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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.

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Actor

1953

[ ] Laxdale Hall (Morag McLeod)

1954

[ ] Hobson's Choice (Vicky Hobson)
[ ] What Every Woman Wants (Mary)
[ ] The Crowded Day (Customer)

1958

[ ] Room at the Top (Council Office Worker (uncredited))

1962

[ ] Waltz of the Toreadors (Estella Fitzjohn)

1975

[ ] The Apple Cart (Queen Jemima)

1976

[ ] The Littlest Horse Thieves (Mrs. Sandman)

1977

[ ] The Achurch Letters (Florence Farr)

1978

[ ] Doris and Doreen (Doris Rutter)
[ 7/10 ] The Boys from Brazil (Mrs. Harrington)
[ ] The Hound of the Baskervilles (Glynis)

1982

[ ] Outside Edge (Miriam)
[ ] The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page)

1983

[ ] The Wicked Lady (Lady Kingsclere)
[ ] Singles (Gail)

1984

[ ] Slimming Down (Mrs. Shrigley)

1985

[ ] Absurd Person Singular (Marion Brewster-Wright)

1986

[ ] Home Cooking (Judith)

1987

[ ] The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Moira O'Neill)
[ ] What the Butler Saw (Mrs Prentice)
[ ] When We Are Married (Annie Parker)

1988

[ ] Consuming Passions (Ethel)
[ ] Natural Causes (Celia Bryce)

1989

[ ] A Chorus of Disapproval (Hannah Ap Llewellyn)
[ ] Beyond The Pale (Milly)
[ ] Bosses From Hell (????)
[ ] Communicators From Hell (????)

1990

[ ] Dirty Beasts (Narrator)
[ ] Revolting Rhymes (Narrator)
[ ] The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (Fleecy Flock)

1991

[ ] A Question of Attribution (H.M.Q.)

1992

[ ] Freddie As F.R.O.7. (Queen (voice))
[ ] Howards End (Aunt Juley)
[ ] My Friend Walter (Aunt Ellie)

1994

[ ] Wolf (Maude Waggins)
[ ] Second Best (Margery)
[ ] Fair Game (Marjorie)
[ ] The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher (Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice))

1995

[ ] An Awfully Big Adventure (Rose)

1996

[ ] Emma (Miss Bates)
[ ] Breaking the Code (Sara Turing)
[ ] Lord of Misrule (Shirley)

1997

[ ] An Audience with Alf Garnett (????)

1998

[ ] Stiff Upper Lips (Aunt Agnes)

1999

[ ] An Ideal Husband (Lady Markby)
[ ] Mad Cows (Dr. Minny Stinkler)

2000

[ ] The Ghost of Greville Lodge (Sarah)

2001

[ ] Station Jim (Queen Victoria)

2002

[ ] A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (Grace)

2005

[ ] Fawlty Towers Revisited (Herself)

2006

[ ] Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (Lady Moping)

2007

[ ] The Shell Seekers (Dolly Keeling)
[ ] What the Pythons Did Next... (Self)
[ ] Think (Customer)

2009

[ ] Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened (Self / Sybil Fawlty)

2011

[ ] Horrid Henry: The Movie (Great Aunt Greta)

2012

[ ] Run For Your Wife (Woman in Pub)

2013

[ ] The Phone Call (Joan)

2014

[ ] 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy (Self)
[ ] Sub Rosa (Madame)

2025

[ ] The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers (????)