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) 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

Emma

Score: 6.6

An Awfully Big Adventure

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

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Score: 5.2

A Chorus of Disapproval

Score: 5.2

Sub Rosa

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

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Score: 4.4

Run For Your Wife

Score: 4.4

Fair Game

Score: 4.3

Mad Cows

Score: 3.6

What the Butler Saw

Score: 1.0

Fawlty Towers: A Very British Comedy

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

Fawlty Towers Revisited

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