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Acting

Prunella Scales

Career: Active from 1953 to 2014, with a break from 1963 to 1972, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 31
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Hobson's Choice
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 36 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Prunella Scales Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
2.1, average 4.1
Adrenaline
2.9, average 4.8
Contemporary Realism
3.5, average 5.4
Scare
1.3, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Character Study 4
Psychological Drama 3
Dialogue-Driven 3
Witty Dialogue 3
Nostalgic 3
Social Commentary 3
Coming-of-Age 2
Character-Driven Humor 2
Historical Setting 2
Slow Burn 2
British Sitcom 2
Quirky 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

94

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

4 titles · average score 40

Sub Rosa

as Madame

The Phone Call

78

as Joan

Run For Your Wife

16

as Woman in Pub

Horrid Henry: The Movie

26

as Great Aunt Greta

2000s

10 titles · average score 64

The Shell Seekers

59

as Dolly Keeling

as Customer

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

as Lady Moping

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

as Sybil Fawlty (archive footage) (uncredited)

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Mrs Mackenzie

The Royal

51

TV show · as Red Admiral

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

as Grace

Dickens

TV show · as Elizabeth Dickens

Station Jim

72

as Queen Victoria

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

64

as Sarah

1990s

28 titles · average score 66

An Ideal Husband

as Lady Markby

Stiff Upper Lips

46

as Aunt Agnes

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Eleanor Bunsall

Silent Witness

75

TV show · as Anne Parker

Signs and Wonders

TV show · as Elizabeth Palmore

An Awfully Big Adventure

50

as Rose

Second Best

85

as Margery

Fair Game

as Marjorie

Howards End

83

as Aunt Juley

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

50

as Queen (voice)

My Friend Walter

as Aunt Ellie

A Question of Attribution

72

as H.M.Q.

1980s

26 titles · average score 63

A Chorus of Disapproval

45

as Hannah Ap Llewellyn

After Henry

68

TV show · as Sarah France

Natural Causes

as Celia Bryce

Consuming Passions

54

as Ethel

When We Are Married

as Annie Parker

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

85

as Moira O'Neill

What the Butler Saw

as Mrs Prentice

Casualty

62

TV show · as Jocelyn Anderson

Mapp & Lucia

73

TV show · as Miss Elizabeth Mapp

The Wicked Lady

45

as Lady Kingsclere

Outside Edge

as Miriam

Bergerac

69

TV show · as Gloria Gibbins

1970s

15 titles · average score 58

Doris and Doreen

as Doris Rutter

The Boys from Brazil

62

as Mrs. Harrington

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Mistress Page

The Hound of the Baskervilles

22

as Glynis

Pickersgill People

TV show · as Mavis Blackhead

TV show · as Dolly

Target

TV show · as Diana Blake

The Littlest Horse Thieves

65

as Mrs. Sandman

Fawlty Towers

85

TV show · as Sybil Fawlty

Playhouse

TV show · as Florence Farr

Seven of One

TV show · as Marion Joyce

Country Matters

TV show · as Babs Pickard

1960s

5 titles · average score 55

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Queen Jemima

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Marie

Waltz of the Toreadors

50

as Estella Fitzjohn

Marriage Lines

TV show · as Kate Starling

TV show · as Laura Morrell

1950s

6 titles · average score 74

Room at the Top

84

as Council Office Worker (uncredited)

Hobson's Choice

85

as Vicky Hobson

The Crowded Day

61

as Customer

What Every Woman Wants

as Mary

66

as Morag McLeod

Pride and Prejudice

TV show · as Lydia Bennet