Paul Scofield

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David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (born 21 January 1922 in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex) is an English actor of stage and screen.

He began his stage career in 1940, and was soon being compared with Laurence Olivier. He has won several awards for his stage appearances, including a Tony for the original stage version of A Man for All Seasons (1966 film), and was Salieri in the original stage production of Amadeus in 1979.

Scofield won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966), a part for which he also won a Tony Award. He played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's 1977 production for the Royal National Theatre.

In 1994 he starred in Quiz Show, a film directed by Robert Redford about the quiz show scandal in the United States in the 1950s. Scofield played Mark Van Doren, father of Charles Van Doren, the man at the center of the scandal, and received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He has rejected the offer of a knighthood on three occasions, but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001.

Scofield is also a voice actor and narrated a radio version of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia which was put out by Focus on the Family.

[edit] Films

The Crucible (1996) .... Judge Thomas Danforth
Quiz Show (1994) .... Mark Van Doren
Utz (1992) .... Doctor Vaclav Orlik
Hamlet (1990/I) .... The Ghost
Henry V (1989) .... French King Charles VI
When the Whales Came (1989) .... The Birdman
1919 (1985) .... Alexander Scherbatov
Summer Lightning (1984) .... Old Robert Clarke
Ill Fares the Land (1983) (voice)
A Delicate Balance (1973) .... Tobias
Scorpio (1973) .... Sergei Zharkov
King Lear (1971) .... King Lear
Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (1970) .... Sergei Diaghilev
Bartleby (1970/I) .... The Accountant
Tell Me Lies (1968)
A Man for All Seasons (1966) .... Sir Thomas More
The Train (1964) .... Col. von Waldheim
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) .... Tony Fraser
That Lady (1955) .... King Philip II of Spain

[edit] Trivia

Mel Gibson once compared working with Scofield on Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet to being "thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson."

[edit] External links

Paul Scofield at the Internet Movie Database
[1] Paul Scofield Websites via Filmbug

Preceded by: Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou	Academy Award for Best Actor 1966 for A Man for All Seasons	Succeeded by: Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night