Prunella Scales
Birthday: 1932-06-22
Place of Birth: Sutton 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
Wolf
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his j...
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The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...
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Emma
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is ...
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She mak...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and s...
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Hobson's Choice
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll ...
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Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Satirical drama by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Sam Hobkinson. Visiting her father Lord Moping in the co...
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Breaking the Code
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital co...
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A Question of Attribution
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers...
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Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory pro...
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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorc...
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A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Sheila and Bri share their struggles as they raise a severely handicapped daughter in this recorded ...
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A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a w...
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Consuming Passions
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic acci...
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What the Butler Saw
White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s ...
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The Phone Call
Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mys...
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Fawlty Towers Revisited
Fawlty Towers Revisited features the 80-minute, 30th anniversary retrospective TV special on one of ...
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An Ideal Husband
Rising politician Robert Chiltern once sold secret information and is now being blackmailed by Laura...
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Second Best
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son....
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy f...
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Dirty Beasts
Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doin...
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Revolting Rhymes
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of th...
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The Wicked Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara sedu...
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Run For Your Wife
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie ...
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of th...
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The Littlest Horse Thieves
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit pon...
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An Audience with Alf Garnett
In front of a celebrity audience Johnny Speight's bigoted comic creation Alf Garnett (played by Warr...
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Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in ...
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The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Grea...
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Beyond The Pale
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This ...
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Doris and Doreen
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs....
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The Apple Cart
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as th...
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What Every Woman Wants
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s pa...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre t...
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Station Jim
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes hi...
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What the Pythons Did Next...
A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terr...
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Lord of Misrule
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspape...
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Natural Causes
Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate h...
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Fair Game
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to Engl...
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Howards End
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the ...
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Outside Edge
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of ...
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Horrid Henry: The Movie
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this ...
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The Boys from Brazil
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele,...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
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Mad Cows
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newl...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
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Laxdale Hall
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the resid...
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My Friend Walter
Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals h...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captai...
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Home Cooking
The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rap...
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Sub Rosa
Sub Rosa observes the 8 year old Tilda, she lives with her grandmother who runs a flower shop. The y...
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When We Are Married
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually m...
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Absurd Person Singular
A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. Th...
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Slimming Down
Mr. Shrigley, a small businessman dealing in office equipment, believes that the recession happens t...
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The Achurch Letters
1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly cha...
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The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is a sitcom that needs no introduction for those familiar with British comedy, and yet...
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The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store....
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Singles
Set on the international tennis circuit, tension mounts in the dressing room as a major quarter-fina...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 5. While searching for her somewhere lost handkerch...
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