Biography
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 narrowboa…
Career works
103
Movies
64
Series
39
Career average
6.5/10
Birth date
06/22/1932
Place of birth
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Date of death
10/27/2025
Filmography highlights
Movies
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · 8.0
Sub Rosa
2014 · 5.0
The Phone Call
2013 · 7.3
Run For Your Wife
2012 · 4.4
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011 · 5.2
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · 8.4
The Shell Seekers
2007 · 6.9
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005 · 5.0
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000 · 7.0
Mad Cows
1999 · 4.4
An Ideal Husband
1999 · 6.5
Stiff Upper Lips
1998 · 5.6
Series
Great Canal Journeys
2014 · 8.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · 7.8
The Royal
2003 · 7.8
Dickens
2002 · 7.0
Loose Women
1999 · 3.6
Keeping Mum
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997 · 7.5
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996 · 6.3
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · 6.4
Silent Witness
1996 · 7.6
The World of Lee Evans
1995 · 7.0
Signs and Wonders
1995 · 7.0
The Rector's Wife
1994 · 9.0
Screen One
1989 · 7.2
After Henry
1988 · 6.3