Prunella Scales
Born: Jun 22, 1932
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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.
Movie that she play too
Wolf
61% Match1994
The Shell Seekers
69% Match2007
Emma
65% Match1996
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
64% Match1987
Waltz of the Toreadors
48% Match1962
Hobson's Choice
74% Match1954
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
0% Match2006
Breaking the Code
51% Match1996
A Question of Attribution
66% Match1991
Stiff Upper Lips
52% Match1998
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
52% Match1992
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
0% Match2002
A Chorus of Disapproval
53% Match1989
Consuming Passions
80% Match1988
What the Butler Saw
10% Match1987
The Phone Call
73% Match2013
Fawlty Towers Revisited
50% Match2005
An Ideal Husband
64% Match1999
Second Best
67% Match1994
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
80% Match2014
Dirty Beasts
0% Match1990
Revolting Rhymes
0% Match1990
The Wicked Lady
48% Match1983
Run For Your Wife
44% Match2012
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
80% Match2009
The Littlest Horse Thieves
68% Match1976
An Audience with Alf Garnett
0% Match1997
Room at the Top
69% Match1958
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
60% Match2000
Beyond The Pale
0% Match1989
Doris and Doreen
60% Match1978
The Apple Cart
0% Match1975
What Every Woman Wants
63% Match1954
An Awfully Big Adventure
65% Match1995
Station Jim
70% Match2001
What the Pythons Did Next...
0% Match2007
Lord of Misrule
0% Match1996
Natural Causes
0% Match1988
Fair Game
37% Match1994
Howards End
70% Match1992
Outside Edge
60% Match1982
Horrid Henry: The Movie
52% Match2011
The Boys from Brazil
67% Match1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
42% Match1978
Mad Cows
34% Match1999
The Merry Wives of Windsor
80% Match1982
Laxdale Hall
60% Match1953
My Friend Walter
0% Match1992
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
0% Match1990
Home Cooking
0% Match1986
Sub Rosa
50% Match2014
When We Are Married
0% Match1987
Absurd Person Singular
80% Match1985
Slimming Down
0% Match1984
The Achurch Letters
0% Match1977
Bosses From Hell
0% Match1989
Communicators From Hell
0% Match1989
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
0% Match2025
The Crowded Day
54% Match1954
Singles
60% Match1983