Prunella Scales
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.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
Silent Witness
Casualty
Agatha Christie's Marple
BBC Play of the Month
Bergerac
Playhouse
An Audience with...
Dalziel & Pascoe
Loose Women
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Fawlty Towers
Target
Never the Twain
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
After Henry
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Unnatural Causes
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Look at the State We're In!
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Faces of Jim
Emma
Theatre Night
Seven of One
Great Canal Journeys
Country Matters
Mapp & Lucia
Wolf
The Boys from Brazil
Lucky Feller
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Thompson
Dickens