Prunella Scales
Connu pour: Acting
Anniversaire: 1932-06-22
Lieu de naissance: Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Aussi connu sous le nom: Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth
Wolf
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a...
Libération : 1994.06.17Popularité : 12.218
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives...
Libération : 2007.10.18Popularité : 4.409
Emma
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful...
Libération : 1996.10.02Popularité : 18.805
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident...
Libération : 1987.12.23Popularité : 4.157
Waltz of the Toreadors
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire,...
Libération : 1962.04.12Popularité : 4.514
Hobson's Choice
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for...
Libération : 1954.04.19Popularité : 17.841
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Satirical drama by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Sam Hobkinson. Visiting her father Lord Moping in the county asylum, Angela meets a fellow inmate who...
Libération : 2006.05.07Popularité : 0.803
Breaking the Code
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking...
Libération : 1996.09.17Popularité : 2.767
A Question of Attribution
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the...
Libération : 1991.10.20Popularité : 2.588
Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties....
Libération : 1998.06.12Popularité : 2.375
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to...
Libération : 1992.08.14Popularité : 2.989
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Sheila and Bri share their struggles as they raise a severely handicapped daughter in this recorded performance of the play by Peter Nicholls....
Libération : 2002.03.13Popularité : 2.227
A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the...
Libération : 1989.08.18Popularité : 4.849
Consuming Passions
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless...
Libération : 1988.04.06Popularité : 3.841
What the Butler Saw
White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this...
Libération : 1987.05.23Popularité : 2.39
The Phone Call
Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will...
Libération : 2013.10.20Popularité : 4.641
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Fawlty Towers Revisited features the 80-minute, 30th anniversary retrospective TV special on one of the world’s funniest and best-loved...
Libération : 2005.12.01Popularité : 3.44
An Ideal Husband
Rising politician Robert Chiltern once sold secret information and is now being blackmailed by Laura Cheveley. She has proof, and it will damage his...
Libération : 1999.05.18Popularité : 2.237
Second Best
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Libération : 1994.09.30Popularité : 7.281
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
Libération : 2014.05.24Popularité : 3.255
Dirty Beasts
Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable...
Libération : 1990.01.02Popularité : 2.943
Revolting Rhymes
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
Libération : 1990.01.02Popularité : 2.078
The Wicked Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady,...
Libération : 1983.04.21Popularité : 8.077
Run For Your Wife
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell....
Libération : 2012.05.16Popularité : 8.99
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Libération : 2009.05.10Popularité : 3.834
The Littlest Horse Thieves
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...
Libération : 1976.05.26Popularité : 4.304
An Audience with Alf Garnett
In front of a celebrity audience Johnny Speight's bigoted comic creation Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) vents his spleen on all manner of...
Libération : 1997.04.05Popularité : 0.95
Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Libération : 1959.01.22Popularité : 8.909
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a...
Libération : 2000.10.06Popularité : 1.186
Beyond The Pale
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite...
Libération : 1989.08.30Popularité : 0.945
Doris and Doreen
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
Libération : 1978.12.16Popularité : 1.191
The Apple Cart
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of...
Libération : 1975.01.19Popularité : 0.661
What Every Woman Wants
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile,...
Libération : 1954.06.10Popularité : 2.182
An Awfully Big Adventure
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...
Libération : 1995.05.11Popularité : 4.975
Station Jim
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon...
Libération : 2001.12.30Popularité : 3.325
What the Pythons Did Next...
A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's...
Libération : 2007.01.01Popularité : 1.984
Lord of Misrule
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house....
Libération : 1996.05.06Popularité : 2.534
Natural Causes
Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate his rich, neurotic wife, Celia. All this to...
Libération : 1988.09.11Popularité : 0.628
Fair Game
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a...
Libération : 1994.06.11Popularité : 1.305
Howards End
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who,...
Libération : 1992.03.13Popularité : 14.277
Outside Edge
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good...
Libération : 1982.12.19Popularité : 0.752
Horrid Henry: The Movie
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him...
Libération : 2011.07.29Popularité : 13.958
The Boys from Brazil
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Libération : 1978.10.05Popularité : 13.978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to...
Libération : 1978.08.01Popularité : 3.201
Mad Cows
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends...
Libération : 1999.10.29Popularité : 3.693
The Merry Wives of Windsor
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....
Libération : 1982.12.28Popularité : 1.775
Laxdale Hall
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their...
Libération : 1953.04.01Popularité : 1.216
My Friend Walter
Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh,...
Libération : 1992.04.24Popularité : 0.976
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into...
Libération : 1990.12.26Popularité : 3.169
Home Cooking
The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.
Libération : 1986.11.08Popularité : 1.803
Sub Rosa
Sub Rosa observes the 8 year old Tilda, she lives with her grandmother who runs a flower shop. The young girl roams around freely and discovers a...
Libération : 2014.01.01Popularité : 12.667
When We Are Married
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth...
Libération : 1987.12.26Popularité : 2.936
Absurd Person Singular
A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated...
Libération : 1985.10.23Popularité : 1.51