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The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
Prunella Scales
Acting
Born June 22, 1932Died October 27, 2025Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
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.
Movies
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
5.0
Sub Rosa
2014
7.3
The Phone Call
2013
4.4
Run For Your Wife
2012
5.2
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
8.4
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
6.9
The Shell Seekers
2007
Think
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Think
2007
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What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
0.0
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
2006
8.0
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
6.5
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
0.0
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2002
7.5
Station Jim
2001
7.0
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
4.4
Mad Cows
1999
6.5
An Ideal Husband
1999
5.6
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
0.0
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997
6.6
Emma
1996
5.6
Breaking the Code
1996
Lord of Misrule
9.0
Lord of Misrule
1996
6.5
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
6.7
Second Best
1994
6.1
Wolf
1994
5.0
Fair Game
1994
0.0
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
5.2
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
7.0
My Friend Walter
1992
7.0
Howards End
1992
6.8
A Question of Attribution
1991
0.0
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
8.0
Dirty Beasts
1990
8.0
Revolting Rhymes
1990
7.0
Beyond The Pale
1989
5.4
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
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Bosses From Hell
1989
0.0
Communicators From Hell
1989
8.0
Natural Causes
1988
8.3
Consuming Passions
1988
7.0
When We Are Married
1987
6.6
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
3.0
What the Butler Saw
1987
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Home Cooking
1986
8.3
Absurd Person Singular
1985
0.0
Slimming Down
1984
4.9
The Wicked Lady
1983
Singles
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Singles
1983
8.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
8.0
Outside Edge
1982
6.5
Doris and Doreen
1978
6.7
The Boys from Brazil
1978
4.4
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
0.0
The Achurch Letters
1977
6.9
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976
The Apple Cart
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The Apple Cart
1975
The Ring of Truth
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The Ring of Truth
1973
5.0
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
6.9
Room at the Top
1958
5.8
The Crowded Day
1954
6.6
What Every Woman Wants
1954
7.4
Hobson's Choice
1954
Laxdale Hall
7.0
Laxdale Hall
1953
TV Shows
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8.8
Great Canal Journeys
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
Looking for Victoria
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Looking for Victoria
7.8
The Royal
7.0
Dickens
3.4
Loose Women
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Keeping Mum
7.5
Midsomer Murders
6.3
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
7.6
Silent Witness
Searching
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Searching
7.0
The World of Lee Evans
Look at the State We're In!
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Look at the State We're In!
7.0
Signs and Wonders
9.0
The Rector's Wife
7.2
Screen One
Thompson
5.0
Thompson
6.7
After Henry
6.3
Unnatural Causes
6.2
Casualty
6.0
ScreenPlay
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Theatre Night
6.2
Mapp & Lucia
Weekend Playhouse
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Weekend Playhouse
S.W.A.L.K.
0.5
S.W.A.L.K.
7.0
Bergerac
7.0
Never the Twain
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
0.0
Pickersgill People
5.3
An Audience with...
7.0
Target
Mr Big
7.0
Mr Big
8.3
Fawlty Towers
7.0
Playhouse
7.3
Seven of One
4.6
Country Matters
Film '72
5.1
Film '72
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
4.2
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Faces of Jim
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Faces of Jim
7.0
Marriage Lines
9.0