Prunella Scales
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Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress.
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Wolf
Howards End
The Boys from Brazil
Emma
Hobson's Choice
Room at the Top
Horrid Henry: The Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Phone Call
Second Best
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Wicked Lady
A Chorus of Disapproval
Breaking the Code
Mad Cows
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Stiff Upper Lips
Run For Your Wife
Waltz of the Toreadors
A Question of Attribution
The Crowded Day
An Ideal Husband
The Shell Seekers
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Fair Game
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Sub Rosa
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
What Every Woman Wants
Absurd Person Singular
Consuming Passions
What the Butler Saw
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Outside Edge
Doris and Doreen103 credits on file
Television 24
Midsomer Murders
Casualty
Silent Witness
Agatha Christie's Marple
Bergerac
BBC Play of the Month
Loose Women
Fawlty Towers
Dalziel and Pascoe
Playhouse
An Audience with...
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Never the Twain
Screen One
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
ScreenPlay
Target
Mapp & Lucia
Country Matters
The Royal
Great Canal Journeys
After Henry
Seven of OneAwards 1
In their orbit 2
Connected to Prunella 6
About this person
Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975-1979) and her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (1991), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. She later appeared in the TV documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014-2019), travelling waterways in the UK and abroad with her husband, the actor Timothy West.
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