Prunella Scales
Actor
- Born
- June 22, 1932 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
- Died
- October 27, 2025 (age 93)
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.
Known for
Wolf
June 17, 1994
Howards End
March 13, 1992
The Boys from Brazil
October 5, 1978
Hobson's Choice
April 19, 1954
Room at the Top
December 29, 1958
Emma
October 2, 1996
Horrid Henry: The Movie
July 29, 2011
The Phone Call
October 20, 2013
An Awfully Big Adventure
May 11, 1995
Second Best
September 30, 1994
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
August 14, 1992
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
December 23, 1987
Acting64
- 2025The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
- 201450 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
- 2014Sub Rosa as Madame
- 2013The Phone Call as Joan
- 2012Run For Your Wife as Woman in Pub
- 2011Horrid Henry: The Movie as Great Aunt Greta
- 2009Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self / Sybil Fawlty
- 2007The Shell Seekers as Dolly Keeling
- 2007Think as Customer
- 2007What the Pythons Did Next...