Prunella Scales

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Career

Scales began working at the Bristol Old Vic in 1951 as an assistant stage manager. She has often been cast in comedic roles throughout her career. Her early work included the (now believed to be lost) second UK adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1952), Laxdale Hall (1954), Hobson's Favor (1959) and Waltz of the Toreadors (1962).

Richard Briers was cast opposite her in the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines. Sybil Fawlty Towers' most popular actress appeared in two series in 1975 and 1979. In addition to this, she has appeared in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, Smelling of Roses, and Ladies of Letters; on television, she appeared in the London Weekend Television/Channel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on E. F. Benson's novels. In Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, she played Queen Elizabeth II.

Scales appeared in One Man's Meat, Ronnie Barker's 1973 film, as well as the BBC. She had appeared in numerous films including Escape From the Dark (1976), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), The Wicked Lady (1983), Consuming Passions (1989), Wolf (1994), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), and Stiff Upper Lips (1997). Elizabeth Prentice appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) as Mistress Page and in the Theatre Night series (BBC) She appeared in the Joe Orton farce What the Butler Saw (1987) playing Mrs Prentice (1987).

Scales appeared in advertisements for UK supermarket chain Tesco for ten years, as "Dotty" Turnbull, alongside Jane Horrocks as her character's daughter, Kate Neall. Scales appeared in the television film Lord of Misrule, starring Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer, and Stephen Moyer in 1996. Guy Jenkins was filming in Fowey, Cornwall, and the film was shot by the end. In Jane Austen's Emma in 1996, she appeared as Miss Bates again. Scales appeared in Chris Barfoot's science-fiction film short Phoenix, which first aired on NBCUniversal's Sci-Fi Channel in 1999. Scales performed The Client, an evil government minister funding inter-genetic time travel experiments. She appeared in Minny Stinkler's comedy film Mad Cows, directed by Sara Sugarman the same year. In 1993, Scales introduced Mrs Tiggy-Winkle to The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.

Scales appeared in the film The Ghost of Greville Lodge in 2000 as Sarah. Eleanor Bunsall appeared in Midsomer Murders' "Beyond the Grave" for the same year. In 2001, she appeared in two episodes of Silent Witness' "Faith" as Mrs Parker. In four BBC Radio 4 plays, Hilda, "she who must be obeyed," was the wife of Horace Rumpole's husband, with Timothy West playing her fictional husband in 2003. Scales and West toured Australia at the same time in different forms. Scales appeared in An Evening with Queen Victoria, which also featured tenor Ian Partridge's written by Prince Albert. Scales has appeared in theaters around the world more than 400 times as Queen Victoria.

Scales also addressed the eponymous robbery of Magpie in a recording of Gioachino Rossini's opera La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) in 2003.

Scales appeared in the Academy Award-winning Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell in the mini-series The Shell Seekers in 2006.

Scales appeared in Children in Need on November 16, 2007, reserving her role as Sybil Fawlty, the current boss who wants to take over Hotel Babylon. In an interview on May 8, 2009, John Cleese said that the role of Sybil Fawlty was first offered to Bridget Turner, but she turned down the role because "it wasn't right for her."

Scales appeared in the audio play The Youth of Old Age, which was produced by the Wireless Theatre Company in 2008 and is available for download free of charge on their website. Mrs Mackenzie appeared on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple "A Pocket Full of Rye" in 2008.

Scales appeared in a performance of Carrie's War, the Nina Bawden novel, at the West End Apollo Theatre in 2009. Despite mixed feedback, the operation was fruitful. Scales was the most notable feature of the show, according to Ben Bradley, writer for The New York Times Arts & Beats, "[playing] a wealthy, Miss Havisham-like eccentric, who walks through her house in evening gowns."

Scales appeared in the 2011 British live-action 3D family comedy film Horrid Henry: The Movie as the titular character's Great Aunt Greta. Dandruff Hits the Turtleneck, a John Mayfield-written short story, is available for download and can be downloaded. Scales appeared in a short film titled "Stranger Danger" with Roderick Cowie in 2012. Wendy Crieff, Captain Martin Crieff's mother, appeared in the famous BBC radio comedy Cabin Pressure in 2013.

Scales and her husband West were both in Great Canal Journeys for ten episodes on Channel 4 from 2014 before her declining health brought her television work to an end. It "is actually a story about a committed couple facing something significant together," Stuart Heritage, a writer for The Guardian in November 2016. It's a beautiful, meditative program." Christopher Howse's characterization of life with dementia in October 2018 was "an emotional but unrooted glimpse of life with dementia," he wrote for The Telegraph. "Since the first instalment of Alzheimer's in 2014, the series has charted the long, slow death of dementia, valuing every moment of precious normality, and celebrating how immersion in nature is the only way to bring the old Pru back."

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