Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actor. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award) and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West. More about Prunella Scales
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Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of Catherine (née Scales), an actress, and John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman. Scales had a younger brother, Timothy "Timmo" Illingworth (1934–2017).In total, we tracked 252 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Prunella Scales (Superb 8x10 photo Basil FAWLTY TOWERS signed JOHN CLEESE, PRUNELLA SCALES +COA) was sold in February 2024 for £174.99 while the cheapest item (Signed Dedicated Prunella Scales Photo) found a new owner for £0.73 in October 2023. The month with the most items sold (9) was February 2023 with an average selling price of £19.99 for an autographed item of Prunella Scales. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2022 with £35.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.82 was December 2017. In average, an autographed item from Prunella Scales is worth £8.50.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Prunella Scales were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
Item Title | Price | Store | |
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1989 Stage And Screen Cover Signed Fawlty Towers' Prunella Scales | £4.99 | ||
Fawlty Towers Marple After Henry Howards End PRUNELLA SCALES hand signed letter | £4.99 | ||
Lovely old hand-signed Prunella Scales photo | £4.00 | ||
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH PRUNELLA SCALES Fawlty Towers | £1.99 | ||
Prunella Scales - Fawlty Towers Actress Signed Album Page | £12.50 | ||
PRUNELLA SCALES autograph(Fawlty Towers) | £4.99 | ||
Prunella Scales, Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, Photo, Hand Signed, Dedicated | £4.99 | ||
PRUNELLA SCALES- FAWTY TOWERS -POSTCARD PHOTO SIGNED - | £6.99 | ||
Signed Dedicated Prunella Scales Photo | £0.73 | ||
Timothy West SIGNED Autobiography (Prunella Scales) | £3.95 |
Great Canal Journeys, review: Touching portrait of Prunella Scales and Timothy W (04/08/14): You don’t often have occasion to compare the veteran British actor Timothy West with a star of Judd Apatow’s bro-mantic comedies, but this week West became Britain’s answer to Seth Rogen when he drew attention to the plight of Alzheimer’s sufferers. Rog
Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales battling 'mild Alzheimer's' (03/30/14): The actress says she will keep going until "the eighth curtain call".
Prunella Scales Refusing To Give Up Acting After Alzheimer's Diagnosis (03/11/14): Veteran British actress Prunella Scales is determined not to give up acting following her diagnosis with a form of Alzheimer's disease.The Fawlty...
Brave Prunella Scales: 'I'll battle Alzheimer's and work till I drop' (03/11/14): FAWLTY Towers star Prunella Scales has talked about her battle against dementia, bravely vowing: “The condition won’t ever stop me working.”
A very bittersweet boat trip: a new series follows Timothy West and Prunella Sca (03/07/14): By turns touching and tragic, a new series follows Timothy West and Prunella Scales on a 50th anniversary narrowboat trip as they come to terms with her Alzheimer’s
Actress Prunella Scales has ‘mild Alzheimer’s’ (03/2014): ACTOR Timothy West has told how his wife, Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales, has been suffering from “a sort of mild Alzheimer’s”.