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.
Acting
Movie
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
1994
TV
Fawlty Towers
as Sybil Fawlty
1975
Movie
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
1992
Movie
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
1978
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Eleanor Bunsall
1997
Movie
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
1954
Movie
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
1958
TV
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs Mackenzie
2004
Movie
Emma
as Miss Bates
1996
TV
Silent Witness
as Anne Parker
1996
Movie
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
2011
TV
Casualty
as Jocelyn Anderson
1986
Movie
The Phone Call
as Joan
2013
Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
1995
Movie
Second Best
as Margery
1994
Movie
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
1992
Movie
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
1987
Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Glynis
1978
TV
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Edith Disney
1996
Movie
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
1989
Movie
The Wicked Lady
as Lady Kingsclere
1983
TV
Bergerac
as Gloria Gibbins
1981
TV
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Mrs. Duffel
1996
Movie
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
1996