Acting credits
83
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Prunella Scales
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Movies: 55Series: 28
TMDB ID: 55643
IMDb ID: nm0768795
Known for: Acting
Born: June 22, 1932
Died: October 27, 2025
Age: 93
Place of birth: Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1952 - 2025
Years active: 74
Average TMDB rating: 6.49
Wikidata: Q271348
Also known as
Prunella 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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Prunella Scales.
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025 Movie
8.0
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
2014 Movie
5.0
Sub Rosa
as Madame
2014 Movie
7.3
The Phone Call
as Joan
2013 Movie
4.4
Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub
2012 Movie
5.2
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
2011 Movie
8.0
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
2009 Movie
6.9
The Shell Seekers
as Dolly Keeling
2007 Movie
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self
2007 Movie
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Lady Moping
2006 Movie
5.0
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
2005 Movie
6.4
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
as Sarah
2000 Movie
3.9
Mad Cows
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
1999 Movie
6.4
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
1999 Movie
5.2
Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes
1998 Movie
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997 Movie
6.6
Emma
as Miss Bates
1996 Movie
5.1
Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
1996 Movie
6.5
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
1995 Movie
6.7
Second Best
as Margery
1994 Movie
6.1
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
1994 Movie
3.8
Fair Game
as Marjorie
1994 Movie
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
1994 Movie
5.2
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
1992 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Prunella Scales.
8.8
Great Canal Journeys
as Self • 34 eps
2014 Series
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs Mackenzie • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.6
The Royal
as Red Admiral • 1 eps
2003 Series
Dickens
as Elizabeth Dickens • 1 eps
2002 Series
3.2
Loose Women
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
Keeping Mum
as Marjorie • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Eleanor Bunsall • 1 eps
1997 Series
6.2
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Mrs. Duffel • 1 eps
1996 Series
6.3
Dalziel & Pascoe
1 eps
1996 Series
7.5
Silent Witness
as Anne Parker • 2 eps
1996 Series
6.3
The World of Lee Evans
as Mother • 1 eps
1995 Series
Signs and Wonders
as Elizabeth Palmore • 4 eps
1995 Series
8.0
The Rector's Wife
as Marjorie Richardson • 4 eps
1994 Series
5.7
After Henry
as Sarah France • 38 eps
1988 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Jocelyn Anderson • 1 eps
1986 Series
6.0
Mapp & Lucia
as Miss Elizabeth Mapp • 10 eps
1985 Series
6.7
Bergerac
as Gloria Gibbins • 1 eps
1981 Series
6.6
Never the Twain
as Susan Peel • 1 eps
1981 Series
5.3
An Audience with...
as Self • 2 eps
1978 Series
6.3
Target
as Diana Blake • 1 eps
1977 Series
7.2
Lucky Feller
1 eps
1976 Series
8.3
Fawlty Towers
as Sybil Fawlty • 12 eps
1975 Series
7.0
Playhouse
as Florence Farr • 1 eps
1974 Series
7.0
Seven of One
as Marion Joyce • 1 eps
1973 Series