Prunella Scales

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Prunella Scales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Cast

Wolf

(Maude Waggins)

The Shell Seekers

(Dolly Keeling)

Emma

(Miss Bates)

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

(Moira O'Neill)

Waltz of the Toreadors

(Estella Fitzjohn)

Hobson's Choice

(Vicky Hobson)

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

(Lady Moping)

Breaking the Code

(Sara Turing)

A Question of Attribution

(H.M.Q.)

Stiff Upper Lips

(Aunt Agnes)

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

(Queen (voice))

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

(Grace)

A Chorus of Disapproval

(Hannah Ap Llewellyn)

Consuming Passions

(Ethel)

What the Butler Saw

(Mrs Prentice)

The Phone Call

(Joan)

Fawlty Towers Revisited

(Herself)

An Ideal Husband

(Lady Markby)

Second Best

(Margery)

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

(Self)

Dirty Beasts

(Narrator)

Revolting Rhymes

(Narrator)

The Wicked Lady

(Lady Kingsclere)

Run For Your Wife

(Woman in Pub)

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

(Self / Sybil Fawlty)

The Littlest Horse Thieves

(Mrs. Sandman)

An Audience with Alf Garnett

Room at the Top

(Council Office Worker (uncredited))

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

Beyond The Pale

(Milly)

Doris and Doreen

(Doris Rutter)

The Apple Cart

(Queen Jemima)

What Every Woman Wants

(Mary)

An Awfully Big Adventure

(Rose)

Station Jim

(Queen Victoria)

What the Pythons Did Next...

(Self)

Lord of Misrule

(Shirley)

Natural Causes

(Celia Bryce)

Fair Game

(Marjorie)

Howards End

(Aunt Juley)

Outside Edge

(Miriam)

Horrid Henry: The Movie

(Great Aunt Greta)

The Boys from Brazil

(Mrs. Harrington)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

(Glynis)

Mad Cows

(Dr. Minny Stinkler)

The Merry Wives of Windsor

(Mistress Page)

Laxdale Hall

(Morag McLeod)

My Friend Walter

(Aunt Ellie)

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

(Fleecy Flock)

Home Cooking

(Judith)

Sub Rosa

(Madame)

When We Are Married

(Annie Parker)

Absurd Person Singular

(Marion Brewster-Wright)

Slimming Down

(Mrs. Shrigley)

The Achurch Letters

(Florence Farr)

Bosses From Hell

Communicators From Hell

Seven of One

Midsomer Murders

(Eleanor Bunsall)

Bergerac

(Gloria Gibbins)

Fawlty Towers

(Sybil Fawlty)

Marriage Lines

Dalziel & Pascoe

After Henry

Great Canal Journeys

(Self)

Target

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Mapp & Lucia

Keeping Mum

(Marjorie)

Look at the State We're In!

(Storyteller)

Unnatural Causes

(Judith)

The Royal

(Red Admiral)

Thompson

Lucky Feller

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

(Mrs. Duffel)

Dickens

An Audience with...

(Self)

Casualty

(Jocelyn Anderson)

The World of Lee Evans

(Mother)

The Rector's Wife

(Marjorie Richardson)

Signs and Wonders

(Elizabeth Palmore)

Silent Witness

(Anne Parker)

Loose Women

(Self)

Pride and Prejudice

(Lydia Bennet)

Thirty-Minute Theatre

(Marie)