Prunella Scales

Acting

Prunella Scales

Born 1932-06-22 Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK 64 films

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 …

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Filmography

64 films
Wolf poster

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his…

Wolf

★ 6.1 1994

Fair Game poster

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian, has come to En…

Fair Game

★ 4.8 1994

Howards End poster

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the…

Howards End

★ 7.0 1992

Dirty Beasts poster

Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doi…

Dirty Beasts

★ 0.0 1990