Personal Info
Birthday
June 22, 1932
Place of Birth
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Prunella Scales
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.
Acting Filmography (88)
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0.0
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Movie2025
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8.0
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Movie2014
8.8
Great Canal Journeys
TV Series2014
5.0
Sub Rosa
Movie2014
7.3
The Phone Call
Movie2013
4.4
Run For Your Wife
Movie2012
5.2
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Movie2011
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8.4
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Movie2009
6.9
The Shell Seekers
Movie2007
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What the Pythons Did Next...
Movie2007
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Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Movie2006
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5.0
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Movie2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV Series2004
7.8
The Royal
TV Series2003
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7.0
Dickens
TV Series2002
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7.0
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Movie2000
4.4
Mad Cows
Movie1999
3.4
Loose Women
TV Series1999
6.5
An Ideal Husband
Movie1999
5.6
Stiff Upper Lips
Movie1998
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Keeping Mum
TV Series1997
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An Audience with Alf Garnett
Movie1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
TV Series1997
6.6
Emma
Movie1996
5.5
Breaking the Code
Movie1996
6.3
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
TV Series1996
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV Series1996
7.6
Silent Witness
TV Series1996
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7.0
The World of Lee Evans
TV Series1995
6.5
An Awfully Big Adventure
Movie1995
7.0
Signs and Wonders
TV Series1995
6.8
Second Best
Movie1994
6.1
Wolf
Movie1994
4.8
Fair Game
Movie1994
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Movie1994
9.0
The Rector's Wife
TV Series1994
5.3
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Movie1992
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7.0
My Friend Walter
Movie1992
7.0
Howards End
Movie1992
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6.8
A Question of Attribution
Movie1991
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Movie1990
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Dirty Beasts
Movie1990
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Revolting Rhymes
Movie1990
7.2
Screen One
TV Series1989
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7.0
Beyond The Pale
Movie1989
5.4
A Chorus of Disapproval
Movie1989
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Bosses From Hell
Movie1989
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Communicators From Hell
Movie1989
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8.0
Natural Causes
Movie1988
8.3
Consuming Passions
Movie1988
6.7
After Henry
TV Series1988
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7.0
When We Are Married
Movie1987
6.6
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Movie1987
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3.0
What the Butler Saw
Movie1987
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Home Cooking
Movie1986
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6.3
Unnatural Causes
TV Series1986
6.2
Casualty
TV Series1986
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6.0
ScreenPlay
TV Series1986
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Theatre Night
TV Series1985
6.3
Mapp & Lucia
TV Series1985
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8.3
Absurd Person Singular
Movie1985
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Slimming Down
Movie1984
5.0
The Wicked Lady
Movie1983
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8.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Movie1982
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8.0
Outside Edge
Movie1982
6.7
Bergerac
TV Series1981
7.0
Never the Twain
TV Series1981
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6.5
Doris and Doreen
Movie1978
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV Series1978
6.7
The Boys from Brazil
Movie1978
4.4
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Movie1978
5.3
An Audience with...
TV Series1978
7.0
Target
TV Series1977
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The Achurch Letters
Movie1977
6.9
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Movie1976
8.3
Fawlty Towers
TV Series1975
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7.0
Playhouse
TV Series1974
7.3
Seven of One
TV Series1973
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4.6
Country Matters
TV Series1972
5.3
BBC Play of the Month
TV Series1965
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4.2
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV Series1965
5.0
Waltz of the Toreadors
Movie1962
7.0
Marriage Lines
TV Series1961
6.9
Room at the Top
Movie1958
5.8
The Crowded Day
Movie1954
6.5
What Every Woman Wants
Movie1954
7.4
Hobson's Choice
Movie1954
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9.0
Pride and Prejudice
TV Series1952