Prunella Scales
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.6096 |
| Birthday | 1932-06-22 |
| Place of Birth | Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth, پرونلا اسکیلز, |
1994
Wolf
6.128/991
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
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Wolf
2007
The Shell Seekers
6.9/7
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives...
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The Shell Seekers
1996
Emma
6.585/135
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are...
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Emma
1987
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
6.467/30
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident...
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1962
Waltz of the Toreadors
4.8/11
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, some...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
1954
Hobson's Choice
7.4/159
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
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Hobson's Choice
2006
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
0/0
Satirical drama by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Sam Hobkinson. Visiting her father Lord Moping in the county asylum, Angela meets a fellow inmate who appe...
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Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
1996
Breaking the Code
5.235/17
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking...
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Breaking the Code
1991
A Question of Attribution
6.667/9
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Cou...
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A Question of Attribution
1998
Stiff Upper Lips
5.2/11
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Alt...
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Stiff Upper Lips
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
5.2/32
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorceress aunt, who kills his father in a bid to seize...
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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
2002
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
0/0
Sheila and Bri share their struggles as they raise a severely handicapped daughter in this recorded performance of the play by Peter Nicholls. Broadca...
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A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
5.348/23
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama...
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A Chorus of Disapproval
1988
Consuming Passions
8/2
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless m...
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Consuming Passions
1987
What the Butler Saw
1/2
White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC produ...
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What the Butler Saw
2013
The Phone Call
7.322/73
Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will...
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The Phone Call
2005
Fawlty Towers Revisited
5/1
Fawlty Towers Revisited features the 80-minute, 30th anniversary retrospective TV special on one of the world’s funniest and best-loved comedies, as w...
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Fawlty Towers Revisited
1999
An Ideal Husband
6.429/7
Rising politician Robert Chiltern once sold secret information and is now being blackmailed by Laura Cheveley. She has proof, and it will damage his c...
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An Ideal Husband
1994
Second Best
6.7/39
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
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Second Best
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
8/2
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
1990
Dirty Beasts
0/0
Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things,...
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Dirty Beasts
1990
Revolting Rhymes
0/0
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
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Revolting Rhymes
1983
The Wicked Lady
4.8/23
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady,...
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The Wicked Lady
2012
Run For Your Wife
4.409/11
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately...
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Run For Your Wife
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
8/4
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves
6.8/12
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three child...
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The Littlest Horse Thieves
1997
An Audience with Alf Garnett
0/0
In front of a celebrity audience Johnny Speight's bigoted comic creation Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) vents his spleen on all manner of sen...
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An Audience with Alf Garnett
1958
Room at the Top
6.9/140
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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Room at the Top
2000
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
6.4/5
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a hol...
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The Ghost of Greville Lodge
1989
Beyond The Pale
0/0
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunt...
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Beyond The Pale
1978
Doris and Doreen
6/1
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
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Doris and Doreen
1975
The Apple Cart
0/0
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "cris...
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The Apple Cart
1954
What Every Woman Wants
6.3/3
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim -...
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What Every Woman Wants
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
6.541/68
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
2001
Station Jim
7/1
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriende...
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Station Jim
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
0/0
A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's Flying...
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What the Pythons Did Next...
1996
Lord of Misrule
0/0
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. Th...
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Lord of Misrule
1988
Natural Causes
8/1
Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate his rich, neurotic wife, Celia. All this to achieve...
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Natural Causes
1994
Fair Game
3.75/4
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student...
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Fair Game
1992
Howards End
6.992/588
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, al...
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Howards End
1982
Outside Edge
6/1
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good...
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Outside Edge
2011
Horrid Henry: The Movie
5.182/96
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him...
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Horrid Henry: The Movie
1978
The Boys from Brazil
6.715/434
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
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The Boys from Brazil
1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
4.3/28
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1999
Mad Cows
3.9/10
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up...
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Mad Cows
1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
8/2
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. Wh...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
1953
Laxdale Hall
6/2
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their ro...
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Laxdale Hall
1992
My Friend Walter
0/0
Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, dete...
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My Friend Walter
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
0/0
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believi...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1986
Home Cooking
0/0
The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.
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Home Cooking
2014
Sub Rosa
5/4
Sub Rosa observes the 8 year old Tilda, she lives with her grandmother who runs a flower shop. The young girl roams around freely and discovers a worl...
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Sub Rosa
1987
When We Are Married
0/0
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth...
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When We Are Married
1985
Absurd Person Singular
8/2
A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated t...
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Absurd Person Singular
1984
Slimming Down
0/0
Mr. Shrigley, a small businessman dealing in office equipment, believes that the recession happens to other people. Unfortunately he is wrong, and, wh...
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Slimming Down
1977
The Achurch Letters
0/0
1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.
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The Achurch Letters
1989
Bosses From Hell
0/0
John Cleese training video about bosses.
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Bosses From Hell
1989
Communicators From Hell
0/0
John Cleese training video.
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Communicators From Hell
2025
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
0/0
Fawlty Towers is a sitcom that needs no introduction for those familiar with British comedy, and yet it only lasted for two short series with a total...
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The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
1954
The Crowded Day
5.4/8
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Crowded Day
1983
Singles
6/1
Set on the international tennis circuit, tension mounts in the dressing room as a major quarter-final approaches.
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Singles
1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
0/0
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 5. While searching for her somewhere lost handkerchiefs, little Lucie meets Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, a hedg...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
2007
Think
0/0
A customer's and shop keeper's plastic bag habits are questioned.
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Think
1973
The Ring of Truth
0/0
After his father's death, George Pickard has a strange dream where his father tells him he's traveling to the small town of Skelby Moor. His father, A...
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The Ring of Truth
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
6/1
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
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