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.
as Self
as Self(34 eps)
as Madame
as Joan
as Woman in Pub
as Great Aunt Greta
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
as Dolly Keeling
as Customer
as Self
as Lady Moping
as Herself
as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Mrs Mackenzie(1 ep)
as Self / Victoria(2 eps)
as Red Admiral(1 ep)
as Elizabeth Dickens(1 ep)
as Grace
as Queen Victoria
as Sarah
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
as Self(1 ep)
as Lady Markby
as Aunt Agnes
as Marjorie(1 ep)
as Eleanor Bunsall(1 ep)
as Miss Bates
as Sara Turing
as Shirley
as Mrs. Duffel(1 ep)
as Edith Disney(1 ep)
as Anne Parker(2 eps)
as Mrs. Tilston(7 eps)
as Mother(1 ep)
as Storyteller(1 ep)
as Rose
as Elizabeth Palmore(4 eps)
as Margery
as Maude Waggins
as Marjorie
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
as Marjorie Richardson(3 eps)
as Queen (voice)
as Aunt Ellie
as Aunt Juley
as H.M.Q.
as Fleecy Flock
as Narrator
as Narrator
as H.M.Q.(1 ep)
as Milly
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
as Celia Bryce
as Ethel
as Sarah France(38 eps)
as Annie Parker
as Moira O'Neill
as Mrs Prentice
as Judith
as Judith(1 ep)
as Jocelyn Anderson(1 ep)
as Milly(1 ep)
as Mrs. Prentice(1 ep)
as Miss Elizabeth Mapp(10 eps)
as Marion Brewster-Wright
as Olive Dodd(1 ep)
as Mrs. Shrigley
as Lady Kingsclere
as Gail
as Mistress Page
as Miriam
as Patti(6 eps)
as Gloria Gibbins(1 ep)
as Susan Peel(1 ep)
as Doris Rutter
as Mistress Page(1 ep)
as Mrs. Harrington
as Glynis
as Mavis Blackhead(1 ep)
as Self(2 eps)
as Diana Blake(1 ep)
as Florence Farr
as Dolly(13 eps)
as Mrs. Sandman
as Sybil Fawlty(12 eps)
as Queen Jemima
as Florence Farr(1 ep)
as Marion Joyce(1 ep)
as Babs Pickard
as Babs Pickard(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Queen Jemima(1 ep)
as Marie(1 ep)
as Estella Fitzjohn
as Laura Morrell(1 ep)
as Kate Starling(43 eps)
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
as Customer
as Mary
as Vicky Hobson
as Morag McLeod
as Lydia Bennet(4 eps)