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She played her most famous role, Sybil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers, over two series in 1975 and 1979.
Fawlty Towers: With John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth. Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
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Nov 15, 2023 · Scales will forever be most closely identified with the domineering and long-suffering comedy creation Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, best defined by one bark of "Basil".
Prunella Scales was born on 22 June 1932 in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Howards End (1992), Fawlty Towers (1975) and Wolf (1994). She has been married to Timothy West since 26 October 1963.
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- She appeared in one of the all-time great British sitcoms. In a way, Scales played the "straight man" in Fawlty Towers, which ran for just two seasons in 1975 and 1979.
- She really made the role her own. In this clip from a Fawlty Towers retrospective show, Cleese reveals that he and co-writer Connie Booth (who played Polly in the show) were a little "worried" about Scales' performance after the first day, But once they looked back at footage the following morning, they realized that she had made the character "even better" than they had imagined.
- She also starred in some much-loved British TV commercials. From 1995 to 2004, Scales played Dotty in adverts for U.K. supermarket chain Tesco. Many of the commercials pivoted on the fact that Dotty's daughter (Jane Horrocks) thought her persnickety mother was expecting a little too much from Tesco's sales staff.
- She has a long and happy marriage to fellow actor Timothy West. Scales and West have been married since 1963 and have three children together. "I am famous for playing unfortunate wives, but I have been a very lucky wife," Scales told The Guardian in 2012.
Waldorf Salad: Directed by Bob Spiers. With John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth. Customer dissatisfaction with the Fawlty Towers dining experience comes to a head when an insistent American comes for a stay.
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