Prunella Scales

:This article is about the actress, see also Prunella Scales (band).

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Prunella Scales (born June 22 1932) is an English actress best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers.

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June 22 - 1932 - English - British sitcom - Fawlty Towers

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Scales was born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth in Sutton Abinger, Surrey. She has had a long and distinguished career as an actress, mostly in comic roles. Her early film roles included Pride and Prejudice and Hobson's Choice. Her first big break came with the early 1960s sitcom, Marriage Lines, in which she starred opposite Richard Briers. She has had major roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, most notably After Henry, Smelling of Roses and Ladies of Letters. More recently she has been seen in the UK in a series of Tesco supermarket commercials as a domineering mother with Jane Horrocks as her long-suffering daughter.

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Surrey - Pride and Prejudice - Hobson's Choice - 1960s - Richard Briers - BBC Radio 4 - Sitcoms - After Henry - Smelling of Roses - Ladies of Letters - Tesco - Jane Horrocks

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She very nearly got the role of "Eth" in The Glums, part of Take It From Here, written by Frank Muir and Dennis Norden, but was narrowly beaten by June Whitfield.

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Take It From Here - Frank Muir - Dennis Norden - June Whitfield

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She is married to the British actor Timothy West, and their son is the actor Samuel West. In 2003, she appeared as Hilda, alias "she who must be obeyed", wife of Horace Rumpole in a series of four BBC Radio 4 plays, with her husband playing her fictional husband. They are both ambassadors for SOS Children's Charity http://www.sos-uk.org.uk/our-friends.htm.

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Timothy West - Samuel West - 2003 - Horace Rumpole - BBC Radio 4

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Scales 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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Labour Party - Party political broadcast - 2005 UK general election campaign

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