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Prunella Scales

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.

  • Great Canal Journeys
  • Agatha Christie's Marple
  • The Royal
  • Dickens
  • Midsomer Murders
  • Keeping Mum
  • Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
  • Silent Witness
  • Dalziel and Pascoe
  • The World of Lee Evans
  • Signs and Wonders
  • The Rector's Wife
  • Screen One
  • After Henry
  • Casualty
  • Unnatural Causes
  • ScreenPlay
  • Theatre Night
  • Mapp & Lucia
  • Bergerac
  • Never the Twain
  • The BBC Television Shakespeare
  • Target
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Playhouse
  • Seven of One
  • Country Matters
  • Thirty-Minute Theatre
  • BBC Play of the Month
  • Marriage Lines
  • Pride and Prejudice

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