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Prunella Scales

ActorBorn June 22, 1932 (93 years)
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth) is 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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Midsomer Murders
  • The Boys from Brazil
  • Hobson's Choice
  • Room at the Top
  • Emma
  • Coronation Street
  • The Royal

Known For

  • Fawlty Towers
  • Howards End
  • Hobson's Choice
  • The Phone Call
  • Emma
  • An Awfully Big Adventure
  • Second Best
  • Horrid Henry: The Movie
  • Stiff Upper Lips
  • A Chorus of Disapproval
  • The Wicked Lady
  • Mapp and Lucia
  • After Henry
  • The Ghost of Greville Lodge
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
  • Freddie as F.R.O.7.

Filmography

2025
2015
The Big Knights · as Queen Melissa
2013
The Phone Call · as Joan
2012
Run for Your Wife · as Woman In Pub
2011
Horrid Henry: The Movie · as Great Aunt Greta
2006
The Shell Seekers · as Dolly Keeling
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Mrs Mackenzie
2003
Johnny English · as The Queen
2003
The Royal (TV Series) · as Red Admiral
2002
Dickens (TV Series)
2001
Station Jim · as Queen Victoria
2001
The Human Face (TV Series) · as Pet Shop Owner
2000
Animated Tales of the World (TV Series) · as Narrator
2000
2000
A History of Britain by Simon Schama (TV Series) · as Queen Victoria
1999
The Big Knights (TV Series) · as Queen Melissa
1999
Mad Cows · as Dr. Minny Stinkler
1999
An Ideal Husband · as Lady Markby
1997
Stiff Upper Lips · as Aunt Agnes
1997
Keeping Mum (TV Series) · as Marjorie
1997
Where the Heart Is (TV Series) · as Hattie Dymchurch
1997
1997
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Eleanor Bunsall
1996
Emma · as Miss Bates
1996
Breaking the Code · as Sara Turing
1996
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (TV Series) · as Mrs. Duffel
1996
Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series)
1996
Lord of Misrule · as Shirley
1996
Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Anne Parker
1995
The World of Lee Evans (TV Series) · as Mother
1995
1995
Signs and Wonders (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Palmore
1994
Second Best · as Margery
1994
Wolf · as Maude Waggins
1994
Fair Game · as Marjorie
1994
1994
The Rector's Wife (TV Series) · as Marjorie Richardson
1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (TV Series) · as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
1992
Freddie as F.R.O.7. · as Queen (voice)
1992
Howards End · as Aunt Juley
1992
My Friend Walter · as Aunt Ellie
1992
1990
1990
Revolting Rhymes · as Narrator
1990
Dirty Beasts · as Narrator
1990
Revolting Rhymes · as Narrator
1990
Dirty Beasts · as Narrator
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval · as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
1988
Consuming Passions · as Ethel
1988
Thompson (TV Series)
1988
After Henry (TV Series)
1987
When We Are Married · as Annie Parker
1987
1986
Casualty (TV Series) · as Jocelyn Anderson
1986
Screenplay (1986) (TV Series) · as Milly
1985
Screen One (TV Series) · as H.m.q.
1985
Theatre Night (TV Series) · as Mrs. Prentice
1985
Mapp and Lucia (TV Series)
1985
Absurd Person Singular · as Marion Brewster-Wright
1983
Wagner (TV Series) · as Frau Pollert
1983
The Wicked Lady · as Lady Kingsclere
1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor · as Mistress Page
1982
Outside Edge · as Miriam
1981
Bergerac (TV Series) · as Gloria Gibbins
1981
Never the Twain (TV Series) · as Susan Peel
1978
Doris and Doreen · as Doris Rutter
1978
The Boys from Brazil · as Mrs. Harrington
1978
1977
Target (TV Series) · as Diana Blake
1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves · as Mrs. Sandman
1975
Fawlty Towers (TV Series) · as Sybil Fawlty
1975
Lucky Feller (TV Series)
1973
Playhouse (TV Series) · as Florence Farr
1973
Seven of One (TV Series)
1972
Country Matters (TV Series) · as Babs Pickard
1965
Jackanory (TV Series) · as Storyteller
1965
Play of the Month (TV Series) · as Queen Jemima
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) · as Marie
1964
Horizon (TV Series) · as Florence Hastings
1962
Waltz of the Toreadors · as Estella Fitzjohn
1961
Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) · as Dolly
1960
Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Eileen Hughes
1960
BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) · as Maud Murch
1958
Room at the Top · as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
1958
Blind Spot · as Petrol Pump Attendant
1957
Television World Theatre (TV Series) · as Dunyasha
1955
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Barmaid
1955
ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Gabrielle
1954
Shop Spoiled · as Customer
1954
1954
Hobson's Choice · as Vicky Hobson
1953
Scotch on the Rocks · as Morag Mcleod
1950
Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Prudence Buckland

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