Prunella Scales

Prunella Scalesborn 1932

usually

Actor

Popularity

1.1

Famous

Biography

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) 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.

Credits

Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy
Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy

2025

Comedy • Documentary

0.5
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

2014

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

8
0.3
Sub Rosa
Sub Rosa

2014

as Madame

5
0.7
The Phone Call
The Phone Call

2013

Drama

as Joan

7.3
0.7
Run For Your Wife
Run For Your Wife

2012

Comedy

as Woman in Pub

4.4
0.7
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Horrid Henry: The Movie

2011

Adventure • Comedy • Family

as Great Aunt Greta

5.2
0.8
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

2009

Comedy • Documentary

as Self / Sybil Fawlty

8
0.3
The Shell Seekers
The Shell Seekers

2007

Drama • Romance

as Dolly Keeling

6.9
0.3
What the Pythons Did Next...
What the Pythons Did Next...

2007

as Self

0.5
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

2006

Comedy • Drama

as Lady Moping

0.1
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Fawlty Towers Revisited

2005

Documentary • TV Movie

as Herself

0.1
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

2002

Drama • TV Movie

as Grace

0.1
Station Jim
Station Jim

2001

Drama • Family • Romance

as Queen Victoria

7
0.5
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
The Ghost of Greville Lodge

2000

Mystery

6
0.2
Mad Cows
Mad Cows

1999

Comedy

as Dr. Minny Stinkler

3.6
0.4
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband

1999

Comedy

as Lady Markby

6.5
0.1
Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips

1998

Comedy

as Aunt Agnes

5.6
0.6
An Audience with Alf Garnett
An Audience with Alf Garnett

1997

Comedy

0.1
Emma
Emma

1996

Comedy • Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Miss Bates

6.6
2.4
Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code

1996

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Sara Turing

5.4
0.5
Lord of Misrule
Lord of Misrule

1996

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Shirley

0.3
An Awfully Big Adventure
An Awfully Big Adventure

1995

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Rose

6.7
0.8
Second Best
Second Best

1994

Drama • Family

as Margery

6.7
0.7
Wolf
Wolf

1994

Drama • Horror

as Maude Waggins

6.1
2
Fair Game
Fair Game

1994

Drama • TV Movie

as Marjorie

3.5
0.5
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
Freddie as F.R.O.7.

1992

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction

as Queen (voice)

5
0.4
My Friend Walter
My Friend Walter

1992

Adventure • Family • Fantasy • TV Movie

as Aunt Ellie

0.2
Howards End
Howards End

1992

Drama • Romance

as Aunt Juley

7
2.2
A Question of Attribution
A Question of Attribution

1991

Drama • TV Movie

as H.M.Q.

6.6
0.3
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

Family

as Fleecy Flock

0.2
Dirty Beasts
Dirty Beasts

1990

Animation • Family

as Narrator

0.1
Revolting Rhymes
Revolting Rhymes

1990

Animation • Family

as Narrator

0
Beyond The Pale
Beyond The Pale

1989

Drama • TV Movie

as Milly

0.2
A Chorus of Disapproval
A Chorus of Disapproval

1989

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Hannah Ap Llewellyn

5.2
0.3
Bosses From Hell
Bosses From Hell

1989

0.2
Communicators From Hell
Communicators From Hell

1989

0.2
Natural Causes
Natural Causes

1988

Comedy • TV Movie

as Celia Bryce

0.1
Consuming Passions
Consuming Passions

1988

Comedy

as Ethel

8
0.3
When We Are Married
When We Are Married

1987

Comedy

as Annie Parker

0.2
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

1987

Drama • Romance

as Moira O'Neill

6.6
0.7
What the Butler Saw
What the Butler Saw

1987

as Mrs Prentice

1
0.1
Home Cooking
Home Cooking

1986

Drama • TV Movie

as Judith

0.2
Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular

1985

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Marion Brewster-Wright

8
0.2
Slimming Down
Slimming Down

1984

as Mrs. Shrigley

0.1
The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady

1983

Adventure • Drama

as Lady Kingsclere

4.9
0.8
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor

1982

Comedy • TV Movie

as Mistress Page

8
0.5
Outside Edge
Outside Edge

1982

Comedy

as Miriam

6
0.2
Doris and Doreen
Doris and Doreen

1978

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Doris Rutter

0.2
The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil

1978

Drama • Mystery • Science Fiction

as Mrs. Harrington

6.7
1.6
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles

1978

Comedy • Crime • Mystery

as Glynis

4.4
0.8
The Achurch Letters
The Achurch Letters

1977

as Florence Farr

0.1
The Littlest Horse Thieves
The Littlest Horse Thieves

1976

Drama • Family

as Mrs. Sandman

6.8
0.4
The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart

1975

as Queen Jemima

0.2
Waltz of the Toreadors
Waltz of the Toreadors

1962

Comedy

as Estella Fitzjohn

4.8
0.4
Room at the Top
Room at the Top

1958

Drama • Romance

as Council Office Worker (uncredited)

6.9
0.8
What Every Woman Wants
What Every Woman Wants

1954

Drama

as Mary

6.3
0.4
Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice

1954

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Vicky Hobson

7.3
1
Laxdale Hall
Laxdale Hall

1953

Comedy • Romance

as Morag McLeod

6
0.2

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