Personal details
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Born
22 giugno 1932
Died
27 ottobre 2025
Place of birth
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Also known as
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales · Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth · پرونلا اسکیلز
Biography
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.
Conosciuto per
8.3
Series
Fawlty Towers
Sybil Fawlty
1975–1979
5.2
Film
Horrid Henry: The Movie
Great Aunt Greta
2011
6.6
Film
Emma
Miss Bates
1996
7.0
Film
Howards End
Aunt Juley
1992
8.3
Film
Consuming Passions
Ethel
1988
6.1
Film
Wolf
Maude Waggins
1994
6.4
Series
After Henry
Sarah France
1988–1992
6.3
Series
Mapp & Lucia
Miss Elizabeth Mapp
1985–1986
7.0
Series
Marriage Lines
Kate Starling
1961–1966
7.0
Series
Signs and Wonders
Elizabeth Palmore
1995
9.0
Series
The Rector's Wife
Marjorie Richardson
1994
Acting credits 11 titles
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta
5.2
2011
Emma
as Miss Bates
6.6
1996
Signs and Wonders
as Elizabeth Palmore
7.0
1995
The Rector's Wife
as Marjorie Richardson
9.0
1994
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
6.1
1994
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
7.0
1992
After Henry
as Sarah France
6.4
1988–1992
Consuming Passions
as Ethel
8.3
1988
Mapp & Lucia
as Miss Elizabeth Mapp
6.3
1985–1986
Fawlty Towers
as Sybil Fawlty
8.3
1975–1979
Marriage Lines
as Kate Starling
7.0
1961–1966