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Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Birthday: 1932-06-22 | Place of Birth: Sutton Abinger, Surrey, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Prunella Scales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2013
The Phone Call

as    Joan

2011
Horrid Henry: The Movie

as    Great Aunt Greta

1999
Stiff Upper Lips

as    Aunt Agnes

1996
Emma

as    Miss Bates

1996
Breaking the Code

as    Sara Turing

1995
An Awfully Big Adventure

as    Rose

1992
Howards End

as    Aunt Juley

1992
Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as    Queen (voice)

1990
Dirty Beasts

as    Narrator

1990
Revolting Rhymes

as    Narrator

1989
A Chorus of Disapproval

as    Hannah Ap Llewellyn

1983
The Wicked Lady

as    Lady Kingsclere

1975
Fawlty Towers

as    Sybil Fawlty

1962
Waltz of the Toreadors

as    Estella Fitzjohn

1954
Hobson's Choice

as    Vicky Hobson

1953
Laxdale Hall

as    Morag McLeod