Prunella Scales
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) 
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton… 
- Bruising comedy with an elderly general struggling to come to terms with impending retirement and his ruinous personal life.
 
Marriage Lines (TV Series) (1963-1965) 
- Feat. Prunella Scales, Richard Briers
 
- A classic domestic comedy with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as a newly married couple jumping hurdles both at home and at work. Included here…
 
Helen Mirren at the BBC (1974-1982) 
- Dir. Anthony Page, Claude Whatham, Stuart Burge
Feat. Helen Mirren, Sir Stanley Baker, Brian Cox… 
- Boxed set featuring nine BBC films starring one of the Grand Dames of the British stage and screen, Helen Mirren.
Disc 1: 'The Changeling' (1974)…
 
Fawlty Towers (TV Series) (1975)
 
- Dir. John Howard
Feat. John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth… 
- TV comedy approaches perfection in John Cleese's irreverent, madcap sitcom set in a small West Country hotel. 
Vol. 1: Communication Problems, The…
 
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1978-1992)
 
- Dir. Stuart Burge, John Schlesinger, Richard Eyre
Feat. James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales… 
- An exceptional anthology of previously unreleased BBC productions from revered playwright Alan Bennett.
Collection includes:
– A Day Out…
 
Six Plays by Alan Bennett (1978-1979) 
- Dir. Stephen Frears, Lindsay Anderson, Giles Foster
Feat. Thora Hird, Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge… 
- Six classic plays by Oscar nominated playwright Alan Bennett, produced by Stephen Frears, who also directs four of the six.
ME! I'M AFRAID OF…
 
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1982) 
- Feat. Alan Bennett, Richard Griffiths, Judy Davis…
 
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
 
Mapp and Lucia (TV Mini-series) (1984) 
- Dir. Donald McWhinnie
Feat. Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne… 
- Set in a small seaside town in 1920's England, this comedy of manners is an exquisitely stylised adaptation of E.F Benson's novel. Chronicles the…
 
Natural Causes (1988) 
- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales 
- A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
 
Chorus of Disapproval (1989) 
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales… 
- A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
 
Mad Cows (1999) 
- Dir. Sara Sugarman
Feat. Joanna Lumley, Anna Friel, Prunella Scales 
- Joanne Lumley revives her Ab–Fab persona as a credit card fraudster who helps out a struggling first–time mother – lippy Aussie…
 
Stiff Upper Lips (2000) 
- Dir. Gary Sinyor
Feat. Prunella Scales, Sean Pertwee, Frank Finlay… 
- Genuinely cheeky lampoon of the “Merchant–Ivory” costume–drama with Prunella Scales, Sean Pertwee, Frank Finlay and Peter…
 
Marple (TV Series) [Julia McKenzie] (2009-2011) 
- Dir. John Strickland, Nicholas Renton, Charles Palmer
Feat. Julia McKenzie, Prunella Scales, Rik Mayall… 
- Yet another regeneration of British TV's long–running Agatha Christie serial, with Julia McKenzie taking the reins from Geraldine McEwan, who…
 
Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011) 
- Dir. Nick Moore
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Parminder Nagra, Theo Stevenson… 
- Stink–bomb wielding Henry and his gang of pint–sized terrors fight to save their school from closure. 
Cartoonish kids pic has the…