Adventure
Rose
Second Best
Margery
Wolf
Maude Waggins
Fair Game
Marjorie
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Queen (voice)
My Friend Walter
Aunt Ellie
Howards End
Aunt Juley
A Question of Attribution
H.M.Q.
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Fleecy Flock
Dirty Beasts
Narrator
Revolting Rhymes
Narrator
Beyond The Pale
Milly
A Chorus of Disapproval
Hannah Ap Llewellyn
Bosses From Hell
Communicators From Hell
Natural Causes
Celia Bryce
Consuming Passions
Ethel
When We Are Married
Annie Parker
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Moira O'Neill
What the Butler Saw
Mrs Prentice
Home Cooking
Judith
Absurd Person Singular
Marion Brewster-Wright
Slimming Down
Mrs. Shrigley
The Wicked Lady
Lady Kingsclere
Singles
Gail
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Page
Outside Edge
Miriam
Doris and Doreen
Doris Rutter
The Boys from Brazil
Mrs. Harrington
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Glynis
The Achurch Letters
Florence Farr
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Mrs. Sandman
The Apple Cart
Queen Jemima
Waltz of the Toreadors
Estella Fitzjohn
Room at the Top
Council Office Worker (uncredited)
The Crowded Day
Customer
What Every Woman Wants
Mary
Hobson's Choice
Vicky Hobson
Laxdale Hall
Morag McLeod
TV Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs Mackenzie
1 Episode
The Royal
Red Admiral
1 Episode
Dickens
Elizabeth Dickens
1 Episode
Keeping Mum
Marjorie
1 Episode
Midsomer Murders
Eleanor Bunsall
1 Episode
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Mrs. Duffel
1 Episode
Dalziel & Pascoe
1 Episode
Silent Witness
Anne Parker
2 Episodes
The World of Lee Evans
Mother
1 Episode
Look at the State We're In!
Storyteller
1 Episode
Signs and Wonders
Elizabeth Palmore
4 Episodes
The Rector's Wife
Marjorie Richardson
4 Episodes
Thompson
1 Episode
After Henry
Sarah France
39 Episodes
Unnatural Causes
Judith
1 Episode
Casualty
Jocelyn Anderson
1 Episode
Theatre Night
Mrs. Prentice
1 Episode
Mapp & Lucia
10 Episodes
Bergerac
Gloria Gibbins
1 Episode
Never the Twain
Susan Peel
1 Episode
Target
Diana Blake
1 Episode
Lucky Feller
1 Episode
Fawlty Towers
Sybil Fawlty
12 Episodes
Playhouse
Florence Farr
1 Episode
Seven of One
1 Episode
BBC Play of the Month
Queen Jemima
1 Episode
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Marie
1 Episode
Marriage Lines
43 Episodes
Pride and Prejudice
Lydia Bennet
6 Episodes