Moira House Girls' School, Eastbourne; The Old Vic School; Ute Hagen, New York
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1952–2019
Television
Fawlty Towers
A Question of Attribution
Great Canal Journeys
After Henry
Spouse
Timothy West
(m. 1963)
Children
2, including Samuel West
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales[1][2]CBE (néeIllingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actress. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award)[3] and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West.
^The International Who's Who, 1997–98, Europa Publications, p. 1332.
^The International Who's Who of Women 2002, 3rd edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2000
, p. 510.
^"1992 BAFTA Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actress. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife...
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Timothy West and PrunellaScales. Both are keen narrowboaters and were involved in campaigning to revive the Kennet & Avon Canal. West and Scales both talk frankly...
Godspeed. He formed the band PrunellaScales [es] with Solace guitarist Tommy Southard and L. Wood.[citation needed] PrunellaScales released "Dressing Up the...
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several years, some of which Saigon Kick was not active, he played for PrunellaScales [es], Skid Row, and Vince Neil. Varone began playing in various local...
was adapted for radio in 2006, with Edward Petherbridge as Blunt and PrunellaScales as the Queen in the second. Cambridge Spies, a 2003 BBC TV series about...
rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (PrunellaScales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker...
Julian Glover, with whom she has a son, actor Jamie Glover. Along with PrunellaScales, Blair and Glover were involved with the expansion of the Salisbury...
Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. She turned it down and the part was given to PrunellaScales. Turner died on 27 December 2014 in Dorchester, Dorset, at the age...
Briers was cast in the leading role in Marriage Lines (1961–66), with PrunellaScales playing the role of his wife. In between the pilot and the series itself...
(1961–1966), starring Richard Briers (later to star in The Good Life) and PrunellaScales (who went on to star in Fawlty Towers), and Not in Front of the Children...
in the Tesco TV adverts in the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside PrunellaScales and Jane Horrocks. He most recently appeared in the London's West End...
broadcast between 1963 and 1966. The series gave Richard Briers and PrunellaScales, its lead stars, a significant boost in their careers. At first titled...
starring Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Robert Portal, Samuel West, PrunellaScales, Peter Ustinov, and Brian Glover in his final film role. It is a broad...
Sylvia Coleridge as Miss Prism, Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Gwendolen and PrunellaScales as Cecily. The production was later released on CD. To commemorate...
Vail Reese as himself Joan Rivers as herself Michael Rix as himself PrunellaScales as Pet shop owner/wife Carrie Armel as herself David Matsumoto as himself...
Joan Sanderson as Mrs. Alice Richards in "Communication Problems" PrunellaScales is Sybil Fawlty (regular) Jeffrey Segal as Mr. Heath in "Gourmet Night"...
Seven of One also featured Roy Castle, Bill Maynard, Talfryn Thomas, PrunellaScales, Glynn Edwards, Joan Sims, Keith Chegwin, Leslie Dwyer, Robin Parkinson...
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