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Prunella Scales

1932–2025 · Acting

66.0avg grm
8titles
#97best rank
1honors
Fbest title · #97 on siteFawlty Towers1975 · as Sybil Fawlty · series73.6

Honors

1
1992Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Bio

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.

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.

Filmography

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2010s2 titlesGGreat Canal Journeys2014 · as Self · series64.3GGreat Canal Journeys2014 · as Self - Presenter · series64.3
1990s1 titleHHowards End1992 · as Aunt Juley73.5
1980s2 titlesAAfter Henry1988 · as Sarah France · series63.6MMapp & Lucia1985 · as Miss Elizabeth Mapp · series64.2
1970s2 titlesFFawlty Towers1975 · as Sybil Fawlty · series73.677 of 11973 · as Marion Joyce · series63.7
1950s1 titleHHobson's Choice1954 · as Vicky Hobson60.4

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Prunella Scales

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born1932
died2025
known forActing
titles on site8
best title rank#97 · Fawlty Towers (1975)
avg GRM66.0
honors1 · Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1992
Honors
  • 1992Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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.

Filmography

ranked on this site

2010s

2 titles
G64.3Great Canal Journeys2014 · as Self · seriesG64.3Great Canal Journeys2014 · as Self - Presenter · series

1990s

1 title
H73.5Howards End1992 · as Aunt Juley

1980s

2 titles
A63.6After Henry1988 · as Sarah France · seriesM64.2Mapp & Lucia1985 · as Miss Elizabeth Mapp · series

1970s

2 titles
F73.6Fawlty Towers1975 · as Sybil Fawlty · series763.77 of 11973 · as Marion Joyce · series

1950s

1 title
H60.4Hobson's Choice1954 · as Vicky Hobson

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