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Prunella Scales
Acting
Biography
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.
BODY OF WORK
Prunella Scales's Filmography
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The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
Sub Rosa
as Madame
The Phone Call
as Joan
Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
The Shell Seekers
as Dolly Keeling
No Poster
Think
as Customer
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Lady Moping
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
No Poster
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as Grace
Station Jim
as Queen Victoria
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
as Sarah
Mad Cows
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes
An Audience with Alf Garnett
Emma
as Miss Bates
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
No Poster
Lord of Misrule
as Shirley
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
Second Best
as Margery
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
Fair Game
as Marjorie
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
My Friend Walter
as Aunt Ellie
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
A Question of Attribution
as H.M.Q.
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Fleecy Flock
Dirty Beasts
as Narrator
Revolting Rhymes
as Narrator
Beyond The Pale
as Milly
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
Bosses From Hell
Communicators From Hell
Natural Causes
as Celia Bryce
Consuming Passions
as Ethel
When We Are Married
as Annie Parker
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
What the Butler Saw
as Mrs Prentice
Home Cooking
as Judith
Absurd Person Singular
as Marion Brewster-Wright
Slimming Down
as Mrs. Shrigley
The Wicked Lady
as Lady Kingsclere
No Poster
Singles
as Gail
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Page
Outside Edge
as Miriam
Doris and Doreen
as Doris Rutter
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Glynis
The Achurch Letters
as Florence Farr
The Littlest Horse Thieves
as Mrs. Sandman
No Poster
The Apple Cart
as Queen Jemima
No Poster
The Ring of Truth
as Babs Pickard
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Estella Fitzjohn
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
The Crowded Day
as Customer
What Every Woman Wants
as Mary
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
No Poster
Laxdale Hall
as Morag McLeod