Prunella Scales
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.
Known for
- Midsomer Murders (1997)
- Casualty (1986)
- Loose Women (1999)
- Silent Witness (1996)
- BBC Play of the Month (1965)
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
- Playhouse (1974)
- An Audience with... (1978)
- Bergerac (1981)
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
- The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
- ScreenPlay (1986)
- Screen One (1989)
- Fawlty Towers (1975)
- Target (1977)
- Country Matters (1972)
- Never the Twain (1981)
- Unnatural Causes (1986)
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (1996)