Prunella Scales

🎭 Actor

Prunella Scales

🎂 Born 22 June 1932 (age 93)✝ 27 October 2025📍 Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

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Popularity Score

55

Acting Credits

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.

Known For

Howards End

Emma

Wolf

Second Best

Full Filmography(55 films)

YearTitleCharacterRating

1992Howards EndAunt Juley★ 7.0 1996EmmaMiss Bates★ 6.6 1994WolfMaude Waggins★ 6.1 1994Second BestMargery★ 6.8 1978The Boys from BrazilMrs. Harrington★ 6.7 1982The Merry Wives of WindsorMistress Page★ 8.0 2014Sub RosaMadame★ 5.0 1994Fair GameMarjorie★ 4.8 1954Hobson's ChoiceVicky Hobson★ 7.4 2011Horrid Henry: The MovieGreat Aunt Greta★ 5.2 1983The Wicked LadyLady Kingsclere★ 5.0 2007The Shell SeekersDolly Keeling★ 6.9 1995An Awfully Big AdventureRose★ 6.5 1958Room at the TopCouncil Office Worker (uncredited)★ 6.9 1978The Hound of the BaskervillesGlynis★ 4.4 1999Mad CowsDr. Minny Stinkler★ 4.4 1992Freddie As F.R.O.7.Queen (voice)★ 5.3 1988Consuming PassionsEthel★ 8.3 1986Home CookingJudith—1987The Lonely Passion of Judith HearneMoira O'Neill★ 6.6 2013The Phone CallJoan★ 7.3 1990Dirty BeastsNarrator—1996Breaking the CodeSara Turing★ 5.5 1989A Chorus of DisapprovalHannah Ap Llewellyn★ 5.4 1999An Ideal HusbandLady Markby★ 6.5 1976The Littlest Horse ThievesMrs. Sandman★ 6.9 2012Run For Your WifeWoman in Pub★ 4.4 1991A Question of AttributionH.M.Q.★ 6.8 1962Waltz of the ToreadorsEstella Fitzjohn★ 5.0 2007What the Pythons Did Next...Self—1988Natural CausesCelia Bryce★ 8.0 1987When We Are MarriedAnnie Parker★ 7.0 1989Bosses From Hell——1989Communicators From Hell——1990The Tale of Little Pig RobinsonFleecy Flock—1954The Crowded DayCustomer★ 5.8 1954What Every Woman WantsMary★ 6.5 2025The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers——1978Doris and DoreenDoris Rutter★ 6.5 2000The Ghost of Greville LodgeSarah★ 7.0 201450 Years of BBC Two ComedySelf★ 8.0 1998Stiff Upper LipsAunt Agnes★ 5.6 1982Outside EdgeMiriam★ 8.0 1985Absurd Person SingularMarion Brewster-Wright★ 8.3 2009Fawlty Towers: Re-OpenedSelf / Sybil Fawlty★ 8.4 1992My Friend WalterAunt Ellie★ 7.0 1984Slimming DownMrs. Shrigley—2006Mr. Loveday's Little OutingLady Moping—2005Fawlty Towers RevisitedHerself★ 5.0 1994The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy FisherMrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)—1977The Achurch LettersFlorence Farr—1990Revolting RhymesNarrator—1989Beyond The PaleMilly★ 7.0 1997An Audience with Alf Garnett——1987What the Butler SawMrs Prentice★ 3.0

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