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Biography

Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth was born June 22th 1932. She's probably most famous for her role as the nosy, shrewish wife Sybil Fawlty on…more

Born

6/22/1932, Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England

Birth Name

Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth

Gender

Female

Credits

Star (6)

Role
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Miss Bates
  - S 37: Ep 13 Emma
    3/23/08
- After Henry
  Sarah France
  - S 4: Ep 6 The Other Married Man (2)
    8/24/92
  - S 4: Ep 5 The Married Man (1)
    8/17/92
  - S 4: Ep 4 Yes and No
    8/10/92
  - S 4: Ep 3 A Fully Extended Family
    8/3/92
  - S 4: Ep 2 Poor Relations
    7/27/92
  - + 33 More Credits
- Mapp and Lucia
  Miss Elizabeth Mapp
  - S 2: Ep 5 Au Reservoir
    5/31/86
  - S 2: Ep 4 Worship
    5/24/86
  - S 2: Ep 3 Lady Bountiful
    5/17/86
  - S 2: Ep 2 Change and Change About
    5/10/86
  - S 2: Ep 1 Winner Takes All
    5/3/86
  - + 5 More Credits
- S.W.A.L.K.
  Aunt Patty
  - S 1: Ep 6 Shaping Up
    12/6/82
  - S 1: Ep 5 Dem Old Dreams Are Only in Your Head
    11/29/82
  - S 1: Ep 4 Saturday Night Fever
    11/22/82
  - S 1: Ep 3 And Baby Makes Three
    11/15/82
  - S 1: Ep 2 Happy Ever After
    11/8/82
  - + 1 More Credits
- Fawlty Towers
  Sybil Fawlty
  - S 2: Ep 6 Basil the Rat
    10/25/79
  - S 2: Ep 5 The Anniversary
    3/26/79
  - S 2: Ep 4 The Kipper and the Corpse
    3/12/79
  - S 2: Ep 3 Waldorf Salad
    3/5/79
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Psychiatrist
    2/26/79
  - + 7 More Credits
- Marriage Lines
  Kate Starling
  - S 5: Ep 7 And Then There Were Five
    6/3/66
  - S 5: Ep 6 First House
    5/27/66
  - S 5: Ep 3 Home Market
    5/6/66
  - S 5: Ep 2 Back To The Beginning
    4/29/66
  - S 5: Ep 1 The New Start
    4/22/66
  - + 39 More Credits
Recurring Role (5)

Role
- Essential Poems
  Reader of Another Christmas Poem by Wendy Cope
  - S 1: Ep 6 Essential Poems For Christmas
    12/23/04
- Essential Poems
  Reader of Christmas Presents by U.A.Fanthorpe
  - S 1: Ep 6 Essential Poems For Christmas
    12/23/04
- Essential Poems
  Reader of a Bath Teashop by Sir John Betjemen
  - S 1: Ep 5 Love in a Life
    2/18/03
- Essential Poems
  Reader of Infidelities by Moyra Donaldson
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Grass is Greener
    2/17/03
- Essential Poems
  Reader of Home is the Hunter by Pamela Gililan
  - S 1: Ep 3 Talking in Bed
    2/16/03
Guest Star (23)

Role
- The Royal
  Red Amiral
  - S 8: Ep 9 Dead Air
    7/10/11
- Agatha Christie's Marple
  Mrs. Mackenzie
  - S 4: Ep 1 A Pocket Full Of Rye
    9/6/09
- Casualty
  Jocelyn Anderson
  - S 19: Ep 3 Out With A Bang
    9/18/04
- Britain's Best Sitcom
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 3 Fawlty Towers
    1/24/04
- This Morning
  Herself
  - S 14: Ep 22 18th September 2001
    9/18/01
- Silent Witness
  Anne Parker
  - S 5: Ep 6 Faith, Part 2
    3/20/01
  - S 5: Ep 5 Faith, Part 1
    3/19/01
- Funny Turns
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 2 Richard Briers: A Good Life
    4/16/00
- Midsomer Murders
  Eleanor Bunsall
  - S 3: Ep 4 Beyond the Grave
    2/5/00
- Loose Women
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 4 Friday 7th January
    1/7/00
- Funny Women
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 1 Prunella Scales
    6/24/98
- Light Lunch
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 8 Married to the Job, Darling
    10/15/97
- Dalziel and Pascoe
  Edith Disney
  - S 1: Ep 2 An Advancement of Learning
    3/23/96
- Look at the State We're In!
  Storyteller
  - S 1: Ep 5 Nanny Knows Best
    6/3/95
- Aspel & Company
  Herself
  - S 9: Ep 7 Joe Cocker, Prunella Scales, Tony Slattery
    3/7/92
- BBC Television Shakespeare
  Margaret Page
  - S 1: Ep 23 The Merry Wives of Windsor
    12/28/82
- Never the Twain
  Susan Peel
  - S 2: Ep 5 lf You Knew Susan
    10/5/82
- Children in Need
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 2 1981 [6 Parts]
    11/20/81
- Bergerac
  Gloria Gibbins
  - S 1: Ep 3 Unlucky Dip
    11/1/81
- Target
  Diana Blake
  - S 2: Ep 2 A Good and Faithful Woman
    9/22/78
- Play of the Month
  Guest Star
  - S 10: Ep 5 The Apple Cart
    1/19/75
  - S 9: Ep 3 The Recruiting Officer
    11/18/73
- Seven of One
  Marion Joyce
  - S 1: Ep 6 One Man's Meat
    4/29/73
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 7: Ep 10 Blues in the Morning
    11/22/71
- Coronation Street
  Eileen Hughes
  - S 2: Ep 15 Fri 24 Feb, 1961
    2/24/61
  - S 2: Ep 12 Wed 15 Feb, 1961
    2/15/61
  - S 2: Ep 11 Wed 8 Feb, 1961
    2/8/61
  - S 2: Ep 6 Fri 20 Jan, 1961
    1/20/61

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- Her movie credits encompass such efforts as Hobson's Choice (1954), The Boys From Brazil (1978), Howard's End (1992) and a little more recently, An Awfully Big Adventure (1995).
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- She is a supporter of the Labour Party, and appeared on a Labour party political broadcast during the 2005 UK general election campaign.
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- Both she and her husband are ambassadors for SOS Children's Charity.
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- Prunella: The joy of being an actor is to deliver good writing to people.
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- Prunella: The agony of doing Shakespeare is that you can't ask him what he meant.
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