
Prunella Scales
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth) is 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 Phone Call
2013
Run For Your Wife
2012
The Shell Seekers
2007
An Ideal Husband
1999
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
Breaking the Code
1996
Second Best
1994
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
My Friend Walter
1992
Howards End
1992
Dirty Beasts
1990
Revolting Rhymes
1990
Beyond The Pale
1989
Bosses From Hell
1989
Natural Causes
1988
Consuming Passions
1988
When We Are Married
1987
What the Butler Saw
1987
Home Cooking
1986
Slimming Down
1984
The Wicked Lady
1983
Doris and Doreen
1978
The Achurch Letters
1977
Room at the Top
1958
Hobson's Choice
1954
TV Shows
Dickens
2002
Loose Women
1999
Midsomer Murders
1997
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Silent Witness
1996
Signs and Wonders
1995
The Rector's Wife
1994
After Henry
1988
Mapp & Lucia
1985
Never the Twain
1981
An Audience with...
1978
Lucky Feller
1976
Fawlty Towers
1975
Seven of One
1973
Marriage Lines
1961
Pride and Prejudice
1952