Prunella Scales
Biografía
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.
Filmografía
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
(2025)
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self (2014)
Great Canal Journeys
Self (2014)
Sub Rosa
Madame (2014)
The Phone Call
Joan (2013)
Run For Your Wife
Woman in Pub (2012)
Pablo Diablo: La película
Great Aunt Greta (2011)
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self / Sybil Fawlty (2009)
The Shell Seekers
Dolly Keeling (2007)
Think
Customer (2007)
What the Pythons Did Next...
Self (2007)
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Lady Moping (2006)
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Herself (2005)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited) (2005)
Agatha Christie: Miss Marple
Mrs Mackenzie (2004)
The Royal
Red Admiral (2003)
Dickens
Elizabeth Dickens (2002)
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Grace (2002)
Station Jim
Queen Victoria (2001)
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Sarah (2000)
Mad Cows
Dr. Minny Stinkler (1999)
An Ideal Husband
Lady Markby (1999)
Arrogantes y exquisitos
Aunt Agnes (1998)
Keeping Mum
Marjorie (1997)
An Audience with Alf Garnett
(1997)
Los asesinatos de Midsomer
Eleanor Bunsall (1997)
Emma
Miss Bates (1996)
Breaking the Code
Sara Turing (1996)
Lord of Misrule
Shirley (1996)
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Mrs. Duffel (1996)
Dalziel & Pascoe
(1996)
Testigo mudo
Anne Parker (1996)
The World of Lee Evans
Mother (1995)
Look at the State We're In!
Storyteller (1995)
Una insólita aventura
Rose (1995)
Signs and Wonders
Elizabeth Palmore (1995)
Difícil elección
Margery (1994)
Lobo
Maude Waggins (1994)
Fair Game
Marjorie (1994)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice) (1994)
The Rector's Wife
Marjorie Richardson (1994)
Freddie Agente F.R.O.7.
Queen (voice) (1992)
My Friend Walter
Aunt Ellie (1992)
Regreso a Howards End
Aunt Juley (1992)
A Question of Attribution
H.M.Q. (1991)
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Fleecy Flock (1990)
Dirty Beasts
Narrator (1990)
Revolting Rhymes
Narrator (1990)
Beyond The Pale
Milly (1989)
Adorable seductor
Hannah Ap Llewellyn (1989)
Bosses From Hell
(1989)
Communicators From Hell
(1989)
Thompson
(1988)
Natural Causes
Celia Bryce (1988)
Pasión devoradora
Ethel (1988)
After Henry
Sarah France (1988)
When We Are Married
Annie Parker (1987)
La solitaria pasión de Judith Hearne
Moira O'Neill (1987)
What the Butler Saw
Mrs Prentice (1987)
Home Cooking
Judith (1986)
Unnatural Causes
Judith (1986)
Casualty
Jocelyn Anderson (1986)
Theatre Night
Mrs. Prentice (1985)
Mapp & Lucia
Miss Elizabeth Mapp (1985)
Absurd Person Singular
Marion Brewster-Wright (1985)
Slimming Down
Mrs. Shrigley (1984)
La dama perversa
Lady Kingsclere (1983)
Singles
Gail (1983)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Page (1982)
Outside Edge
Miriam (1982)
Never the Twain
Susan Peel (1981)
Doris and Doreen
Doris Rutter (1978)
Los niños del Brasil
Mrs. Harrington (1978)
El perro de Baskervilles
Glynis (1978)
An Audience with...
Self (1978)
Target
Diana Blake (1977)
The Achurch Letters
Florence Farr (1977)
Lucky Feller
(1976)
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Mrs. Sandman (1976)
Hotel Fawlty
Sybil Fawlty (1975)
The Apple Cart
Queen Jemima (1975)
Playhouse
Florence Farr (1974)
Seven of One
Marion Joyce (1973)
The Ring of Truth
Babs Pickard (1973)
Country Matters
Babs Pickard (1972)
BBC Play of the Month
Queen Jemima (1965)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Marie (1965)
El mayor mujeriego
Estella Fitzjohn (1962)
Faces of Jim
Laura Morrell (1961)
Marriage Lines
(1961)
Un lugar en la cumbre
Council Office Worker (uncredited) (1958)
The Crowded Day
Customer (1954)
What Every Woman Wants
Mary (1954)
El déspota
Vicky Hobson (1954)
Laxdale Hall
Morag McLeod (1953)
Pride and Prejudice
Lydia Bennet (1952)
Loose Women
Self
Bergerac
Gloria Gibbins