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Prunella Scales
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Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 22 June 1932) is 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.
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Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 22 June 1932) is 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.
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BBC Play of the Month
Agatha Christie's Marple
Target
Midsomer Murders
Bergerac
Fawlty Towers
Silent Witness
The Royal
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Dalziel & Pascoe
Seven of One
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Station Jim
Wolf
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Howards End
An Awfully Big Adventure
Absurd Person Singular
Dickens
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Fair Game
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
When We Are Married
What the Butler Saw
A Question of Attribution
Marriage Lines
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