Prunella Scales

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 70

Gender Female

Birthday 1932-06-22 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Sutton Abinger, Surrey, UK

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Prunella Scales

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Prunella Scales (born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth) CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress, known for her role as Basil Fawlty's long-suffering wife in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution.

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Acting

2014		50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
2014		Great Canal Journeys (34 episodes) as Self
2014		Sub Rosa as Madame

2013

as Joan

2011

as Great Aunt Greta

2009

as Sybil Fawlty / herself

2007

as Dolly Keeling

2006

as Lady Moping

2005

as Herself

2003

(1 episode) as Red Admiral

2002		Dickens (3 episodes)
2002		A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg as Grace

2001

as Queen Victoria

2000

1999		Mad Cows as Dr. Minny Stinkler
1999		An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby

1998

as Aunt Agnes

1997

(1 episode)

1996		Emma as Miss Bates
1996		Breaking the Code as Sara Turing
1996		Lord of Misrule as Shirley
1996		Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (1 episode) as Mrs. Duffel
1996		Dalziel and Pascoe (1 episode)
1996		Silent Witness (1 episode)

1995		An Awfully Big Adventure as Rose
1995		The World of Lee Evans (1 episode) as Mother

1994		Wolf as Maude Waggins
1994		Fair Game as Marjorie
1994		The Rector's Wife (4 episodes) as Marjorie Richardson

1992		Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Queen (voice)
1992		My Friend Walter as Aunt Ellie
1992		Howards End as Aunt Juley

1991

as H.M.Q.

1990		The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Fleecy Flock
1990		Dirty Beasts as Narrator
1990		Revolting Rhymes as Narrator

1989

as Hannah Ap Llewellyn

1988		Thompson (1 episode)
1988		Natural Causes as Celia Bryce
1988		Consuming Passions as Ethel
1988		After Henry (39 episodes)

1987		When We Are Married as Annie Parker
1987		The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Moira O'Neill
1987		What the Butler Saw

1986		Home Cooking as Judith
1986		Casualty (1 episode) as Jocelyn Anderson

1985		Absurd Person Singular as Marion Brewster-Wright
1985		Mapp & Lucia (10 episodes)

1983

as Lady Kingsclere

1982		The Merry Wives of Windsor as Mistress Page
1982		Outside Edge as Miriam

1981

(1 episode) as Gloria Gibbins

1978		Doris and Doreen as Doris Rutter
1978		BBC Television Shakespeare (1 episode)
1978		The Boys from Brazil as Mrs. Harrington
1978		The Hound of the Baskervilles as Glynis
1978		An Audience with... (2 episodes) as Self

1977

(1 episode)

1976		Lucky Feller (1 episode)
1976		The Littlest Horse Thieves as Mrs. Sandman

1975		Fawlty Towers Remastered (6 episodes) as Sybil Fawlty
1975		Fawlty Towers (12 episodes) as Sybil Fawlty
1975		The Apple Cart as Queen Jemima

1973

(1 episode)

1962

as Estella Fitzjohn

1961

(43 episodes)

1954		What Every Woman Wants as Mary
1954		Hobson's Choice as Vicky Hobson

1953

as Morag McLeod

1952

(6 episodes) as Lydia Bennet

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- Movies 47
- TV Shows 23
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- Acting 71

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