Prunella Scales
- Interprétation
- 22 juin 1932 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
- 27 octobre 2025
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
- 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy · En personne
- Great Canal Journeys · En personne
- Sub Rosa · Madame
- The Phone Call · Joan
- Run For Your Wife · Woman in Pub
- Horrible Henry · Great Aunt Greta
- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened · Self / Sybil Fawlty
- Les pêcheurs de coquillages · Dolly Keeling
- Think · Customer
- What the Pythons Did Next... · En personne
- Mr. Loveday's Little Outing · Lady Moping
- Fawlty Towers Revisited · En personne
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy · Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Miss Marple · Mrs Mackenzie
- Looking for Victoria · Self / Victoria
- The Royal · Red Admiral
- Dickens · Elizabeth Dickens
- A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg · Grace
- Station Jim · Queen Victoria
- The Ghost of Greville Lodge · Sarah
- Mad Cows · Dr. Minny Stinkler
- Loose Women · En personne
- An Ideal Husband · Lady Markby
- Stiff Upper Lips · Aunt Agnes
- Keeping Mum · Marjorie
- An Audience with Alf Garnett
- Inspecteur Barnaby · Eleanor Bunsall
- Emma · Miss Bates
- Breaking the Code · Sara Turing
- Lord of Misrule · Shirley
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher · Mrs. Duffel
- Dalziel and Pascoe · Edith Disney
- Affaires non classées · Anne Parker
- Searching · Mrs. Tilston
- The World of Lee Evans · Mother
- Look at the State We're In! · Storyteller
- An Awfully Big Adventure · Rose
- Signs and Wonders · Elizabeth Palmore
- Second Best · Margery
- Wolf · Maude Waggins
- Fair Game · Marjorie
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher · Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (Voix)
- The Rector's Wife · Marjorie Richardson
- Freddie, agent secret · Queen (Voix)
- My Friend Walter · Aunt Ellie
- Retour à Howards End · Aunt Juley
- A Question of Attribution · H.M.Q.
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson · Fleecy Flock
- Dirty Beasts · Narrator
- Revolting Rhymes · Narrator
- Screen One · H.M.Q.
- Beyond The Pale · Milly
- A Chorus of Disapproval · Hannah Ap Llewellyn
- Bosses From Hell
- Communicators From Hell
- Thompson
- Natural Causes · Celia Bryce
- Consuming Passions · Ethel
- After Henry · Sarah France
- When We Are Married · Annie Parker
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne · Moira O'Neill
- What the Butler Saw · Mrs Prentice
- Home Cooking · Judith
- Unnatural Causes · Judith
- Casualty · Jocelyn Anderson
- ScreenPlay · Milly
- Theatre Night · Mrs. Prentice
- Mapp & Lucia · Miss Elizabeth Mapp
- Absurd Person Singular · Marion Brewster-Wright
- Weekend Playhouse · Olive Dodd
- Slimming Down · Mrs. Shrigley
- La Dépravée · Lady Kingsclere
- Singles · Gail
- The Merry Wives of Windsor · Mistress Page
- Outside Edge · Miriam
- S.W.A.L.K. · Patti
- Jim Bergerac, le flic de Jersey · Gloria Gibbins
- Never the Twain · Susan Peel
- Doris and Doreen · Doris Rutter