Acting · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Born June 22, 1932
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.
MovieThe Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
Movie50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
TVGreat Canal Journeys
2014
as Self
MovieSub Rosa
2014
as Madame
MovieThe Phone Call
2013
as Joan
MovieRun For Your Wife
2012
as Woman in Pub
MovieHorrid Henry: The Movie
2011
as Great Aunt Greta
MovieFawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
as Self / Sybil Fawlty
MovieThe Shell Seekers
2007
as Dolly Keeling
Think
2007
as Customer
MovieWhat the Pythons Did Next...
2007
as Self
MovieMr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006
as Lady Moping
MovieFawlty Towers Revisited
2005
as Herself
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Mrs Mackenzie
Looking for Victoria
2003
as Self / Victoria
TVThe Royal
2003
as Red Admiral
TVDickens
2002
as Elizabeth Dickens
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2002
as Grace
Station Jim
2001
as Queen Victoria
MovieThe Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
as Sarah
MovieMad Cows
1999
as Dr. Minny Stinkler
TVLoose Women
1999
as Self
MovieAn Ideal Husband
1999
as Lady Markby
MovieStiff Upper Lips
1998
as Aunt Agnes
TVKeeping Mum
1997
as Marjorie
MovieAn Audience with Alf Garnett
1997
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Eleanor Bunsall
MovieEmma
1996
as Miss Bates
MovieBreaking the Code
1996
as Sara Turing
Lord of Misrule
1996
as Shirley
TVDennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
as Mrs. Duffel
TVDalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Edith Disney
TVSilent Witness
1996
as Anne Parker
TVThe World of Lee Evans
1995
as Mother
Look at the State We're In!
1995
as Storyteller
MovieAn Awfully Big Adventure
1995
as Rose
TVSigns and Wonders
1995
as Elizabeth Palmore
MovieSecond Best
1994
as Margery
MovieWolf
1994
as Maude Waggins
MovieFair Game
1994
as Marjorie
MovieThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)
TVThe Rector's Wife
1994
as Marjorie Richardson
MovieFreddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
as Queen (voice)
MovieMy Friend Walter
1992
as Aunt Ellie
MovieHowards End
1992
as Aunt Juley
MovieA Question of Attribution
1991
as H.M.Q.
MovieThe Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Fleecy Flock
MovieDirty Beasts
1990
as Narrator
MovieRevolting Rhymes
1990
as Narrator
TVScreen One
1989
as H.M.Q.
MovieBeyond The Pale
1989
as Milly
MovieA Chorus of Disapproval
1989
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
MovieBosses From Hell
1989
MovieCommunicators From Hell
1989
Thompson
1988
MovieNatural Causes
1988
as Celia Bryce
MovieConsuming Passions
1988
as Ethel
TVAfter Henry
1988
as Sarah France
MovieWhen We Are Married
1987
as Annie Parker
MovieThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
as Moira O'Neill
MovieWhat the Butler Saw
1987
as Mrs Prentice
MovieHome Cooking
1986
as Judith
TVUnnatural Causes
1986
as Judith
TVCasualty
1986
as Jocelyn Anderson
TVScreenPlay
1986
as Milly
TVTheatre Night
1985
as Mrs. Prentice
TVMapp & Lucia
1985
as Miss Elizabeth Mapp
MovieAbsurd Person Singular
1985
as Marion Brewster-Wright
Weekend Playhouse
1984
as Olive Dodd
MovieSlimming Down
1984
as Mrs. Shrigley
MovieThe Wicked Lady
1983
as Lady Kingsclere
Singles
1983
as Gail
MovieThe Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
as Mistress Page
MovieOutside Edge
1982
as Miriam
TVBergerac
1981
as Gloria Gibbins
TVNever the Twain
1981
as Susan Peel
MovieDoris and Doreen
1978
as Doris Rutter
TVThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Mistress Page
MovieThe Boys from Brazil
1978
as Mrs. Harrington
MovieThe Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
as Glynis
TVAn Audience with...
1978
as Self
TVTarget
1977
as Diana Blake
MovieThe Achurch Letters
1977
as Florence Farr
MovieThe Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
as Mrs. Sandman
TVFawlty Towers
1975
as Sybil Fawlty
The Apple Cart
1975
as Queen Jemima
TVPlayhouse
1974
as Florence Farr
TVSeven of One
1973
as Marion Joyce
The Ring of Truth
1973
as Babs Pickard
TVCountry Matters
1972
as Babs Pickard
Film '72
1971
as Self
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Queen Jemima
TVThirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Marie
MovieWaltz of the Toreadors
1962
as Estella Fitzjohn
Faces of Jim
1961
as Laura Morrell
TVMarriage Lines
1961
as Kate Starling
MovieRoom at the Top
1958
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
MovieThe Crowded Day
1954
as Customer
MovieWhat Every Woman Wants
1954
as Mary
MovieHobson's Choice
1954
as Vicky Hobson
Laxdale Hall
1953
as Morag McLeod
TVPride and Prejudice
1952
as Lydia Bennet
