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Prunella Scales
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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.
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64 acting credits · Includes cameos and other appearances where listed.
Wolf
Maude Waggins
The Boys from Brazil
Mrs. Harrington
Emma
Miss Bates
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Great Aunt Greta
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Queen (voice)
Room at the Top
Council Office Worker (uncredited)
Sub Rosa
Madame
Hobson's Choice
Vicky Hobson
Consuming Passions
Ethel
A Chorus of Disapproval
Hannah Ap Llewellyn
The Wicked Lady
Lady Kingsclere
Second Best
Margery
Fair Game
Marjorie
The Shell Seekers
Dolly Keeling
Waltz of the Toreadors
Estella Fitzjohn
Run For Your Wife
Woman in Pub
Stiff Upper Lips
Aunt Agnes
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
Home Cooking
Judith
What the Butler Saw
Mrs Prentice
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Mrs. Sandman
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Moira O'Neill
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self / Sybil Fawlty
When We Are Married
Annie Parker
Breaking the Code
Sara Turing
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Page
Dirty Beasts
Narrator
The Crowded Day
Customer
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Fleecy Flock
The Ring of Truth
The Ring of Truth
Babs Pickard
Mad Cows
Dr. Minny Stinkler
The Achurch Letters
Florence Farr
Station Jim
Queen Victoria
An Ideal Husband
Lady Markby
My Friend Walter
Aunt Ellie
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Lady Moping
Bosses From Hell
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