Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales is credited on 21 movies and 9 TV shows, best known by TMDB votes for Fawlty Towers, Wolf and Howards End.
Born June 22, 1932 in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK; died October 27, 2025.
Filmography · 30 titles
US streaming apps shown for the 12 best-known titles, checked October 5, 2026. Tap any title for where it streams and what it costs.
Fawlty Towers
1975 · TV show
On Britbox and BritBox
Wolf
1994 · Movie
Free with ads on Xumo Play
Howards End
1992 · Movie
On Cohen Media
The Boys from Brazil
1978 · Movie
On Prime Video and YouTube TV
Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV show
On fuboTV and YouTube TV
Hobson's Choice
1954 · Movie
On HBO Max and Shout! Factory
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV show
On Hulu and Britbox
Room at the Top
1958 · Movie
On fuboTV and Shout! Factory
Emma
1996 · Movie
On Prime Video and fuboTV
Silent Witness
1996 · TV show
On HBO Max and fuboTV
The Phone Call
2013 · Movie
Free with ads on Kanopy
Casualty
1986 · TV show
On Britbox
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011 · Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Movie
Second Best
1994 · Movie
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987 · Movie
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · TV show
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992 · Movie
Bergerac
1981 · TV show
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Movie
The Wicked Lady
1983 · Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978 · Movie
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996 · TV show
Breaking the Code
1996 · Movie
The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976 · Movie
Never the Twain
1981 · TV show
Stiff Upper Lips
1998 · Movie
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962 · Movie
Mad Cows
1999 · Movie
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Movie
About Prunella Scales
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)...
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