Acting
Prunella Scales
1932-2025
Known for Fawlty Towers, Wolf, Howards End.
23
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Born06/22/1932
Died10/27/2025
AgeDied at 93
BirthplaceSutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
DepartmentActing
Also known asPrunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth, پرونلا اسکیلز
Biography
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 Credits
Stiff Upper Lips (1997)
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
The Shell Seekers (2006)
Breaking the Code (1996)
Second Best (1994)
Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992)
The Wicked Lady (1983)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
Howards End (1992)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
What Every Woman Wants (1954)
Emma (1996)
Mad Cows (1999)
Wolf (1994)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Crowded Day (1954)
Room at the Top (1958)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
