Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Birthday: 1932-06-22

Place of birth: Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

Also known as: Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth, پرونلا اسکیلز

imdb_id: nm0768795

Biography:

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 22 June 1932) 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.

Played in movies:

Absurd Person Singular

Score: 8.0

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Score: 8.0

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Score: 8.0

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Score: 8.0

Consuming Passions

Score: 8.0

Hobson's Choice

Score: 7.3

The Phone Call

Score: 7.3

Howards End

Score: 7.0

Station Jim

Score: 7.0

Room at the Top

Score: 6.9

The Shell Seekers

Score: 6.9

The Littlest Horse Thieves

Score: 6.8

The Boys from Brazil

Score: 6.7

Second Best

Score: 6.7

A Question of Attribution

Score: 6.6

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Score: 6.6

An Awfully Big Adventure

Score: 6.6

Emma

Score: 6.6

An Ideal Husband

Score: 6.5

What Every Woman Wants

Score: 6.3

Wolf

Score: 6.1

Laxdale Hall

Score: 6.0

Outside Edge

Score: 6.0

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

Score: 6.0

Stiff Upper Lips

Score: 5.6

The Crowded Day

Score: 5.4

Breaking the Code

Score: 5.4

A Chorus of Disapproval

Score: 5.3

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Score: 5.2

Sub Rosa

Score: 5.0

Fawlty Towers Revisited

Score: 5.0

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

Score: 5.0

The Wicked Lady

Score: 4.9

Waltz of the Toreadors

Score: 4.8

Run For Your Wife

Score: 4.4

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Score: 4.4

Fair Game

Score: 4.3

Mad Cows

Score: 3.6

What the Butler Saw

Score: 1.0

Singles

Score: 0.0

The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers

Score: 0.0

Communicators From Hell

Score: 0.0

Bosses From Hell

Score: 0.0

The Achurch Letters

Score: 0.0

Slimming Down

Score: 0.0

When We Are Married

Score: 0.0

Home Cooking

Score: 0.0

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Score: 0.0

My Friend Walter

Score: 0.0

Natural Causes

Score: 0.0

Lord of Misrule

Score: 0.0

What the Pythons Did Next...

Score: 0.0

The Apple Cart

Score: 0.0

Doris and Doreen

Score: 0.0

Beyond The Pale

Score: 0.0

An Audience with Alf Garnett

Score: 0.0

Revolting Rhymes

Score: 0.0

Dirty Beasts

Score: 0.0

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

Score: 0.0

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Great Canal Journeys

Score: 8.8

Fawlty Towers

Score: 8.3

The Rector's Wife

Score: 8.0

Agatha Christie's Marple

Score: 7.7

The Royal

Score: 7.6

Silent Witness

Score: 7.6

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

Lucky Feller

Score: 7.2

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Seven of One

Score: 7.0

Bergerac

Score: 6.7

Never the Twain

Score: 6.6

Dalziel & Pascoe

Score: 6.5

Target

Score: 6.3

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Score: 6.2

Casualty

Score: 6.1

The World of Lee Evans

Score: 6.0

Mapp & Lucia

Score: 6.0

After Henry

Score: 5.7

Unnatural Causes

Score: 5.5

An Audience with...

Score: 5.3

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

Marriage Lines

Score: 5.0

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Score: 3.8

Loose Women

Score: 3.2

Thompson

Score: 1.0

Theatre Night

Score: 0.0

Pride and Prejudice

Score: 0.0

Signs and Wonders

Score: 0.0

Dickens

Score: 0.0

Look at the State We're In!

Score: 0.0

Keeping Mum

Score: 0.0