Prunella Scales



First NamePrunella
Last NameScales
Age79
Date of BirthJune 22, 1932
Height5' 3½" (161 cm)
Star SignCancer
Occupation CategoryActress
Claim to FameFawlty Towers

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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Filmography

Selected Prunella Scales film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

2011
Great Aunt Greta

2008
Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye
Mrs Mackenzie

2007
Think
Customer

2006
Helix
Gemima Barrington-Law

2006
Dolly Keeling

2006
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Lady Moping

2004
Brand Spanking
Voice of Morphinalax

2003
The Queen

2003
Looking for Victoria
Presenter, Queen Victoria

2003
Red Amiral

2002
Dickens
Elizabeth Dickens

2001
Station Jim
Queen Victoria

2000
An Ideal Husband
Lady Markby

2000
Animated Tales of the World
Narrator

1999
Dr. Minny Stinkler

1999
The Big Knights
Queen Melissa

1998
Aunt Agnes

1997
Phoenix
The Client

1997
Keeping Mum
Marjorie

1997
Eleanor Bunsall

1997
Hattie Dymchurch

1996
Breaking the Code
Sara Turing

1996
Miss Bates

1996
Edith Disney

1996
Dennis the Menace
Mrs. Duffel

1996
Anne Parker

1996
Lord of Misrule
Shirley

1995
Signs and Wonders
Elizabeth Palmore

1995
The World of Lee Evans
Mother

1995
Look at the State We're In!
Storyteller

1995
Searching
Mrs. Tilston

1994
Sherwood's Travels
-

1994
Margery

1994
Maude

1994
Fair Game
Marjorie

1994
The Rector's Wife
Marjorie Richardson

1994
Woodcock
Captain

1992
Queen, Various Voices

1992
Aunt Juley

1992
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

1992
My Friend Walter
Aunt Elle

1988
Hannah Ap Llewellyn

1988
Ethel

1988
After Henry
Sarah France

1988
Thompson
-

1988
Natural Causes
Celia Bryce

1987
When We Are Married
Annie Parker

1986
Jocelyn Anderson

1986
Screenplay
Milly

1986
Unnatural Causes
Judith

1985
Mapp & Lucia
Miss Elizabeth Mapp, Elizabeth Mapp

1985
Screen One
H.M.Q.

1985
Absurd Person Singular
Marion Brewster-Wright

1984
Weekend Playhouse
Olive Dodd

1983
Lady Kingsclere

1983
Wagner
Frau Pollert

1982
Outside Edge
Miriam

1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Page

1982
S.W.A.L.K.
Aunt Patty

1981
Bergerac
Gloria Gibbins

1981
Never the Twain
Susan Peel

1978
Mrs. Harrington

1978
Doris and Doreen
Doris Rutter

1978
Pickersgill People
-

1977
Target
Diana Blake

1977
Mr. Big
Dolly

1976
Mrs. Sandman

1975
Sybil Fawlty

1975
Lucky Feller
Farmer's wife

1974
The Big Job
Dolly

1974
BBC2 Playhouse
Florence Farr

1973
Marion Joyce

1972
Babs Pickard

1972
Full House
Thelma

1966
On the Margin
-

1965
Jackanory
Storyteller

1965
BBC Play of the Month
Queen Jemima

1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
-

1962
Estella Fitzjohn

1962
Saki
Mrs. Lapping

1961
Dolly

1961
Marriage Lines
Kate Starling

1961
The Seven Faces of Jim
-

1960
Eileen Hughes

1960
The Secret Garden
Martha

1960
Inside Story
Jean

1960
BBC Sunday-Night Play
Maud Murch

1959
Council Office Worker

1958
A Christmas Night with the Stars
Kate Starling

1958
Saturday Playhouse
Joan Deal

1955
ITV Play of the Week
Grace Kennion, Morag

1955
ITV Television Playhouse
Gabrielle, Joy Miller

1954
Vicky Hobson

1954
Eunice - Customer

1954
What Every Woman Wants
Mary

1953
Scotch on the Rocks
Morag McLeod

1952
Pride and Prejudice
Lydia Bennet

1950
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
Prudence Buckland

Theatre Night
Mrs Prentice






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