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Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales is an English actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett.
Birth Name
Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth
Born
Wednesday, 22 June 1932
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Coronation Street: Compilations | Eileen Hughes | 2020 |
| The Phone Call | Joan | 2015 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Host / Self / Self - Presenter | 2014 |
| Run for Your Wife | 2012 | |
| Horrid Henry: The Movie | Great Aunt Greta | 2011 |
| Stars on the Street | Eileen Hughes | 2009 |
| Kate Garraway's Life Stories | Self - Timothy's Wife | 2009 |
| The Comedy Map of Britain | Self | 2007 |
| The Shell Seekers | Dolly Keeling | 2006 |
| Mr. Loveday's Little Outing | Lady Moping | 2006 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Coronation Street: Compilations | Eileen Hughes | 2020 |
| The Phone Call | Joan | 2015 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Host / Self / Self - Presenter | 2014 |
| Run for Your Wife | 2012 | |
| Horrid Henry: The Movie | Great Aunt Greta | 2011 |
| Stars on the Street | Eileen Hughes | 2009 |
| Kate Garraway's Life Stories | Self - Timothy's Wife | 2009 |
| The Comedy Map of Britain | Self | 2007 |
| The Shell Seekers | Dolly Keeling | 2006 |
| Mr. Loveday's Little Outing | Lady Moping | 2006 |
| The King's Head: A Maverick in London | Self | 2006 |
| Fawlty Towers Revisited | Herself / Self | 2005 |
| Marple | Mrs Mackenzie | 2004 |
| The Funny Ladies of British Comedy | Self | 2004 |
| Looking for Victoria | Presenter / Queen Victoria | 2003 |
| Johnny English | The Queen | 2003 |
| The Royal | Red Admiral | 2003 |
| Timeshift | Self | 2002 |
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Grace | 2002 |
| Station Jim | Queen Victoria | 2001 |
| Animated Tales of the World | Narrator | 2001 |
| The Human Face | Pet Shop Owner | 2001 |
| The Ghost of Greville Lodge | Sarah | 2000 |
| A History of Britain | Queen Victoria | 2000 |
| Mad Cows | Dr. Minny Stinkler | 1999 |
| Loose Women | Herself | 1999 |
| Stiff Upper Lips | Aunt Agnes | 1998 |
| Funny Women | Self | 1997 |
| Where the Heart Is | Hattie Dymchurch | 1997 |
| Light Lunch | Self | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Eleanor Bunsall | 1997 |
| Breaking the Code | Sara Turing | 1996 |
| Emma | Miss Bates | 1996 |
| Dennis the Menace | Mrs. Duffel | 1996 |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Edith Disney | 1996 |
| Lord of Misrule | Shirley | 1996 |
| Silent Witness | Anne Parker | 1996 |
| Look at the State We're In! | Storyteller | 1995 |
| An Awfully Big Adventure | Rose | 1995 |
| Signs and Wonders | Elizabeth Palmore | 1995 |
| Second Best | Margery | 1994 |
| Wolf | Maude / Maude Waggins | 1994 |
| Sherwood's Travels | 1994 | |
| The Rector's Wife | Marjorie Richardson | 1994 |
| The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice) | 1992 |
| Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Queen / Additional Voices / Queen (voice) | 1992 |
| Howards End | Aunt Juley | 1992 |
| Dirty Beasts | Narrator | 1990 |
| Screen One | H.M.Q. | 1989 |
| A Chorus of Disapproval | Hannah Ap Llewellyn | 1989 |
| Thompson | Various Roles | 1988 |
| Natural Causes | Celia Bryce | 1988 |
| Consuming Passions | Ethel | 1988 |
| After Henry | Sarah France | 1988 |
| The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Moira O'Neill | 1987 |
| French and Saunders | Self / Sybil | 1987 |
| Casualty | Jocelyn Anderson | 1986 |
| Absurd Person Singular | Marion Brewster-Wright | 1985 |
| Mapp & Lucia | Miss Elizabeth Mapp | 1985 |
| Aspel & Company | Self - Guest | 1984 |
| The Wicked Lady | Lady Kingsclere | 1983 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Mistress Page | 1982 |
| Bergerac | Gloria Gibbins | 1981 |
| Never the Twain | Susan Peel | 1981 |
| Children In Need | Sybil Fawlty / Self | 1980 |
| Did You See..? | Self | 1980 |
| Antiques Roadshow | Sybil Fawlty | 1979 |
| Doris and Doreen | Doris / Doris Rutter | 1978 |
| The Boys from Brazil | Mrs. Harrington | 1978 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Glynis | 1978 |
| Lucky Feller | Wedding Guest / The Farmer's Wife | 1976 |
| The Littlest Horse Thieves | Mrs. Sandman | 1976 |
| Fawlty Towers | Sybil Fawlty | 1975 |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Florence Farr | 1974 |
| 7 of 1 | Marion Joyce | 1973 |
| Country Matters | Babs Pickard | 1972 |
| Whodunnit? | Self - Panellist | 1972 |
| Crime of Passion | Adele Breteau | 1970 |
| Jackanory | Storyteller | 1965 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Queen Jemima | 1965 |
| Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre | Marie | 1965 |
| Horizon | Florence Hastings | 1964 |
| Saki | Mrs. Lapping | 1962 |
| Waltz of the Toreadors | Estella Fitzjohn | 1962 |
| Comedy Playhouse | Dolly | 1961 |
| Call Oxbridge 2000 | Andrea Newton | 1961 |
| The Marriage Lines | Kate Starling | 1961 |
| Room at the Top | Council Office Worker | 1959 |
| ITV Play of the Week | Barmaid / Grace Kennion / Morag | 1955 |
| ITV Television Playhouse | Mrs. Pepys / Joy Miller / Gabrielle | 1955 |
| Shop Spoiled | Customer | 1954 |
| What Every Woman Wants | Mary | 1954 |
| Hobson's Choice | Vicky Hobson | 1954 |
| Scotch on the Rocks | Morag McLeod | 1953 |
