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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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- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Eleanor Bunsall
- Silent Witness (1996) as Anne Parker
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Queen Jemima
- Playhouse (1974) as Florence Farr
- Casualty (1986) as Jocelyn Anderson
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) as Mrs Mackenzie
- Bergerac (1981) as Gloria Gibbins
- An Audience with... (1978) as Self
- Dalziel & Pascoe (1996) Cast
- Loose Women (1999) as Self
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Marie
- Fawlty Towers (1975) as Sybil Fawlty
- Never the Twain (1981) as Susan Peel
- Target (1977) as Diana Blake
- Faces of Jim (1961) as Laura Morrell
- After Henry (1988) as Sarah France
- Country Matters (1972) as Babs Pickard
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (1996) as Mrs. Duffel
- Unnatural Causes (1986) as Judith
- Wolf (1994) as Maude Waggins
- Mapp & Lucia (1985) as Miss Elizabeth Mapp
- Theatre Night (1985) as Mrs. Prentice
- Look at the State We're In! (1995) as Storyteller
- Howards End (1992) as Aunt Juley
- Seven of One (1973) as Marion Joyce
- Emma (1996) as Miss Bates
- Marriage Lines (1961) as Kate Starling
- Great Canal Journeys (2014) as Self
- Thompson (1988) Cast
- Dickens (2002) as Elizabeth Dickens
- Keeping Mum (1997) as Marjorie
- Lucky Feller (1976) Cast
- Signs and Wonders (1995) as Elizabeth Palmore
- The Boys from Brazil (1978) as Mrs. Harrington
- Pride and Prejudice (1952) as Lydia Bennet
- Second Best (1994) as Margery
- The Wicked Lady (1983) as Lady Kingsclere
- Station Jim (2001) as Queen Victoria
- Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011) as Great Aunt Greta
- The World of Lee Evans (1995) as Mother
- The Rector's Wife (1994) as Marjorie Richardson
- Room at the Top (1958) as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) as Glynis
- Mad Cows (1999) as Dr. Minny Stinkler
- Run For Your Wife (2012) as Woman in Pub
- An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) as Rose
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005) as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hobson's Choice (1954) as Vicky Hobson
- A Question of Attribution (1991) as H.M.Q.
- Consuming Passions (1988) as Ethel
- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened (2009) as Self / Sybil Fawlty
- Sub Rosa (2014) as Madame
- The Shell Seekers (2007) as Dolly Keeling
- Freddie As F.R.O.7. (1992) as Queen (voice)
- When We Are Married (1987) as Annie Parker
- Fair Game (1994) as Marjorie
- Communicators From Hell (1989) Cast
- The Royal (2003) as Red Admiral
- Lord of Misrule (1996) as Shirley
- What the Pythons Did Next... (2007) as Self
- A Chorus of Disapproval (1989) as Hannah Ap Llewellyn
- Stiff Upper Lips (1998) as Aunt Agnes
- 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy (2014) as Self
- Bosses From Hell (1989) Cast
- The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976) as Mrs. Sandman
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) as Mistress Page
- The Crowded Day (1954) as Customer
- Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) as Estella Fitzjohn
- Breaking the Code (1996) as Sara Turing
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) as Moira O'Neill
- Doris and Doreen (1978) as Doris Rutter
- Outside Edge (1982) as Miriam
- Laxdale Hall (1953) as Morag McLeod
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990) as Fleecy Flock
- The Apple Cart (1975) as Queen Jemima
- The Phone Call (2013) as Joan
- What Every Woman Wants (1954) as Mary
- Absurd Person Singular (1985) as Marion Brewster-Wright
- The Achurch Letters (1977) as Florence Farr
- The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000) as Sarah
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Most-watched Prunella Scales films currently: Wolf (1994), Howards End (1992), Emma (1996), The Boys from Brazil (1978), Second Best (1994).
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Selected TV credits: Midsomer Murders (1997), Silent Witness (1996), BBC Play of the Month (1965), Playhouse (1974), Casualty (1986).
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