Overview
Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Jun 22, 1932 (93 years old)
Prunella Scales
Known For
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing...
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.
Acting
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
Sub Rosa
2012
Run For Your Wife
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
2006
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2002
Dickens
2002
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2000
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
1999
Mad Cows
1997
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1996
Lord of Misrule
1995
Look at the State We're In!
1995
Signs and Wonders
1994
Second Best
1994
Wolf
1994
Fair Game
1994
The Rector's Wife
1992
My Friend Walter
1992
Howards End
1991
A Question of Attribution
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Revolting Rhymes
1990
Dirty Beasts
1989
Beyond The Pale
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
Bosses From Hell
1988
Natural Causes
1988
Consuming Passions
1988
After Henry
1987
When We Are Married
1987
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1986
Home Cooking
1985
Mapp & Lucia
1985
Absurd Person Singular