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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.

The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self

Great Canal Journeys
as Self

Sub Rosa
as Madame

The Phone Call
as Joan

Run For Your Wife
as Woman in Pub

Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Great Aunt Greta

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Sybil Fawlty

The Shell Seekers
as Dolly Keeling
Think
as Customer

What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Lady Moping

Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)

Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs Mackenzie
Looking for Victoria
as Self / Victoria

The Royal
as Red Admiral

Dickens
as Elizabeth Dickens
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
as Grace
Station Jim
as Queen Victoria

The Ghost of Greville Lodge
as Sarah

Mad Cows
as Dr. Minny Stinkler

Loose Women
as Self

An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby

Stiff Upper Lips
as Aunt Agnes

Keeping Mum
as Marjorie

An Audience with Alf Garnett

Midsomer Murders
as Eleanor Bunsall

Emma
as Miss Bates

Breaking the Code
as Sara Turing
Lord of Misrule
as Shirley

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Mrs. Duffel

Dalziel and Pascoe
as Edith Disney

Silent Witness
as Anne Parker

The World of Lee Evans
as Mother
Look at the State We're In!
as Storyteller

An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose

Signs and Wonders
as Elizabeth Palmore

Second Best
as Margery

Wolf
as Maude Waggins

Fair Game
as Marjorie

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice)

The Rector's Wife
as Marjorie Richardson

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)

My Friend Walter
as Aunt Ellie

Howards End
as Aunt Juley

A Question of Attribution
as H.M.Q.

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Fleecy Flock

Dirty Beasts
as Narrator

Revolting Rhymes
as Narrator

Screen One
as H.M.Q.

Beyond The Pale
as Milly

A Chorus of Disapproval
as Hannah Ap Llewellyn

Bosses From Hell

Communicators From Hell
Thompson

Natural Causes
as Celia Bryce

Consuming Passions
as Ethel

After Henry
as Sarah France

When We Are Married
as Annie Parker