Prunella Scales: movies and TV shows
Prunella Scales has 104 credits in the archive: 64 films and 40 TV series, from 1952 to 2025. Highest rated: Consuming Passions (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1952 – 2025 · busiest year: 1996 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers | Film | — | 93 | |
| 2014 | Great Canal Journeys | Self | TV | 8.8 | 82 |
| 2014 | Sub Rosa | Madame | Film | 5.0 | 82 |
| 2014 | 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy | Self | Film | 8.0 | 82 |
| 2013 | The Phone Call | Joan | Film | 7.3 | 81 |
| 2012 | Run For Your Wife | Woman in Pub | Film | 4.4 | 80 |
| 2011 | Horrid Henry: The Movie | Great Aunt Greta | Film | 5.2 | 79 |
| 2009 | Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened | Self / Sybil Fawlty | Film | 8.4 | 77 |
| 2007 | Think | Customer | Film | — | 75 |
| 2007 | What the Pythons Did Next... | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2007 | The Shell Seekers | Dolly Keeling | Film | 6.9 | 75 |
| 2006 | Mr. Loveday's Little Outing | Lady Moping | Film | — | 74 |
| 2005 | The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 73 |
| 2005 | Fawlty Towers Revisited | Herself | Film | 5.0 | 73 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Mrs Mackenzie | TV | 7.8 | 72 |
| 2003 | The Royal | Red Admiral | TV | 7.8 | 71 |
| 2003 | Looking for Victoria | Self / Victoria | TV | — | 71 |
| 2002 | Dickens | Elizabeth Dickens | TV | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2002 | A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg | Grace | Film | — | 70 |
| 2001 | Station Jim | Queen Victoria | Film | 7.5 | 69 |
| 2000 | The Ghost of Greville Lodge | Sarah | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 1999 | Loose Women | Self | TV | 3.4 | 67 |
| 1999 | Mad Cows | Dr. Minny Stinkler | Film | 4.4 | 67 |
| 1999 | An Ideal Husband | Lady Markby | Film | 6.5 | 67 |
| 1998 | Stiff Upper Lips | Aunt Agnes | Film | 5.6 | 66 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Eleanor Bunsall | TV | 7.5 | 65 |
| 1997 | Keeping Mum | Marjorie | TV | — | 65 |
| 1997 | An Audience with Alf Garnett | Film | — | 65 | |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | Anne Parker | TV | 7.6 | 64 |
| 1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Edith Disney | TV | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1996 | Dennis the Menace and Gnasher | Mrs. Duffel | TV | 6.3 | 64 |
| 1996 | Emma | Miss Bates | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 1996 | Breaking the Code | Sara Turing | Film | 5.5 | 64 |
| 1996 | Lord of Misrule | Shirley | Film | 9.0 | 64 |
| 1995 | Look at the State We're In! | Storyteller | TV | — | 63 |
| 1995 | An Awfully Big Adventure | Rose | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1995 | Signs and Wonders | Elizabeth Palmore | TV | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1995 | The World of Lee Evans | Mother | TV | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1994 | Wolf | Maude Waggins | Film | 6.1 | 62 |
| 1994 | Fair Game | Marjorie | Film | 4.8 | 62 |
| 1994 | The Rector's Wife | Marjorie Richardson | TV | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1994 | Second Best | Margery | Film | 6.8 | 62 |
| 1994 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher | Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (voice) | Film | — | 62 |
| 1992 | Howards End | Aunt Juley | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1992 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Queen (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 1992 | My Friend Walter | Aunt Ellie | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1991 | A Question of Attribution | H.M.Q. | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 1990 | Dirty Beasts | Narrator | Film | — | 58 |
| 1990 | Revolting Rhymes | Narrator | Film | — | 58 |
| 1990 | The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Fleecy Flock | Film | — | 58 |
| 1989 | Screen One | H.M.Q. | TV | 7.2 | 57 |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Hannah Ap Llewellyn | Film | 5.4 | 57 |
| 1989 | Bosses From Hell | Film | — | 57 | |
| 1989 | Communicators From Hell | Film | — | 57 | |
| 1989 | Beyond The Pale | Milly | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1988 | After Henry | Sarah France | TV | 6.4 | 56 |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Ethel | Film | 8.3 | 56 |
| 1988 | Thompson | TV | 5.0 | 56 | |
| 1988 | Natural Causes | Celia Bryce | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1987 | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Moira O'Neill | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 1987 | When We Are Married | Annie Parker | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1987 | What the Butler Saw | Mrs Prentice | Film | 3.0 | 55 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Jocelyn Anderson | TV | 6.2 | 54 |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | Milly | TV | 6.0 | 54 |
| 1986 | Unnatural Causes | Judith | TV | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1986 | Home Cooking | Judith | Film | — | 54 |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | Mrs. Prentice | TV | — | 53 |
| 1985 | Mapp & Lucia | Miss Elizabeth Mapp | TV | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1985 | Absurd Person Singular | Marion Brewster-Wright | Film | 8.3 | 53 |
| 1984 | Weekend Playhouse | Olive Dodd | TV | — | 52 |
| 1984 | Slimming Down | Mrs. Shrigley | Film | — | 52 |
| 1983 | The Wicked Lady | Lady Kingsclere | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 1983 | Singles | Gail | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1982 | S.W.A.L.K. | Patti | TV | 0.5 | 50 |
| 1982 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Mistress Page | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1982 | Outside Edge | Miriam | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1981 | Bergerac | Gloria Gibbins | TV | 6.7 | 49 |
| 1981 | Never the Twain | Susan Peel | TV | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | TV | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Mistress Page | TV | 6.0 | 46 |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil | Mrs. Harrington | Film | 6.7 | 46 |
| 1978 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Glynis | Film | 4.4 | 46 |
| 1978 | Doris and Doreen | Doris Rutter | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1977 | Target | Diana Blake | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1977 | The Achurch Letters | Florence Farr | Film | — | 45 |
| 1976 | The Littlest Horse Thieves | Mrs. Sandman | Film | 6.9 | 44 |
| 1975 | Fawlty Towers | Sybil Fawlty | TV | 8.3 | 43 |
| 1975 | The Apple Cart | Queen Jemima | Film | — | 43 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Florence Farr | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1973 | Seven of One | Marion Joyce | TV | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1973 | The Ring of Truth | Babs Pickard | Film | — | 41 |
| 1972 | Country Matters | Babs Pickard | TV | 4.6 | 40 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 39 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Queen Jemima | TV | 5.3 | 33 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Marie | TV | 4.2 | 33 |
| 1962 | Waltz of the Toreadors | Estella Fitzjohn | Film | 5.0 | 30 |
| 1961 | Faces of Jim | Laura Morrell | TV | — | 29 |
| 1961 | Marriage Lines | Kate Starling | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1958 | Room at the Top | Council Office Worker (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 26 |
| 1954 | Hobson's Choice | Vicky Hobson | Film | 7.4 | 22 |
| 1954 | The Crowded Day | Customer | Film | 5.8 | 22 |
| 1954 | What Every Woman Wants | Mary | Film | 6.5 | 22 |
| 1953 | Laxdale Hall | Morag McLeod | Film | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1952 | Pride and Prejudice | Lydia Bennet | TV | 9.0 | 20 |