Cast: Prunella Scales

Direction John Cleese · Connie Booth · John Howard Davies · Bob Spiers

Cast John Cleese · Prunella Scales · Andrew Sachs · Connie Booth

Plot TV Series (1975-1979). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

Direction David Lean

Cast Charles Laughton · John Mills · Brenda De Banzie · Daphne Anderson

Plot David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Emma Thompson · Anthony Hopkins · Samuel West · Helena Bonham Carter

Plot The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), a modest woman of little means who will soon be forced...

Direction Mat Kirkby

Cast Sally Hawkins · Jim Broadbent · Edward Hogg · Prunella Scales

Plot 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...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast James Fox · David Calder · Geoffrey Palmer · Prunella Scales

Plot A dramatization of the true story of Sir Anthony Blunt, curator of Queen Elizabeth II's art collection until he confessed in 1964 to being a Soviet spy.

Direction Chris Menges

Cast William Hurt · Chris Cleary Miles · John Hurt · Jane Horrocks

Plot Academy Award winner William Hurt stars in and Chris Menges ("A World Apart") directs this story of a lonely postmaster in a quiet village who sees life’s precious moments passing...

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Bob Hoskins · Maggie Smith · Wendy Hiller · Marie Kean

Plot She falls in love with a broken down former NYC hotel doorman, who tells Judith vaguely that he was in the hotel business.

Direction Charles Palmer

Cast Julia McKenzie · Rose Heiney · Laura Haddock · Kenneth Cranham

Plot A detestable businessman is murdered while at work, and a handful of rye is found in his pockets. Soon after, members of his household fall victim to a killer intent...

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Alun Armstrong · Blake Ritson · William Mannering

Plot 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 of the Enigma...

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Bernard Hepton · Mark Strong · Samantha Bond

Plot Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to...

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Jack Nicholson · Michelle Pfeiffer · James Spader · Kate Nelligan

Plot Worn down and out of luck, mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and...

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Peter Sellers · Dany Robin · Margaret Leighton · John Fraser

Plot This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster:...

Direction Gary Sinyor

Cast Peter Ustinov · Prunella Scales · Georgina Cates · Samuel West

Plot This irresistibly sexy comedy tells the outrageous story of a beautiful girl and her unlikely romantic awakening! Pretty young Emily has just reached the ripe old marrying age of 22,...

Direction Giles Foster

Cast Tyler Butterworth · Jonathan Pryce · Freddie Jones · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot A tragic mishap at a chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets. The problem is that they want more!

Direction Paul Morrissey

Cast Peter Cook · Dudley Moore · Kenneth Williams · Terry-Thomas

Plot A Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Hopkins · Jenny Seagrove · Richard Briers

Plot A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening...

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman · Georgina Cates · Alun Armstrong

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Faye Dunaway · Alan Bates · John Gielgud · Denholm Elliott

Plot 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, but despite her...

Direction Robin Nash

Cast Richard Briers · Prunella Scales · Edward de Souza · Geoffrey Sumner

Plot TV Series (1961-1966). 5 seasons. 44 episodes.

Direction William Nicholson · Judy Jackson · Hugh David · Nikki Stockley

Cast Peter France · Joan Bakewell · Spike Milligan · Jeremy Paxman

Plot Everyman is a British television documentary series that aired on BBC One in a late-night slot on Sunday evenings between 1977 and 2000. Its subject matter tended to be focused...