Actor

Prunella Scales

Born June 22, 1932 in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK · Died October 27, 2025 (aged 93)

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.

Biography from TMDB · IMDb

Your prediction

Which Prunella Scales movies will you love?

Amaree predicts your rating for 13 of Prunella Scales's movies and explains each one, so you can skip the misses.

Free to download. Predictions for 10,000+ movies.